Is Obama uninterested in the arts and humanities? If not, why have the leadership positions at the National Endowments for these areas remained unfilled for so long?
Chairs at Nat’l Endowments for Arts and Humanities Remain Unfilled under Obama
Perfect Storm of Charter School Scandal in DC
If the defense offered by its attorney that the alleged conflicts of interest, fraud, and double-dipping are common practice among nonprofit charter schools in D.C. is accurate, the Options Public Charter School scandal may do damage to charter schools from coast to coast.
AmeriCorps VISTA Health Insurance Doesn’t Meet ACA Requirements
Imagine that you’re a low-paid—and we mean really low-paid—VISTA worker doing anything from mentoring kids in schools to providing disaster relief. You already know that your government-provided insurance doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions or some specialty treatments, but now you find out that it doesn’t meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act and you might be subject to a fine regarding the individual mandate.
World’s Billionaires $524B Richer as 2013 Ends, and One of Them Puts the Pope on Notice
The rich are getting much richer at an alarming rate, and one of the world’s many billionaires warns the Pope to zip it on the matter of poverty, or else he might get mad and go away.
Times and Guardian Urge Clemency for Snowden
Is Edward Snowden an outlaw or a valuable whistleblower who should be protected? The New York Times and the Guardian in the UK both ran editorials asserting the latter, and urging clemency, on New Year’s Day.
Boards and Discussions of Public Opinion
The latest from Pew Research tells us that a majority of Americans own a smart phone, support gay-marriage, approve of marijuana legalization, favor American isolationism and feel the federal government impedes personal rights.
The Occupy Movement at the End of 2013
In Toronto, Hong Kong, and Kathmandu, the “Occupy” movement has meaning for advocates of democracy. In the U.S., Occupy has evolved—or devolved—but may still have meaning in light of recent attention to economic and political inequalities.
Shocking Chart Reveals Precipitous Increase in State Abortion Restrictions
A chart shows at a glance the enormous increase in the passage of state laws restricting abortion.
Assisting the Hidden Victims of Superstorm Sandy
Excluded from Superstorm Sandy assistance in New York are hundreds, perhaps thousands of occupants of apartments that were illegal basement or attic units not allowed under city or state law.
NPQ’s Lay Journalists: What They Cover and Why
Core to NPQ’s collaborative journalism model are our volunteer writers, whose work helps us trace trends as they emerge. Here are the newswires they chose as their favorites from the year just completed.
Can Management Principles from Zappos’ Holacracy Teach Nonprofits?
The CEO of an online retail outlet has plans to replace his company’s traditional structure with an organization style without job titles or managers.
Study Investigates the Nature of Altruism
An article from the business section of the Sunday New York Times highlighted recent research on the motivation to give.