In Tennessee, Governor Haslam’s strategy for building a competitive workforce and reducing inequity includes providing two free years of community college or technical school education for every high school graduate in the state.

In the midst of the multi-foundation deal to protect the Detroit Institute of Arts from being sold off to help pay for the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy, questions are being raised about its financial practices in terms of executive compensation.

It’s good for an agency to be close to local elected officials, but not too close.

Vice President Joe Biden got a new job in President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address. He will be convening a task force to conduct a soup-to-nuts review of the nation’s best practices in job training programs. Couldn’t he just ask a few nonprofits—and maybe some state governors—about what works?

California has been perennially a state budget basket case, beset by huge deficits. No longer, but Governor Jerry Brown wants to exercise fiscal restraint with the state’s now hefty revenue surplus.

Because Congress is stuck in the mud, President Obama has chosen a strategy of taking action through executive orders. However, his first noteworthy executive order, raising the minimum wage for federal contract employees to $10.10 an hour, is going to benefit a relatively small number of workers.

The Minnesota Orchestra has marked its reinvigoration with a striking new symbol.

By taking NPQ’s annual reader survey, you will become eligible to win a free subscription to the print journal and have the chance to become part of this year’s editorial advisory committee.

A group in Indiana inadvertently raises questions about the nature of tax exemption for churches and other religious organizations.

The state’s nonprofit alliance has stepped up to help agencies navigate the new law, which requires nonprofits to register before soliciting tax-deductible charitable contributions within the state.

Homeless families are crowding hotels and motels from coast to coast, and programs to provide homeless families permanent supportive housing seem to be short of resources.

Is the public pressure on the issue of the NFL’s nonprofit status likely to ease now that the Super Bowl is over, or has the point of no return been reached?