by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Taiwan took to heart its hard-earned lessons from the SARS outbreak and is now one of the success stories in the struggle against COVID-19. Beth Duff-Brown writes for Stanford Health Policy: Stanford Health Policy’s Jason Wang, MD, PhD, an associate professor of...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
The open sharing of data on the internet and the quick collective response of scientists all over the globe have revolutionized the way we now contend with the threat of pandemics. Shelly Fan filed this report for Singularity Hub: A virus’s genetic blueprint is the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Big money talks very loudly. That is why states should demand more information from nonprofits about their biggest donors. Marian Conway filed this report for The NonProfit Quarterly: The question of whether a large donor will attempt to influence how the organization...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
A smaller and weaker Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has led to weaker oversight and more attempts at using nonprofits for fraudulent purposes. Karen Hensel and Douglas Moser filed this report for NBC Boston: “It’s definitely a problem that could get worse, and that is...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
The Sacklers (of OxyContin fame), disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, and the financier Jeffrey Epstein were all big donors to nonprofits. How do we deal with the problem of ‘tainted donors’ going forward? Michael Moody and Michael Pratt filed this report for...
