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Frank Sietzen: A lesson to nonprofits with federal funds: Diversify
- We don’t usually think of nonprofits as depending on federal funds, but many local charities count on federal monies to accomplish their missions. Like any sole-source operation, these groups can be imperiled by changes in federal policy, personnel shifts or tightening federal budgets.
Frank Sietzen: Local effort keeps charity giving close to home
- A new project called In Your Backyard helps local donors find and support charities working on issues in the immediate D.C. area.
Frank Sietzen: Nonprofits commit to change at first national meeting
- Sometimes it sounded like a church meeting. Other times it took on the quality of a college seminar with students cramming for midterm exams. But at the end of the first-ever national Nonprofit Congress last week, what delegates really discovered was the power of group commitment.
Frank Sietzen: Nonprofit Congress opens today
- Hundreds of nonprofit leaders from across the country are gathering today in Washington at the first national meeting to establish a coordinated plan for action across the country.
Frank Sietzen: How children can help the homeless
- Local nonprofits are enlisting children in the fight against the twin scourges of hunger and homelessness. Food for Others, one of the region’s largest providers of free food to the area’s needy and bulk food for homeless programs, is particularly innovative in finding roles for young people. Many families bring all their members to work in the organization’s programs.
Frank Sietzen: Transforming the Girl Scouts
- The Girl Scouts of America is planning a makeover aimed at keeping the organization relevant to today’s young women while staying true to the group’s guiding principles.
Frank Sietzen: Nonprofit scorecard: U.S. health care flunks
- A first-ever detailed scoring of the U.S. health care system shows serious deficiencies in most critical areas of care, with an overall rating of just 66 out of a possible 100.
Frank Sietzen: Health care sector works to match region’s diversity
- The D.C. region’s top business and nonprofit leaders have pledged new support for improving the diversity of the area’s health care work force. The coordinated effort began last week following the release of a new report by the Consumer Health Foundation that highlighted
Frank Sietzen: Sept. 11 survivor’s fund to end operations in 2008
- Five years after terrorists struck the Pentagon and World Trade Center, a fund established to help those affected by the attack continues to provide millions in aid — but managers have started planning to phase out its activities. Having helped more than 1,000 people and dispensed nearly 80 percent of the $24 million raised to help victims recover, the Survivor’s Fund will end its operations on March 31, 2008.
Frank Sietzen: Obesity epidemic straining Medicare, hospitals
- With plans to cut Medicare reimbursement looming on the horizon, the area’s mostly nonprofit hospitals — which serve more and more elderly patients dependent on Medicare for their health coverage — are looking closely at what is driving rising health care costs.
Frank Sietzen: Nonprofits rally around senior protection bill
- A bill protecting elderly Americans from violence in nursing homes was passed by a Senate committee at the last minute, thanks in part to a coalition of nonprofit groups.
Frank Sietzen: President Bush poised to sign new charity law
- President Bush is expected to sign into law this week the largest group of new charitable-giving provisions in decades. The changes are contained in the pension bill, H.R. 4, which passed in the last days before the House and Senate adjourned for the summer.
Frank Sietzen: Medicare reimbursement plan could hurt hospitals
- A new plan by the Bush administration to lower the Medicare payments for medical procedures may throw the pricing structure of the region’s nonprofit hospitals into turmoil and drive up health care costs for everyone else.