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…”
A nonprofit housing developer and a nonprofit arts organization have joined forces to animate a new apartment complex in Harlem that will open this fall. This project illustrates the trend toward “building in” arts experiences when public housing and neighborhood revitalization projects are undertaken, and an even broader trend to invite artists into the conversation about solving social issues.
The protestors in Murrieta, California who forced buses of unaccompanied immigrant children to turn back represented the worst of America—an ugly expression of nativism that should embarrass all of us who are the children, grandchildren, and descendants of immigrants ourselves. Nonprofits and faith-based groups are helping these kids, but the solution is comprehensive immigration reform—now.
A number of municipalities have eliminated no-protest buffer zones at clinics providing abortions after the Supreme Court decision disallowing such a zone in Boston.
Conditions have always been difficult in Gaza, where supplies barely if ever get through crossings controlled by Israeli and Egyptian authorities. Now, with daily bombardments, the humanitarian aid challenge in Gaza is deeper and more difficult.
What is this new breed of billionaire? Coming up from nothing, these two self-made men, one from the UK and one from China, will leave it all to charity and no fortune to their families.
As with any major growth, the expansion of community health centers is challenging and creates some opportunity for failure.