A Utah court cleared the way for same-sex marriage less than a month ago, resulting in a “thrilling pandemonium” of holiday unions, or at least licenses. But now the U.S. Supreme Court has stepped in.
After the George Zimmerman verdict, there was a nonprofit outcry against state stand-your-ground laws, but efforts to modify or repeal these statutes have generally failed, and stand-your-ground defenses are being invoked more frequently than ever.
Eliminating poverty through promoting marriage—how’s that working for us?
The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and The Lancet have exposed the Pentecostal and charismatic church “prayer camps” in Ghana that are torturing persons with mental illnesses. Why haven’t religious leaders stepped up to shut down these abusive centers operating under the cover of religious belief?
Employing increasing numbers of seniors, America’s direct-care workforce has expanded significantly even though the industry’s real wages have declined over the last ten years.
It’s quite amazing that there are 88 foundations in Italy with major holdings in scores of large banks, but in some cases, they are under pressure from national and extra-national bodies to loosen their influence and control over the banks’ financial strategies.
Although this article specifically addresses the revenue strategies of theaters it is also a grounded view of what it takes to make a nonprofit enterprise with mixed revenue streams work. Add your thoughts!
Elections are not the only realm where dark money plays an obfuscating role in politics. This new study finds that major conservative funders are funneling their money through intermediaries to obscure the relationships between campaigns for climate change denial and funding sources, and potentially their corporate interests.
A case involving the federal government trying to get out from under contractually obligated payments to Native American tribes has implications for nonprofit contractors—especially since the Obama administration is pressing Congress for legislation allowing it to renege on some of what it owes.
This blog by Michael Norton for HBR suggests that the artifacts of corporate giving may be changing.
Living outside the codes that bind traditional journalism, bloggers and citizen journalists are having an impact.
Ray Pensador declares that non-hierarchical organizing models have gotten under the skin of corporate and governmental intelligence-gathering partnerships. He suggests that this presages a resurgence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.