Some nonprofit trade associations are using their numbers, both in terms of members and the people their members serve, to get seats around the table to talk with the highest public policy decision makers on critical issues. In Washington, the head of the Nonprofit Roundtable got to weigh in with White House staff on the Affordable Care Act, an issue that nonprofit associations around the nation have on their front burners.
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We’ve noticed that this interview with Naomi Levine on what makes fundraisers successful pops up again and again on social media, so we’re bringing this NPQ classic back by popular demand.
On the occasion of its 5,000th award, the Hudson Institute’s Bill Schambra reflects upon the Daily Points of Light initiative of President George H.W. Bush with disappointment, but looks forward to the grassroots community renewal ideas of Congressman Paul Ryan. The problem: when was the last time a national politician’s commitment to community-based organizations was more than a rhetorical flourish?
By using Dubbler’s app to let anxious students record messages in relative anonymity, the L.A. nonprofit Be More Heroic hopes to create awareness and connection among young people at risk of taunting, teasing, and cyberbullying.
Are there revenue streams around your organization that are untapped? And is your board well enough structured to bridge a relationship?
Nonprofit clinics and local advocates will be on the front lines of explaining Obamacare to low-income populations.
Ramadan is a special time for charitable giving for Muslims. It is also a time for understanding and compassion—and for Americans, a time for getting past stereotypes.
NPQ is continually struck by the sheer impact of the recession on major performing arts organizations and the depth of the changes now required of them. Symphonies are particularly interesting because they exist in a competitive international environment and there is an active organized labor movement among musicians.
There seems to be little congressional interest in rescuing domestic safety net programs from the prospect of another year’s worth of sequestration budget cuts. All it takes for the Pentagon brass is to suggest that the cuts will be “very damaging,” and lawmakers quiver. Somehow, the demonstrably devastating impacts of the sequester on programs for the poor don’t get nearly an equivalent reaction.
Detroit’s nonprofit sector has been doing yeoman work to address the worst effects of the Motor City’s decades-long plunge into a financial abyss. Now, nonprofits—and the communities they represent—need a seat at the table to help design Detroit’s path out of bankruptcy, but the city’s future has to be designed on a platform that breaks the cycle that led to this point. The Cohen Report outlines four areas of activity where nonprofits can and should change the terms for Detroit’s recovery.
Nantucket is the county with the highest housing prices in the U.S., and many of the residents of those houses are present only during the summer, so fundraising season is unbearably short and intense!
To what extent have charities become dependent agents of government rather than community-based problem-solving organizations? The Simon Foundation’s James Piereson questions whether nonprofits’ increasing dependence on and lobbying for government funding implies that they might not require the charitable tax deduction quite so much.