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Erickson Retirement Communities, one of the biggest retirement community developers in the country, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Reuters has more: LLC, a U.S. retirement community developer, filed for Chapter 11… Read more

PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher after witnessing him murder a fly on CNBC earlier this week. Sky News has more: Peta spokesman Bruce Friedrich said: “We support compassion even for the most curious,… Read more

I joined the board of a large non-profit this year and we recently spent several hours on planning for our year at the helm. Once we’d hammered out what we thought was a pretty near perfect vision and plan for the organization, a former board… Read more

Found this odd claim reported in the Christian Science Monitor: In San Diego, mobile users pay more than $3 per minute on average. The Utility Consumers’ Action Network surveyed 700 cellphone users and found that the average cellphone bill… Read more

It’s IHOP Pancake Day 2009, and what better way to celebrate free food than to feel guilty if you don’t pay for it? ABC has details on the event: It’s National Pancake Day and to celebrate, free pancakes will be handed out all over the… Read more

This Consumer Warning Network interview let people in on a trick that helps them forestall foreclosure. The recipe is simple: Just ask the bank to show you the original mortgage papers. In light of exotic transactions, banks can be remarkably slow… Read more

The government really nails it with sex offender awareness. Family Watchdog is a new website allowing users to find sex offenders in their neighborhoods via an easy-to-execute map search. Note: the website is Familywatchdog.us, NOT… Read more

This is actually a nonprofit, but it’s interesting to think about the ramifications of running a business that helps people die: Switzerland, in a law dating back to 1942, permits foreigners to come and kill themselves, placing few… Read more

We all seem to be broke these days. Why would anyone in their right mind want to donate money during a financial crisis? Easy. Because the person you’re donating to feels the economic crisis, too. The difference is that while you may lose… Read more

Homelessness in the United States has always struck me as particularly painful. Penury is not well tolerated in the Land of Opportunity. People think money is easy to come by here, giving extreme poverty an especially powerful stigma. In… Read more

Today is Blog Action Day 2008. Here at Business Pundit, we’re joining thousands of bloggers using this special day to talk about one topic: Poverty. So. Ahem. Here’s my chance to launch a kickin’ day of poverty discussion, and what do I find… Read more

He advocates social networking for hospitals. Coupling Google Answers with layoffs. Creating purple elephants to fix healthcare. Phil Baumann, a former finance professional who now works as a nurse and a blogger, is a masterful observer of… Read more

Thanks to Sean Hackbarth for pointing out the existence of the Foundation For Economic Education to me. Given the current lack of economic education of most citizens, I think it is important to have organizations like this to help correct the… Read more

Here is an interesting piece about running a non-profit organization. To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission… Read more