Over many years, musicians have stood up and spoken out on issues of racial justice, and so it is not surprising that Stevie Wonder and Lester Chambers have made statements about the Trayvon Martin trial. But on Saturday, Chambers was assaulted for doing so.
The recent evolution of conservative politics has had a somewhat less-than-compassionate feel. An economist at the American Enterprise Institute believes that building community and the mediating institutions that bolster community—plus a large dollop of love—is the recipe for the conservative movement to turn around the public perception that conservative leaders, like Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections, don’t really care about people in need.
Like a cancelled fireworks display, attempts to provoke action surrounding the sequester’s coming second year have led to lots of standing around and the absence of anything spectacular. We break down the causes of this apathetic response, and lay out four steps to change course.
As ThinkImpact grew, its founder, Saul Garlick, had to make a tough decision: remain a nonprofit, or change to a for-profit model? To do so, he had to consider some key elements: ownership, transparency, and profits.
Grants and donations are not, in and of themselves, less sustainable than selling goods and services when it comes to raising money for social enterprise groups. Or so David Floyd contends in his blog post, which ponders fundraising possibilities for llama fanciers.
Matthew Yglesias, Slate’s business and economics correspondent, suggests that property tax exemptions for nonprofit property owners are a “perverse” means of subsidy.
Connecticut’s Governor Malloy believes that the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation’s “choice to rely primarily on community members” for decision-making has made the process of money distribution more difficult and wants an independent party to take over.
Forty-five years ago, young people around the world took to the streets to protest a multitude of issues. Now, a new wave of protests has emerged in the wake of the Florida jury acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin. Some people hope that the protest energies can be sustained to revive the civil rights movement and build on the embers of the Occupy movement.
With so much data around, how can we make it easy for people to absorb it? Data visualizations are worth their weight in gold.
President Barack Obama honored former president George Herbert Walker Bush for his establishment of the Points of Light awards. The White House event was a love-fest between the presidents that revolved around an anodyne vision of the nonprofit sector.
Through skillful combination of the five forms of capital—social, reputational, moral, intellectual and financial—place-based, rural foundations have the unique potential to anchor long-term change.
In October, the health insurance exchanges for individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance are scheduled to start up. For nonprofit insurers, there are challenges in getting ready to offer products. For nonprofit purchasers, there are challenges in trying to figure out what the products really are.