Innovative Refugee Program on the Air
KPBS put together a nice piece recently on a program in City Heights that helps Somali and other refugee women get licensed to become home daycare providers. Many refugee women arrive in San Diego...
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How Drug Dealers Help Nonprofits: Fact Check
Statement: “I also provide funding to many nonprofit organizations by taking money from drug dealers and seizing their assets and giving it back to the nonprofits,” District Attorney and mayoral...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Holding Nonprofits Accountable
How can we be sure dollars donated to charities actually go toward helping the causes intended? For that matter, how do we even know the charities are registered nonprofits? In this San Diego...
View ArticleHow the Recall Filner Effort Landed a Women Vets Group in the Hot Seat
Tara Jones, who leads the National Women Veterans Association of America, made a dramatic about-face during the sexual harassment scandal that took down Bob Filner’s mayorship. She went from leading a...
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SD Unified on Shaky Ground With School Foundations
If you’re a parent whose child attends Jerabek Elementary, a public school in Scripps Ranch, you’ll be asked to donate $1,000 every year to the school’s nonprofit foundation to help pay for librarians,...
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The Catch-22 That Did in the San Diego Opera
Many in the city were shocked and saddened with the announcement that the San Diego Opera would close in June this year. The San Diego Opera was created more than 49 years ago and has flourished to...
View Article5 Things to Know About School Foundations
A few weeks ago I set out to answer some basic questions about school foundations: What they are, how much money they raise, whether they’re assets or liabilities to San Diego Unified. These nonprofit...
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What We Know – and Want to Know – About San Diego’s Nonprofit Landscape
Nonprofits play a major role in our lives. They treat us when we’re sick, serve the poor, run our kids’ soccer leagues and yes, even write stories like this one. Yet few of us are closely tracking San...
View ArticleStudents and Patients Benefit the Most From San Diego’s Biggest Nonprofits
San Diego nonprofits employ less than 10 percent of the regional workforce. But the biggest ones serve some of the most important functions in our lives. Health care and education nonprofits – which...
View ArticleSan Diego Nonprofits Go to Work for the Government
San Diego nonprofits aren’t just serving causes. Many also work for the government. Dozens of San Diego nonprofits hold contracts with city, county and state entities, sometimes taking on gigs you’d...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: How San Diego Ended Up With Two Food Banks
Those who want to help feed our city’s hungry find themselves forced to choose between two major food banks: the San Diego Food Bank and Feeding America San Diego. Both organizations claim to be...
View ArticleFederal Changes Push Nonprofits to Transition From Transitional Housing
San Diego nonprofits running federally subsidized transitional housing programs for the homeless are getting a clear message: Switch to a new model or risk losing cash. Now many nonprofits are rushing...
View Article2-1-1 San Diego Wants to Become a Nerve Center for Nonprofits
When storms or wildfires hit San Diego, the message from politicians and TV announcers is clear: Call 2-1-1 San Diego for help. But the nonprofit best known for disaster response has a broader mission....
View ArticleMinimum Wage Hike Puts Nonprofits in an Awkward Position
Many businesses upset by the new minimum wage hike have a standard warning: We’ll have to raise prices to make it work. But that’s not an option for most San Diego nonprofits. They’ll either need to...
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Even in a Space for Cash-Strapped Arts Groups, the Rent Is Too Damn High
Alan Ziter’s been in San Diego long enough to see the process play out in neighborhoods across the city: Artists move into an affordable neighborhood, making it cool and eventually, unaffordable. He...
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