Sixty-seven million dollars went out to 105 organizations, many of them nonprofits, to serve as navigators to make the Affordable Care Act work vis-à-vis getting people to sign up for insurance on the health exchanges. These grants put nonprofits in a crucial, make-or-break role for national health insurance reform.
In a recent post on Salon, former teacher John Savage examines how in less than one academic year, his youthful idealism about teaching was overtaken by a sense of frustration reflecting broader challenges for the education field as a whole.
The March for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 had a very strong emphasis on jobs and economic equality. How far have we come in the past fifty years? Take this brief quiz and see for yourself.
Moving homeless people 15 miles outside of the city to ensure that Columbia, SC does not lose its current momentum smacks of the practice in the original thirteen colonies of exiling the “unworthy” poor.
Two for-profit companies recently reincorporated as nonprofits, allowing them to solicit grants and tax deductible contributions from individuals. Sector-switching may become more prevalent in the foreseeable future.
Despite all the calls for diversification of Board demographics, it’s been slow in both for profit and nonprofit organizations.
The changes LinkedIn has implemented in their social network may affect how nonprofits use groups.
Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare have been obvious and documented for many years, but effective action has been slow in coming. In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, it’s time to insert healthcare as a core piece of the nation’s civil rights agenda.
A homeless shelter closes, and Palo Alto, California is left without a vitally important human service delivery resource. Can such an affluent community own up to its responsibility for the homeless, or will the city nudge the “problem” onto the plate of some other municipalities?
Many believe that new state-level regulations and restrictions are unnecessary and being applied explicitly to closing clinic that perform abortions.
We’re very excited by this new guide from the Knight Foundation that walks you through the process of a Giving Day, step by step.
A number of 501(c)(4)s based in New York State are seeking exemptions from the law that requires them to disclose their well-heeled donors.