A recent Harvard University study found that that the compensation of nonprofit hospital CEOs shows little connection to the quality of the service their institutions provide. Instead, it correlates more closely to high ratings on patient satisfaction surveys and advanced technological capacity, among other factors.
Paul Hogan believes that the never-ending argument about which is better: general operating support or program support misses some of the point. What do you think?
The Catholic diocese in Springfield, Illinois, has set up a legal services program for poor people. Because many poor people will turn to their church pastors before they turn to secular resources, this is a logical and valuable charitable service for the Catholic Church to offer.
This weekend, people in 17 states found themselves unable to access their food stamp benefits because of a system failure at Xerox. As the government remains shut down, will these outages and malfunctions become more frequent? Some tech experts assert that keeping these electronic systems shut down leaves them open to infiltrators and worse.
Over the last few years, nonprofits have been losing donors at a relatively fast rate. The data show that the recovery, even amongst nonprofits, is favoring the rich.
Catherine Michna, writing for Slate, asserts that TFA prospects aren’t ready for the classroom—and urges her colleagues to not write recommendations, either.
At the Value Voters Summit, Senator Ted Cruz won the straw poll as the assembled social conservatives’ favorite candidate for president in 2016. But Cruz and his Tea Party colleagues have led the conservative movement far from its purported populist roots.
Agents of Good are suggesting the unthinkable: Replace the familiar fundraising pyramid with something being called the “love pyramid.”
Columbus Day gives unfortunate glory to the acts of Western Europeans who nearly exterminated the indigenous peoples of the American continent, which Christopher Columbus purportedly “discovered” in 1492. Many Native American tribes, already desperately poor and isolated, now struggle to cope with the impacts of a partial federal government shutdown that seems to treat them as less-than-sovereign nations bound to the U.S. by treaties.
The mortgage crisis continues, despite press inattention, and nonprofits are responding.
If congressional Republicans hadn’t led the nation into a fruitless partial government shutdown and onto the brink of a national debt default, the nation would be focused on the seriously troubled startup of the federal government’s healthcare.gov health insurance exchange. Nonprofit navigators must be seeing what we’re seeing: The state exchanges are, for the most part, doing much better than the federal operation.
A creative placemaking grant from the Kresge Foundation will help merchants attract visitors while the neighborhood is being revitalized. This approach has the potential to build bridges between the business and arts communities even as it builds momentum for a new arts district that will benefit both.