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.”
As Samuel Beckett put it, “Everything will turn out all right—unless something unforeseen crops up.” That’s why fundraisers need to be ready for any contingencies that might arise. Simone Joyaux shares the lenses she uses to peer into the unknown and prepare for whatever’s on the horizon.
Was the IRS surprised by more than 150,000 comments, almost all scathingly negative, submitted in response to its proposed regulations on the political activities of 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations? Enough so that it has withdrawn its draft rules for a thorough reworking and delayed hearings.
Yesterday, former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates was elected to the presidency of the Boy Scouts of America. The choice of Gates, who was approved by the board last October for the position, is significant in that in 2010, he supported the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the U.S. military.
An obscure state regulation prevents a local nonprofit from holding its version of a bake sale. The state legislature took notice and began to look at alternate approaches.
Donald Sterling of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, Daniel Snyder who owns the D.C. NFL franchise, and Mark Cuban of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks all seem to have degrees of problems on the subject of race. Sterling has been handed a lifetime ban by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, fifty senators have written to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking to change the name of the Washington team, but someone ought to do a little educational work with “the full Mark Cuban.”
Instead of liquidating the $100,000 worth of stock of his Cleveland hardware store in the usual way, Rudy Rosales is donating it to the local Habitat for Humanity.
A new postage stamp has been devoted to famed gay activist Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978.
The Michigan House of Representatives just approved $198.4 million in state funds for the Grand Bargain to save the Detroit Institute of Art collection and to help fund the city’s pension liabilities. The DIA isn’t happy with some parts of the deal, and Americans for Prosperity, funded by the Koch brothers, has pledged to block it.
NPQ is preparing a special issue of its magazine on innovative practices in nonprofit communications.