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3 Types of Nonprofit Fraud to Watch Out for Today

The Charity CFO

Feeding Our Future received funding from the United States Department of Agriculture through the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program—money intended to provide meals to children. Billing fraud typically happens when services are paid for by funders but not delivered. .

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What the Growth in the Nonprofit Sector Means for You

NonProfit Hub

When treated as a single “industry,” nonprofits are the third largest workforce in America, behind retail and food services, employing 12.3 As you read, keep in mind that some data may have changed, and continue to do research as new studies are released! Let’s first look at the sheer mass of the sector. million people in 2016.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

15 Local governments, developers, and universities reap economic rewards by dressing up spaces of academic/industry collaboration in a mix of luxury housing, storefronts, classrooms, and laboratories. I talked about how that food could be easily repackaged into healthy meals for communities in need.

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

The gathering space, a room located in the front of Nubian Market’s building and within its food service court, is key to this work. Meeting community needs is about more than providing goods and services. Gathering spaces build relationships. After raising $4.5 million.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

With the WORK Act, tens of millions of dollars in government resources will be disbursed to employee-ownership centers around the country, fundamentally changing the playing field for worker-owners, freelancers, and cooperative innovators. Each win, whether federal or local, unleashed consequential benefits.