People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been fighting to have Tilikum orca released from SeaWorld in Orlando since 1998. This article, reprinted from NTEN: Change, examines how PETA has pursued this goal, including using the CNN documentary Blackfish as a springboard.
A lot of people ask me what factors they should consider when deciding which charities to support. It’s a tough question. And an important one. So I turned to one of the experts.
A Newsweek cover story examined the dramatic tale of sex slavery activist Somaly Mam and found it to be in some part untrue. What will happen to the foundation named for her, which she has now left, and when will philanthropy realize that cults of personality may not be serving it well?
The 58 public schools in the New Orleans Recovery School District are now 100-percent charter schools. Is this good, bad, or just an anomaly due to the fact that the public school system was given huge infusions of federal money before being wiped out by Hurricane Katrina?
If Donald and Shelley Sterling get to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, they will have enriched themselves immensely as a result of Donald’s racist rant to V. Stiviano. The increased vastly increased value of the Clippers suggests that the value of all other professional sports franchises will surge as well. This increase in wealth should not be pocketed but given by the owners to a fund to fight racism, whether that of the Sterling family or the overt and covert racism unfortunately still endemic in our society.
NPQ is excited about the alternative enterprises popping up all over the country. In this case, it is a grocery sponsored by two churches and aided by a Whole Foods market.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has quietly cut its investment in the massive British security firm, G4S. This might be a victory for one of the divestment movements currently on the national stage.
Following on the heels of Florida and Colorado, California may be the latest state to move towards funding a regulatory environment sufficient to effectively respond to charity scams and other needs of nonprofits.
This article compares two different stories of social enterprise— the heroic and the “small batch”—and outlines the different values that they represent.
If you doubted that Eric Shinseki was not going to survive the current crisis of fraudulent waiting lists at VA hospitals in Phoenix, San Antonio, and most recently Pittsburgh, you weren’t paying attention. But axing Shinseki, albeit clearly warranted, doesn’t solve the VA’s systemic problems—and that’s where the nonprofit community should be pitching in.
To address the gaps between boys and young men of color compared to their non-minority counterparts in education, employment, health, and crime, the White House released the interim results of its My Brother’s Keeper initiative. It’s no surprise to us that the recommendations are just about all suggestions for replicating and expanding programs that have long been known and well tested, but in almost all cases, the recommended solutions will depend on private commitments by U.S. foundations, not on new federal funding.
Gift museums at tragedy memorials must choose their wares very carefully. The 9/11 Museum has admitted that it needs advice and counsel from those whose sensitivities are most at risk.