Thirty-three cities, among them Los Angeles, Rome, Rio, and Mexico City, received “resilient city” grants from a high profile program of the Rockefeller Foundation late last year. Within a few months, the grant to the city of Alameda, California was pulled. What happened?

Here’s a cautionary tale from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences about the need for adequate oversight by boards of directors.

This story is a new twist on internet aided stakeholder revolts, a trend that NPQ has been covering for some time, in that here one for profit company – OKCupid – is making a statement of values and asking their customers who overlap with Mozilla’s to boycott them.

Criticisms of nonprofit news outlets fail to recognize that lack of transparency and conflicts of interest have tainted the impartiality of a few traditional for-profit news media outlets, as well.

A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton reinforces why nonprofits should not target only the wealthy or well off with their fundraising appeals. It also exhibits that our minds work in odd ways.

Nearly 20,000 people have signed an online petition protesting the announced closure of the San Diego Opera. But unless at least some of them are ready to cough up about $10 million by the end of this month—and unless the board, staff and artists can resolve some uncomfortable issues—the fat lady may still be lurking just offstage.

Beloved NPQ columnist Woods Bowman died suddenly last Friday in an accident. We have no words sufficient to express the loss that we feel. Woods, an economist, was, of course, the Nonprofit Ethicist and a frequent contributor to our magazine on issues of finance and ethics, but he was far more than that. He was a deeply loved friend and advisor to NPQ. So today, we are running one of Bowman’s more recent and impassioned pieces on the reasons behind the vibrancy of Chicago’s opera scene and ask you to join us in remembering him.

The irony of it all. . . .

Is Teach for America better off concentrating in areas where school committee members are not democratically elected? Amy Dean thinks so!

An infographic from SumAll.com reveals the best times for posting on the largest social media platforms.

The Supreme Court has taken another step down the Citizens United road with the McCutcheon decision that eliminates aggregate caps on rich people’s donations to individual candidates and political party committees. Gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson might be happy with the decision, but the vast majority of Americans who don’t sit on billions in assets are going to find themselves further marginalized in this nation’s supposed democratic process.