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“The Day We Fight Back” Will Be More Than One Day
What will the course be of the global protest launched yesterday against NSA surveillance practices?
William Penn Foundation Chooses New and Very Different Managing Director
No one would ever call Jeremy Nowak, the former head of the William Penn Foundation in 2011 and 2012, “buttoned-down”—more like “controversial,” “pugnacious,” “tough,” and a few other adjectives. Nowak’s successor at the foundation, University of Pennsylvania dean Peter Degnan, apparently represents a completely different style of leadership, but will he bring Philadelphia’s largest and most influential private foundation a different strategy toward grantmaking?
Donors Choose Unveils Data on Giving Trends and Need in Public Schools
Donors Choose recently released 13 years of data on gifts totaling over $220 million to public schools throughout the country. For school leaders, whether or not they are involved directly with Donors Choose, this new information could be a useful tool to boost community engagement with public schools nationwide.
The Charity Shell Game: $40 Million in Donated Medicine Still Missing
Three news agencies have been unable to document whether and where a full $40 million worth of medicines and other gifts in kind were shipped as aid to Guatemala. What is going on?
The Public Sector Union Debate Continues
Negative poll numbers on public sector unions, even if a little biased, suggest that unions have to get a grip on their brand management problem.
Seduced and Abandoned: Agencies and their Volunteers
The lack of a well-run volunteer program leads to a terrible collection of missed opportunities.
Minnesota Orchestra’s Troubles Not Yet Over
Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra’s storied former music director, is not fully satisfied with the resolution to the orchestra’s dispute with its musicians, and he speaks out against current executive leadership.
Closing the Gender Gap at Wikipedia
The gender gap at Wikipedia has had serious consequences for how content is developed. These feminist art fans aim to do their bit to change all that.
A Tale of Two Moralities: The NFL on Racial Team Names and Gay Team Players
The NFL is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the modern world, even if Roger Goodell and Dan Snyder think it’s perfectly OK to let a team keep a racially offensive name and many NFL football executives think that one’s sexual orientation overrides an athlete’s ability to play.
Former New York Times Editor Keller Goes to Nonprofit News Site Focused on Prisons
Bill Keller, famed editor of the New York Times, has declared that he will head a startup news organization focused on the much-neglected issue of our prisons and corrections system.
Questionable Audits of Environmental Charities by Canada Revenue Agency
As hearings continue in the U.S. about how the Internal Revenue Service mucked up its reviews of the 501(c)(4) applications of Tea Party organizations, north of the border the Canada Revenue Agency is conducting politically questionable audits of Canadian environmental groups that oppose the government’s policies on oil and gas extraction and shipping.