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Aaron Tanaka, director of the Center for Economic Democracy and cofounder of the Boston Ujima Project, describes a new approach for economic development centered on the concept of “social justice enterprise,” which seeks to create a more just society by following “three pillars”: stakeholder ownership and control; social impact and community benefit; and worker and community power.
Facing a backlash for the recent reveal that its foundation is still funding nonprofits that discriminate against LGBTQ persons, Chick-fil-A’s foundation has refined its explanation, saying its giving is part of “a much higher calling.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launches a 30-member Postsecondary Value Commission to assess the value of education after high school.
A black billionaire gives recent Morehouse graduates an education debt-free start, something we should all have.
The New Plastics Economy initiative has set concrete goals, including making all plastic packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.
It took a little longer, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has joined other museums in saying it will no longer accept donations from Sackler family members who profited from the production of the opioid OxyContin.
Giridharadas’s new op-ed aims at nonprofits that take blood money. They should see their broader societal role in upholding a system where one can still buy redemption for massive corporate evildoing through philanthropic pursuits.
Even as many nonprofit organizations long to professionalize, some, driven by shared identity, take off and grow quickly and exponentially on the power of their members.
A narrative has taken hold that threatens to rob advocates of one of their most powerful tools for effecting change. At stake is the reputation of an entire class of nonprofits—501c4s.
Americans in 2017 amassed $88 billion in additional debt to pay medical costs. To date, RIP Medical Debt has relieved 200,000 people of their past-due debts, to the tune of around $700 million.
We Build the Wall has not yet done so, despite some otherworldly promises made earlier this year.
