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Subject: Nonprofits and NGOs

  • The Vice Hotel

    October 10, 2007
  • Report Warns S.F. Nonprofits Could Wither and Die Due to Lack of Funding. S.F. Organization That Wrote Report Withers and Dies Due to Lack of Funding.

    Now this is ironic!Those looking for an example of irony not involving diabetics being flattened by insulin trucks will be disappointed. No, it was not an example of irony when the city's Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management released a hefty report warning that the San Francisco's nonprofits are in extreme danger of shutting down due to lack of funding -- and then, almost immediately, shut down due to lack of funding. We can't think of words describing this course of events other than

    July 23, 2009
  • Adjust Your Television

    August 12, 2009
  • Prison Legal News Suing San Francisco, Sheriff's Department, and City Attorney Over Unanswered Public Records Request

    So much for the Sunshine Ordinance...​ The public records request was not very complicated. Prison Legal News (PLN), a Seattle-based nonprofit and monthly journal, wanted to review all the litigation filed against the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, including settlements and verdicts. PLN filed the records request with the Sheriff's Department on July 9, 2008, but was made to redirect its efforts to the city attorney's office, which finally produced a spreadsheet of 722 cases fiv

    August 20, 2009
  • Organ Donor Network Thankful Bay Bridge Woes Didn't Force Them To Leave Hearts in San Francisco

    'I left my heart, in San Francisco. High on a hill, it calls to me...'​The Bay Bridge's long weekend closure -- which could have been longer -- may have killed your commute. The people at California Transplant Donor Network, meanwhile, are thankful, however, that it didn't literally kill someone. The non-profit's community affairs supervisor, Cathy Olmo, told SF Weekly that the span's closure was not a factor -- they didn't need to hustle any organ into or out of the city in the past few days.

    September 8, 2009
  • Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

    cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit in communal tables in the rarely-seen upper floor of the Ferry Building; each will enjoy a different four-course meal cooked by a dream team of local chefs. Some notables in a long list of participatin

    September 10, 2009
  • List: Saving journalism

    October 7, 2009
  • The Bridge School Benefit

    October 21, 2009