While many senior citizens—or seniors-to-be—place a high value on independence and hope to age in place, sometimes the place itself can exacerbate health problems. A research project in Baltimore is exploring the impact of low-cost interventions to help seniors live safely at home for longer.
The son of Warren Buffett has come to some commendable conclusions regarding the consequential effects of ostentatious philanthropy. Of course, they’re not quite as groundbreaking and innovative as he believes.
Are foundation grants that take on “big questions” that sound more like sci-fi than science justifiable? How do you feel about one of the latest grants from the John Templeton Foundation to search for alien spacecraft?
AN NPQ CLASSIC: Promote the values and vision of the organization when searching for a new chief executive, but also challenge candidates to address the hardest issues that will confront them. This assures that the candidate you select is well equipped to confront those issues, and signals that the Board is ready to work openly with the new chief executive.
A Maine town denies tax-exempt status for a local dance organization and an arts association.
Does the shuttering of a chapter of an organization dedicated to racial, religious, and cultural harmony have something to tell us about the health of nonprofits across the United States?
The notion of specialized hierarchies for donors at particular dollar levels has been around forever. But none of the research suggests that these giving clubs or societies does a thing to keep or incentivize donors.
The Americans with Disabilities Act became the law of the land in 1990. Progress in making the ADA a reality in the treatment of persons with disabilities has been achieved in fits and starts, but much more needs to be done. For foundations and nonprofits, today should be a time for remembering that equal rights and equal opportunities for persons with disabilities is a civil rights issue for all of us.
The new president of the Ford Foundation possesses powerful strengths and a deep commitment to collaborative, democratic processes. He is African American, a lawyer, a financial whiz, and a HeadStart graduate from a small town in Texas. He’s also a consummate “insider,” following a clear “outsider” in the philanthropic world. What can we expect?
A Stanford University scholar proposes the nonprofitization of public transit, but is that really where we think the sector belongs on this issue?
The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has been working to save our planet and improve our environment by cloning the earth’s largest and oldest trees.
Rallies nationwide protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin have drawn attention to an equally heinous stand-your-ground incident: the killing of Jordan Davis last year. The combination of the two should propel nonprofits into a broad agenda of the problem of racial disparities in the judicial system and the overly weaponized culture in many cities of the nation.