On AlterNet: non-profits

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "non-profits"

Strengthening Democracy Means Funding Independent Media

Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. May 3, 2010.

Less than 0.05% of the $307 billion given to charity in 2008 went to non-profit journalism, at a time when news rooms are going extinct.

GOP Rep. Defending America Against Poor Folks Getting Too Political

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 24, 2009.

Hanging her hook on Acorn, natch.

Is the Economic Mess Going to Kill 100,000 Non-Profits?

Eyal Press, The Nation. March 13, 2009.

The intensifying economic crisis is crushing the budgets of vital non-profits across the country, and the consequences are devastating.

Nonprofits in a Time of War

Mark Rosenman, AlterNet. February 5, 2007.

Nonprofits have the responsibility of outrage when government policy creates and exacerbates misery: Charities need to speak up and demand that Congress get Washington's foreign policy and its financial priorities in order.