Digital conversion may result in hundreds of drive-in theaters across America closing down by the end of the year, and Honda is launching a project to save the American tradition. Is this a contribution to civic life?

An exhibition of artwork that celebrates “wildlife and remote communities” is being sponsored by a company that was publically decried for building a dam that may have a devastating effect on the local Amazonian rainforest.

The new law, which allows for detention of gay people or allies for up to 14 days, is a black eye on Putin’s Russia just as it hopes to present itself positively to the world for the Winter Olympics in 2014.

A conservation group has taken aim at an agricultural nonprofit for its plan to cut down trees to raise funds, endangering California wildlife in the process.

At the Hewlett Foundation, we think it’s important to hear from—and listen to—people who disagree with us or approach philanthropy differently, which is why we were delighted to invite Bill Schambra to speak. 

Two days ago we published a speech by Bill Schambra in which he blasted the practices of so-called strategic philanthropy. The speech was given at the Hewlett Foundation which is to be commended for its openness to challenge. Schambra likes a full throated debate so he invited Paul Brest, the former president of the Hewlett Foundation to respond so here are his thoughts and, as a special added bonus, those of the current president of the Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer. Please chime in with your own opinions!

This edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly has been fascinating to patch together, because there is so much that is still a moving target where the new landscape of philanthropy is concerned.

Without people in the top spots, are the NEA and NEH without the political oomph to protect and advance their fields?

Impact investing is very appealing. It provides a financial return on investment and accomplishes a social mission. But is it the paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for?

A new analysis by the Tax Foundation of a “blank slate” of tax expenditures—zeroing out the charitable deduction and using the revenues generated for individual income tax rate deductions—shows positives for the U.S. economy in terms of increased jobs and GDP growth. Will nonprofit leadership organizations respond with their own analyses, or hope that the public simply ignores the results of the Tax Foundation’s economic simulation?

As independent bookstores rely more on community involvement and the love of the printed word to stay afloat, their goals align with arts nonprofits. As a result, some have taken up crowdfunding as a means of recovering revenue lost to online booksellers.

This is a story about how cannabis ended up saving the life of a young girl and how a new Colorado nonprofit is helping epilepsy sufferers with the oil of the plant.