Tom Brokaw got Greg Mortenson to say he appreciated being exposed by CBS’s 60 Minutes and author Jon Krakauer back in 2011, but he didn’t say that meant he acknowledges that his books and his charity were built on tissues of lies.
When nonprofits adhere too strongly to the notion that boards should keep their distance from management, it can lead to irretrievable losses.
As Washington politicians focus on reinvigorating a War on Poverty, nonprofits have the opportunity and challenge to provide creative energy, engaged constituents, and nonpartisan leadership. But it won’t be a comfortable ride.
What the heck was behind the shuttering of 15 behavioral health organizations in New Mexico last summer? Due process and transparency are definitely not the watchwords of this situation!
Citizens United is the law of the land, thanks to the Supreme Court four years ago, but activists at the state level are trying to rein it in.
The million homeless in the U.S. certainly qualify for free healthcare coverage, but it is incredibly hard to reach the homeless to get them to sign up for healthcare insurance in states where Medicaid has been expanded to include individuals without children. Some outreach workers are doing yeoman work to reach out to the homeless wherever they might be found.
Monitoring the uses of billions pledged by banks for their mortgage abuses is a disturbing exercise in financial illusion. The banks appear to be delivering much less than the topline settlement numbers suggest.
This is the third in a series of trend reports NPQ will be printing in January 2014. This particular piece looks at trends in philanthropic practice as we traced them through our newswires and features. These trends included issues related to impact, donor motivation, democratic practice, and the place of risk in giving, but the most marked trend we see mirrors the gap in the economy: On one side, this showed up as super-democratic crowdfunding, and on the other, as major gifts that have the potential to bend large systems to the donors’ will.
The Urban League of Rhode Island is in one of those public organizational tailspins that require a strong board. Where is the board in this situation?
“Advancing risk-taking storytellers worldwide,” the Sundance Institute is at the center of the interests of the Open Society Foundations.
This concept behind this odd naming campaign makes great use of what we all know about fundraising—online or off.
The omission of undocumented immigrants from ACA coverage may have been intended by sponsors to win over potential opponents, but it didn’t. However, it did relegate undocumented immigrants to the margins of decent healthcare, making the roles of low-cost or no-cost health clinics critical as “bridges to justice.”