The Montreal Gazette has run an article describing the hidden homelessness that exists in suburban Montreal. In Quebec, at least, the major political parties actually discuss how to address homelessness, something that U.S. political parties shy away from.

What kinds of employees do we really want in the nonprofit sector? With all our talk of a need for “leaderful organizations,” there are fewer discussions of what that really requires, though there is at least a half-century of literature and practice on the subject. And guess what? A good deal of it emerged from the same theoretical base as cybernetics, often mixed with some feminist theory. But shifting away from the dominant paradigm of command and control requires a culture shift for many. Here is one take to help inform.

What exactly are L3Cs, how are they currently operating, and what potential problems do they pose for the nonprofit sector?

Will the benefits of an exclusive portal and nonprofit directory be sufficient to persuade Australian nonprofits to sign up for an .ngo domain?

Despite the activism of students around the nation and the often progressive environmental positions taken by Jewish groups, many mainstream Jewish organizations are steering clear of the fossil fuels divestment campaign for fear that it legitimizes divestment as a tool that might be applied more aggressively to Israel.

How should stakeholders and market position be addressed differently in this new operating environment?

The Navajo Nation believes that part of San Juan County, Utah should be preserved for all time as a national conservation area or a national monument. They are opposed by Utah politicians such as Senator Orrin Hatch who think that preserving those lands would be federal overreach.

In a deal between the city and a newly formed nonprofit, Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore is once again open for the public, despite having looked its demise in the face more than once!

For parents, and for civil rights overall, the federal government’s release of colleges and universities under investigation for their sexual assault policies is important, but is it also a long-needed step by the Obama administration toward governmental transparency, albeit much too late in the Obama presidency?

In this article, Buzz Schmidt suggests to Stanford that divesting from negative investments, as they have with fossil fuels, while good, is insufficient. Institutions also need to take up the net positive contribution to society made by their investment strategies.

Here, the author explains that a hybrid media system is replacing the media logics of the past, and uses the U.K. citizens’ movement 38 Degrees to illustrate. 

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This article looks at the Internet’s effect on American political organizations and outlines how changes in information technology have transformed their “organizational layer.”