Legal aid funding has been reduced by 85 percent since 2008. It is well past time to reverse that.
Massachusetts Attorneys Mobilize to Increase Legal Aid Funding in Boston
Memphis Symphony to “Wind Down”
In Memphis, another symphony hits a wall.
Splitting the Baby at a Washington State Food Bank
Snoqualmie Valley, Washington, will soon be home to two food banks—if no one comes to their senses.
A Reflection on Pete Seeger’s Moral Courage
Folk singer Pete Seeger died last week at the age of 94. Some of us remember him not just for his folk singing, his leadership of the environmental clean-up of the Hudson River, and his lifelong progressive politics, but for his amazing courage during the height of the reprehensible Red Scares of the 1950s taking on the House Un-American Activities Committee.
17 Foundations Divest Themselves of Fossil Fuel Investments
Seventeen foundations have together decided to divest themselves of fossil fuel investments. Now, how about Harvard?
Nonprofits: Avoid Those Social Media Silos!
Corporations are breaking away from social media silos and adopting a hub-and-spoke model instead. Such models may be particularly useful for nonprofits but, in the case of high-risk client outreach, should be adapted thoughtfully.
An Employment Ladder into the Middle Class: An Entrepreneurial US Postal Service
A half-million Americans work for the U.S. Postal Service, though that number is way below what it was only a decade ago, because this independent agency of the U.S. government is prevented from pursuing plenty of creative, entrepreneurial opportunities that would fix its longstanding financial problems. If President Obama is concerned about ladders into the middle class, he and Congress should be strengthening the USPS and encouraging it to pursue entrepreneurial activities—just like the social entrepreneurialism they both want to see from the nonprofit sector.
5 Nonprofit News Sites to Collaborate on Coverage of Detroit’s Journey through Bankruptcy
The scene in Detroit is complicated with many moving parts, so coverage of it requires something extra. In this case, that something extra will be a collaboration of nonprofit news sites, all monitoring the same set of benchmarks.
The Controversy Bubbles Over: ScarJo Quits Oxfam for West Bank’s SodaStream
When news broke of actress Scarlett Johansson’s endorsement deal with a firm operating in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Oxfam objected—because Oxfam supports boycotts of businesses operating in the West Bank, and ScarJo was an Oxfam global ambassador. Johansson’s made her choice; she’s dropping her relationship with Oxfam and keeping her deal with SodaStream, which will feature her in a Super Bowl TV ad on February 2nd.
Russians Try to Allow but “Contain” Protests on Eve of Olympics
The protest scenario around the Olympics is an odd mix of extreme restrictions mixed with some small concessions. What will politically active people do as we count down the last week to the Games?
Bermuda Creates a Community Foundation
Born in Bermuda, Atlantic Philanthropies is in the process of spending out and shutting down. Toward that end, it has given its last-ever grant in Bermuda: six million dollars to capitalize the Bermuda Community Foundation.
Board Chairs
Great ones. Mediocre ones. Or just plain bad ones! Simone Joyaux gives her views on board chairs of all sorts.