While some are temporarily halting all donations to political campaigns, the approach is not uniform, with others focusing efforts on the members of Congress who voted in favor of objecting to the election results. Meanwhile, after years of inaction, all the major social media and tech platforms...
A Nonprofit Corporation may be prohibited from engaging in certain activities, including participating in political campaigns and substantial engagement in lobbying activities. Nonprofits can own assets and generate income (usually in the form of donations or grants) and they can take out loans, but ...
But we must also be practical. For 7 years we have not asked for any donations, and have built this project with our own funds as we grew. We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent. So we have just i...
Meanwhile, the wealthy have used their wealth and influence to ensure the passage of laws like “Citizens United”; which effectively gives corporations the rights of people and allows them to donate as much as they want to the individuals and political parties they favor. And the size of thos...
We also found that the four investors did not vote against any of the four proposals put forward by the board of directors of the two Western Europe-based corporations – Nestlé and Unilever – relating to increasing shareholder payouts and approving political donations and lobbying expenditure. ...
Firms sometimes receive criticisms for conveying a positive image to the market and stakeholders through programs of donations regardless of changing operations internally, which is considered material changes (see, Marquis & Qian, 2014; Wickert et al., 2016). Such initiatives can come from firms’...