What will happen to Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society, widely viewed as an innovative provider of housing to people who are at the far margins of society?
The Playbook for Destroying Your Own Work
Science and Philanthropy: Nice, but Insufficient
A New York Times writer follows up on a report on huge investments in scientific research by big donors, but says that government spending is necessary to bring them to scale.
Bringing Contemporary Art to a Public Housing Setting
Thanks to an arts service agency in New York that collaborates with local social service organizations, museum-quality art is finding its way into some new neighborhoods.
Every Business a Social Enterprise?
Writing for the Guardian, Margaret Heffernan asks for a richer discussion about the relationship between business and society. She says she thinks that “every business should be a social enterprise.”
CT Governor Malloy Gets Highest State Minimum Wage Approved
In what’s likely a boon to his reelection chances, Connecticut’s governor has achieved his campaign centerpiece goal: an increase to the minimum wage that’s the highest in the U.S. to date.
Bain Capital Buying Up Methadone Clinics
Bain Capital is establishing a behavioral health empire. What will this mean for quality of care?
3 Objections to Dan Snyder’s Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation
There is no question that Daniel Snyder has chosen to create a new entity rather than working through existing foundations or Native American grantmakers for a very clear purpose: to attach the name of his Washington, D.C., NFL franchise to philanthropic support for Native Americans.
Min Wage Hikes in Some Fields Require Public Funding Increases
In the “road to hell is paved with good intentions” department, efforts to increase Seattle’s minimum wage fail to ensure that the public funding pots increase to reflect added costs.
Why is Chicago’s Opera Scene Thriving as Others Go Belly Up?
While operas in New York, Boston, and San Diego go under, the operas in Chicago—that’s right, plural—are thriving. What’s in the special sauce?
5 Lessons from Bernie Madoff for the Nonprofit Sector—And All of Us
Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernie Madoff seems to enjoy talking from his prison cell. If we get past his pleas for understanding and sympathy, there is much to learn about how to protect nonprofits and all of society from his type in the future.
The Check’s in the Mail? A Charity Sponsor Makes Himself Scarce after Event
It’s great when local business supports charity by sponsoring a public event, but what happens when the money never comes through?
Income Segregation: Cities with the Greatest Separation between the Poor and Everyone Else
Cities in the Southwest, around the Great Lakes, and on the East Coast were called out as having the most challenges.