Over the last two decades, the attorneys general of the individual states have aggressively reasserted their longstanding – but mostly dormant – power to regulate charities and charitable trusts within their borders.
Leading the pack is the Office of the
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Snapshot Summary: Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2024
“Nine years ago, the idea that charities could fall victim to fraud was met with disbelief. The term ‘fraud’ had to be used cautiously, and the notion that charities were targeted seemed far-fetched.”
At last week’s 9th annual Charity Fraud…
Nonprofit Newsrooms and Charity Oversight (Part One)
It was one of our most popular blog posts from 2023: Some Charity Fraud With Your Hot Dog, Sir? (September 1, 2023).
There was a scandal at Petco Park, breaking in headlines in the award-winning Voice of San Diego,…
Hot Dogs, Charity Oversight, Nonprofit News, and Democracy
You’re invited on a small road trip with us over the next few posts.
The journey begins at Point A with an October 2024 update to one of our most popular posts from last year: Some Charity Fraud With Your …
Nonprofits, The Election, and Burnout on Steroids
“What we know is this: much of our work just became simultaneously more difficult and more important than ever.”
Those were the first public comments by Geoff Green, the CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits) on the uncertainties…
Nonprofit Burnout Crisis: Innovative Remedies Needed
Before the pandemic, “burnout” was already a major worry for the nonprofit sector. But the COVID-19 years brought an avalanche of chaos and uncertainty along with financial and operational strains as the nation’s 501(c)(3)s answered the call for extraordinary relief…
Charitable Crowdfunding: An Alert for “Recipient Charities”
The landmark 2021 California law on charitable crowdfunding – Assembly Bill 488 – is now fully in force and effect. The final administrative regulations were published in April 2024. Deadline extensions and grace periods for the all-new registration obligations have…
More Tenth-Anniversary FPLG Blog Favorites
“Admit it. You’ve done it….”
That’s the opening sentence of Breach of Duty by Ogling the Doughnuts (October 8, 2014). It’s a lighthearted take on a serious topic; that is, the effective and proper role of the directors of a…
The 2024 BDO Nonprofit Benchmarking Survey Is Out
“How does my organization measure up?”
In 2017, when the experts at BDO Institute for Nonprofit Excellence created and conducted the first of its annual benchmarking surveys, they explained that this question was the one most often posed to…
Government-Contract Reform for Nonprofits: What’s Next?
For many decades, “all levels of government have been entering written agreements with charitable nonprofits to deliver a broad array of services to the public.” It can be a win-win arrangement. Governments have legal obligations or have adopted public-policy goals…