Organization Trends

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Incubation and the Tides Center
The above definitions emphasize fiscal sponsorship as a grassroots, community-level, activity. A different view of the concept comes into focus if one takes a top-down view of it, particularly considering…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Obscuring Finances?
To illustrate some potentially problematic applications of the fiscal sponsorship concept, this report will look at some specific nonprofit organizations that are acting as sponsors on a scale that is…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Improving Transparency
Speaking of the IRS—in 2012, the IRS’s own Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) published a report that recommended changes to the rules governing fiscal sponsorship. The…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

Organization Trends
Chapo Trap House: Socialism That’s Selling
The Daily Wire recently reported StubHub hawking $6 seats for the May 4 showing of “An Evening with the Clintons” in Los Angeles, while Britain’s Daily Mail said…
by Ken Braun on May 14, 2019

Organization Trends
The Moral Majority of the Left?
Is there a “Moral Majority” on the Left? If you ask the pro-abortion activists at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, there is—and they’re preaching “the moral case”…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 8, 2019

Organization Trends
Don’t Trust the Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Old Media
In early 2019, a wave of layoffs hit major media properties. Buzzfeed, McClatchy, Verizon (owner of the Huffington Post), Vice, and Gannett, along with other media outlets, announced over 2,200…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2019

Organization Trends
Don’t Trust the Messenger: Market Failure Workarounds
In light of the decline in mass-market advertising revenue for written media, journalistic enterprises have gone looking for new (or adapted already-existing) business models to stay afloat. Operating a journalistic…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2019

Organization Trends
Don’t Trust the Messenger: Forget Profit
Media projects organized under the nonprofit tax code are not particularly new. Venerable organizations including the conservative magazine Commentary (founded 1945), the labor-left publications In These Times and Mother Jones…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2019

Organization Trends
Don’t Trust the Messenger: The “Right” Reporting?
In conservative media, there is an 800-pound gorilla: Fox News Channel and its corporate stablemate, Fox Business. No other right-of-center media outlet matches its reach: Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2019

Organization Trends
Don’t Trust the Messenger: Room for Improvement
While conservative funders have supported a small stable of nonprofit ideological magazines, a handful of journalism training centers, and some reporting outlets, there are obvious gaps in the conservative media…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2019