We’re pretty sure that billionaires like one another’s company and bump into each other on occasion at fancy resorts with delicious food. Recently, at just such a place, the Koch brothers convened billionaires with shared interests to explore what they might do to guide the nation toward their view of what the United States should do in economics and politics.

Big grants are definitely getting bigger, what with all the billionaires running around—and the goals for capital campaigns are getting much bigger, too.

It is very difficult to find examples of people in responsibility actually taking responsibility for the crises and failures of the organizations they lead. In the wake of the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Mary Barra’s recent announcement of the results of an internal probe of automobile recall problems at General Motors, it may be appropriate to ask where the buck stops in those large entities—and in our own.

Many nonprofit cultural institutions operate in facilities owned by municipal governments, but generally with board and staff leadership independent from the city itself. At North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the lines between board governance and city management have become blurred—really blurred—to the point where an article in the New York Times described the situation as being almost surreal.

Unions raise objections as legislation for a pilot social impact bond program is considered by a Rhode Island Senate committee.

A ballot initiative that would have limited the compensation of executives at nonprofit hospitals has failed to qualify for the November ballot. It’s an issue that has garnered attention recently with public disclosure of some of the huge compensation packages given CEOs of large medical centers.

The Pentagon is supporting research on the causes of and solutions to domestic unrest; it views social protest—which nonprofits see as essential to healthy civil society—as destabilizing.

What, if any effect, do mega-sized capital campaigns in cities like Cleveland have on the local giving economy?

Déjà vu in Idaho—The veterinary association is voting to try to restrict nonprofit animal clinics.

The North Georgia Electric Membership Corp., which serves seven counties, has a program that rounds all electrical bills up to the next dollar. In March, it “opted in” all of its customers. Not all of them are happy with the cooperative’s  giving scheme.

If a recent forecast holds true, many additional jobs will open up in personal care type professions. These are fields where nonprofits are often very competitive and known for their quality. But they are also fields in which salaries tend to be low. Can the nonprofit sector try to get ahead of the trend by ensuring that they offer living wages and excellent working conditions?

Homeless people are increasingly using social media.