To discover what really works in nonprofit capacity building, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conducted “listening sessions” with funders and nonprofits. This article flows from that inquiry – presenting three core principles, drawn from practice, that funders should consider.
AN NPQ CLASSIC: Conversations with CEO candidates often fail to address the most challenging and important issues in play. Is it any wonder that conflict, misunderstanding, and bad executive choices result?
Some of the observable negative traits of founder-led organizations may be real, but can they really be termed a syndrome?
The American Nurses Association reflects on its yearlong journey toward organizational change.
What does working within an intentional network require of its leaders?
Last week, the Pittsburgh school board voted for the first time to rescind a $750,000 contract with Teach for America, choosing instead to keep open an elementary school slated to close.
A new report from Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley suggests that some nonprofits, primarily eds and meds, pay high salaries that might not be warranted.
The debate continues: Do the civic, social and economic benefits of a community’s charities offset the loss of local property tax revenues for municipal coffers?
Wal-Mart and other corporations get employees to contribute to corporate PACs by offering matching charitable donations.
The cumulative impact of food stamp cuts could have one unanticipated and enormously disturbing result: threatening the willingness of supermarkets to open up in low-income “food deserts.”
PayPal founder Peter Thiel discusses his “20 Under 20” fellowship, which asks students to pass up college.
This despicable anti-gay bill recently passed by the Ugandan parliament and awaiting the president’s signature has been supported for years by the American Right.