Combining a mutual love of science, innovation, and early twentieth-century inventor Nikola Tesla, technology magnate and billionaire Elon Musk has responded to an appeal from web artist Matthew Inman and agreed to donate a million dollars toward the creation of a museum honoring the early twentieth-century inventor.
There is a long and brutal history of overinstitutionalization in the United States, but we know that deinstitutionalization without a strong investment in proper community supports has had its own terrible effects. So what do we do now?
Famed cyclist and survivor Lance Armstrong says he wants to honor his commitment to fight cancer, and if Livestrong doesn’t want his efforts, he may strike out to start another charity on his own.
The involvement of Crossroads Rhode Island into Gina Raimondo’s campaign to become governor raises questions about IRS prohibitions against 501(c)3 nonprofits supporting candidates for partisan public office.
Detroit’s Department of Water and Sewerage seems to have had a disproportionate share of problems—problematic billing, leaking water pipes, inadequate communications with customers, etc.—leading up to the current crisis of nearly indiscriminate shutoffs of residential water customers. Some observers speculate that Detroit Water’s sudden “get-tough” policy toward delinquent customers is really a precursor for readying the public utility for sale to a private entity.
This story exhibits the value of a well-designed responsive network.
In charter schools in Arizona, you can teach about religion but you can’t teach religion per se. Does making required reading of Tea Party-favored theologian Cleon Skousen constitute teaching the historic role of religion in the motivations of America’s founders, or an effort by the Heritage Academy to indoctrinate students into the theology of America as a divinely inspired “Christian nation?”
Human Rights Watch warns that Egypt’s civil society is being threatened by laws that open up nongovernmental organizations to excesses of government control.
YMCAs continue to fend off challenges to their tax-exempt status—this time, in Idaho.
NPQ has written a lot over the years about the value of engagement in the development of programs that creatively meet the needs of a community. In this story, employee and resident engagement are central to the program model.
Events in Detroit’s bankruptcy dynamic Increasingly look like a civil rights crisis. The Detroit Water Brigade and others have taken to civil disobedience to stop the water shutoffs on tens of thousands of poor residential customers.
Some conversations about nonprofits seem to have a life of their own, like the one about whether it is better for nonprofits to diversify their income bases or not. The answer is, “It depends…”