A new study from the Case Foundation and Social Media for Nonprofits helps advance the conversation around how nonprofits use social media to engage their communities. What is working and why?

There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come, and the time appears to have come for prison reform, a movement that is gaining traction among Democrats and Republicans alike.

Today, social media practitioners are more concerned about discovering what their audience cares about and when they want to receive this content. A page Like doesn’t tell us that, but a Like, Comment or Share on a post does. These metrics are the pulse of our audience and we can feel it with every post, every day of the year.

NPQ is in the middle of a search for a publisher; and yesterday, our search consultant said to me that in transitions that involve founders, it is generally best to consider the founder guilty until proven innocent. 

With six-figure and seven-figure salaries, hospital CEOs seem to have it made. Why did 20 percent of them leave their jobs in 2013, and why is turnover higher than for nonprofits generally?

It seems odd to see nonprofit and foundation executives pledge themselves to increased practices of transparency, going beyond the minimal requirements of the law, and then refuse to disclose their salaries—which they will have to do on their Form 990 tax statements anyhow.

A new section in the GuideStar Exchange invites nonprofits to share information about how they are governed, thereby advancing public understanding of how the sector works. How will nonprofit leaders respond? Will this call for transparency motivate boards to improve their practices?

Russian television already shows Crimea as part of Russia. With little leverage in a country adjoining Russia that’s partly occupied by Russian military troops, what are international aid donors supposed to do?

A new study from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development once again attempts to define the characteristics of venture philanthropy. Is there a real “there” there?

Presidential communications are no longer fireside chats with families gathered around the radio. Beyond the Tonight Show and other late-night TV, the latest presidential forum of choice appears to be Zach Galifianakis’s Between Two Ferns interview show on FunnyOrDie.com.

This ought to set off our democracy alarms: Is the CIA spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the CIA?

The case of the “boobie bracelets” has now been rejected by the Supreme Court, which upheld lower court rulings that kids have the right to wear the bracelets in school as an expression of free speech.