Conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan and gays in Uganda are absolutely horrendous. The challenges for humanitarian aid providers are immense and complicated, but cannot and should not escape attention and action.
Women, Gays Targets in Afghanistan and Uganda, and Around the World
If you are not already doing so, add depreciation expense to your current budgeting practices and boost your organization’s financial health.
In San Diego, there has been a dramatic revolt against shutting down the area’s opera company.
In the aftermath of the Armstrong Scandal, the Livestrong Foundation must focus differently if it is to survive.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times that public policy (and, implicitly, nonprofit practice) focused on the notion of a “skills gap” is misguided, counterproductive, and a strategy of blaming the worker.
It’s hard to buy what General Motors CEO Mary Barra had to say in her televised apology and Congressional testimony. In its wake, GM has recruited disaster lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to help the company find a negotiable way out of its culpability for more than a dozen deaths due to its decade-long refusal to fix a faulty ignition switch in its cars.
A Connecticut bill that would create a moratorium on for-profit acquisitions of nonprofit hospitals is unlikely to go forward in its current form.
Admirable for his social justice ideals, Mike Edwards’ ideas go against the flow of today’s NGOs and funders. Despite their rhetoric of social justice, too many funders are devoted to business principles embedded in a structure of “social enterprise.”