Next month, 100 elementary and middle schools will pilot a new national arts standards education project as an edit to the Common Core standards.
100 Schools to Pilot Core Curriculum for the Arts
North Carolina Nonprofits in a Fight for Continued Sales Tax Rebate
The effort demonstrates the importance of nonprofit leaders taking a proactive advocacy stand to prevent politicians from enacting harmful legislation that could impair their mission delivery.
Closure of 3 Israeli-Arab Groups: Social Action or Terrorism?
In the heat of the ongoing conflict between Muslims and Jews over the Temple Mount, the actions of Israel’s Security Forces sharpen a difficult question.
Nonprofits and Cuba: Past and Future
Nonprofits have doggedly laid the groundwork for normalization with Cuba for many decades. What must happen next?
“Too Many Notes” Nonprofit Style
I hate hearing people blow off about there being too many nonprofits. It’s like saying there are too many small businesses.
How White Nonprofit Leaders Can Advance Diversity
Despite the data, many whites have difficulty accepting the challenges people of color still face in our nation and thus they are unable to be change agents.
Challenges to “Je Suis Charlie” Debated at Al Jazeera and Elsewhere
As many as two million people marched in Paris to honor and support the editors, writers, and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo who were killed by terrorists. Still, there is an active debate about the value of Charlie Hebdo’s version of speech.
A Now-Familiar Cascade of Problems Precedes Closure of LGBT Center
One of the first LGBT centers in the country has closed, and the road to that closure seems very familiar.
Anonymous Donor Buys Stockton Police Body Cameras, But…
Many police departments around the country are considering the use of police body cameras, but in Stockton, a donor will make it happen.
Harry Potter Scores Victory over Child Slavery—Through Advocacy, not Wizardry
The values of Albus Dumbledore that served Harry Potter well at Hogwarts are employed in the cause of fairness and social justice by the Harry Potter Alliance among us Muggles.
Nonprofit Legal Advocates File Suit for 11 Foster Children
In South Carolina, eleven foster children are listed as plaintiffs in a class action suit that claims that children are being endangered by the inadequacies of DSS.
Mississippi Reps Contemplate Designating the Bible as the “State Book”
In Mississippi, the state fish is the largemouth bass, the state butterfly is the spicebush swallowtail, and the state shell is the eastern oyster. Now, two state legislators want to add to the list and make the Bible the state book.