Winter 2017 Digital Issue

Welcome to the Nonprofit Quarterly’s 2017 Winter digital issue, “Advancing Critical Conversations: How to Get There from Here.”

This issue is structured differently from our usual format. Instead of a collection of features followed by a mix of what we call “department” or “back end” articles, we have prepared three collections of features, meant to illustrate a core component of our work at the Nonprofit Quarterly—that of advancing critical conversations in civil society and among nonprofits and philanthropy. We rarely run an article that is not meant to illuminate a topic and also drive understanding and practice forward in this important sector; but we are foregrounding this practice here, because in the coming year we want to more intentionally orient ourselves around what we can do to cause shifts in practice to occur—to unstick things, so to speak—in the sector’s work.