Human rights that extend beyond specific mission areas should always be on the front burner for action by U.S. nonprofit organizations. The occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated this past Saturday, March 8th, is another reminder of one part of the unfinished human rights agenda.
There is exciting, innovative activity at the intersection of investment and philanthropy, but, the author maintains, the innovations are constrained by old-fashioned thinking.
The new nonprofit-business hybrids that have been cropping up lately assert that they are a distinct form. But are they?
Tickets for Burning Man sold out in record time this year, and the organization recently announced it’s transitioning into a nonprofit organization with plans to expand globally.
Perhaps she got tired of having to repeat Vladimir Putin’s contention that there are no Russian troops on Ukrainian soil, but Liz Wahl had had it with her job as a news anchor for the nonprofit Russia Today network. While the cameras were running, she made a statement against Putin and quit on the spot.
A New Hampshire bill that would have treated large nonprofits like for-profit businesses and charged them certain taxes has been killed.
One of the nation’s most significant funders of K-12 education, the Walton Family Foundation pursues a practice of strategic philanthropy incorporating a theory of change, foundation investments consistent with that theory, developing performance metrics as to what would constitute successful outcomes, and collecting evidence based on those metrics for continuous organizational learning. This article explains WFF’s distinctive approach.
The Coalition for an Affordable City opposes San Francisco’s proposed tax on sugary soda drinks. It may be more concerned about the profitability of sodas than the affordability of the City by the Bay.
A move to increase PILOTs gains traction in Pittsburgh while a tax increase proposal fails in the New Hampshire legislature.
An upside to nonprofit journalism is the great chance to do what much of the mainstream media isn’t doing, especially in the realm of “accountability journalism.” Do we live up to the standard of accountability journalism in coverage of nonprofits and philanthropy?
Nonprofits gathered for Philanthropy Week in Washington primarily to take on tiny issues such as floors and caps on charitable deductions as contained in the President’s FY 2015 Budget and in Congressman Dave Camp’s comprehensive tax reform framework. But the president’s budget contains much more in its 1,656 pages with specific reference to nonprofits and foundations.
We hope that the Philanthropy Week lobbying won’t lead to a dumbed down vision of the roles and potentials of foundations in American society. Foundations have important roles to play as counterweights to government and to corporations and as instruments for addressing our society’s social and economic inequities. These roles should be celebrated and underscored, not hidden behind a strategy of selling simplistic “good news” stories.