In a rare interview with Forbes, Carrie Walton Penner reveals “a clear vision of the charter school movement over the next five years and her place in it.”
Carrie Walton Penner’s Agenda for Education Reform through Walton Philanthropy
Rockefeller Foundation Awards 2nd Round of Resilient Cities Winners
It’s a public-private partnership that provides philanthropic support to cities so they can prepare for crises and manmade and natural disasters.
“Property of” No More: Nonprofits Help Sex Traffic Survivors Remove Markings
Survivors look to tattoo artists and nonprofits to help them regain their bodies by covering tattoos branded by the pimps and gangs that sold them.
The Bright Continent: Rethinking Modern Africa
Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade spent two years traveling to seventeen nations across sub-Saharan Africa. In her new book The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa, she comes away with a decidedly promising view of the continent.
Teach for America at 25 and the Movement to Privatize Schools
The ideology of TFA appears ensconced in the education reform movement toward public school privatization.
A Very Young Library Advocate and Public Speaking 101
Trying out her oratory skills, this eight-year-old is a model for thoughtful yet passionate advocacy.
Creative Commons Will Issue 1 Billionth License in 2015
NPQ wants its readers to be more loudly proud of the fact that many entities defining our new era are nonprofit, including Creative Commons.
Texas Set to Execute Mentally Ill Inmate Scott Panetti Tonight
Unless Governor Rick Perry intervenes, Texas will likely execute Scott Panetti, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 30 years ago.
James “Not a ‘Conventional’ Racist” Watson Auctioning off His Nobel Prize
If Nobel Prize winner James Watson offers you some money from the sale of his medallion, you may wish to think twice about accepting it.
Can Recidivism Rates Be Lowered through Internet Coding?
A San Francisco nonprofit teaches San Quentin inmates how to code in order to prepare them for future employment.
NFL Rams’ “Hands Up” Gesture Draws Ire of St. Louis Police Assoc. Rep
The call to discipline the Rams for their Ferguson-related gesture on Sunday night shows ignorance of, or contempt for, the First Amendment.
#HandsUpWalkOut Protests Sweep College campuses on Rosa Parks’ Arrest Anniversary
Yesterday, for the 59th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest, hundreds of thousands of students and workers walked out of their homes, schools, and office buildings in protest to support Ferguson.