Boy Scouts Approve Change To Membership Policy
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has voted to allow openly gay youth members but a ban remains in place on openly gay adult leaders. The resolution passed by a 61-38 percent margin among the 1,400 voting members. The policy change will take effect Jan. 1, 2014 and a task force will aid in the implem… Read More »
IRS Official Pleads The 5th
Lois Lerner, director of the Exempt Organizations Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), invoked her 5th Amendment right not to testify but denied any wrongdoing in a statement to the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform this morning. "I have not done anything wrong," she s… Read More »
Disaster Relief Groups Respond For Oklahoma
Disaster relief organizations around the country are deploying resources to Moore, Okla., after the city was devastated by a two-mile wide tornado, killing a reported 24 people so far and felling two elementary schools and a hospital. Initial estimates of as many as 51 dead included some who were co… Read More »
Foundations Not Making Many Program-Related Investments
Despite growing interest and rising awareness, foundations have generally been slow to adopt program-related investments (PRIs) as vehicles for charitable purposes. During the past two decades, less than one percent of U.S. foundations made PRIs each year, according to a new report from the Indiana … Read More »
American Lung Cuts One-Third Of Staff
The American Lung Association (ALA) has eliminated 24 positions from its national staff of 71. The cuts come in an effort to shore up a $4 million operating deficit from the Washington, D.C.-based organization’s $55 million 2013 budget. Positions have been eliminated in the ALA’s Washington, D.C… Read More »
IRS Chief Forced To Quit After Targeting Tax-Exempts
Internal Revenue Service Interim Commissioner Steven Miller, who at one time headed the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division, resigned when asked to step down by U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. He will leave the job next month. The resignation comes just days after it became public that the I… Read More »
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