The decision last week by the U.S. branch of international charity World Vision to retract an employment policy change regarding employees in legal same-sex marriages led one member of the board to step down on Friday.

Drug policies affect communities and nonprofits in any number of ways. The overwhelming shift in public opinion means there is now a platform for change, but is the nonprofit sector going to take advantage of it—or will it be Bain Capital?

A secret, massive fund to be used for the needs of poor people was exposed recently at the Archdiocese of Detroit when a priest was indicted for defrauding it. Now the fund is being ended. We have no words…

Conservatives keep floating alternatives to the Affordable Care Act as though the ACA will somehow magically disappear. Watch out for their hidden agendas of trying to restrict women’s reproductive choice rights.

This week, the Affordable Care Act reached its first major benchmark for full implementation. Today’s Cohen Report takes stock of what the ACA has done to reshape some of the contours and functions of nonprofits beyond those that, like clinics and hospitals, are directly involved in the delivery of healthcare services. The ACA-generated changes for nonprofits will only continue and expand.

The Bible’s most famous line about rich people says: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25). That doesn’t seem to bother the operators of Daystar Television and other tax-exempt churches that promote the so-called “prosperity theology.”

Among the millions of Americans likely to benefit from the Affordable Care Act are hundreds of thousands of artists who have historically struggled to pay for insurance on their own or have gone without coverage.

Parents with children suffering from daily debilitating seizures are organizing for legislation in various states to legalize “Charlotte’s Web,” a special strain of oil from marijuana which is said to help.

NPQ would love readers’ comments about this situation in Palo Alto, where two very large nonprofits are asking for special status in distribution of city funds.

The Jefferson Educational Society joins a long list of nonprofits in the eastern U.S. negotiating PILOTS with local government officials.

For most navigators and most call-in centers, the surging demand for help on the last “official” day to sign up on the federal and state exchanges for health insurance caused periodic outages and crashes—no surprise, given the “glitches” suffered by the exchange websites in the months leading up to the ACA deadline.

You may have heard of the Dual Bottom Line: the idea that strategic choices must serve both mission impact and financial viability. But how do you turn this idea into a quantitative decision-making tool? Blue Avocado columnist Steve Zimmerman summarizes the Matrix Map approach in this article adapted from the book he co-wrote with Jeanne Bell and Jan Masaoka, Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Choices for Financial Viability.