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.
With the reduced revenue pressures on many nonprofit budgets, and the scrutiny of overhead expenses sometimes professional development can be put off or even neglected completely but at what cost?
Scratch the surface of the nonprofit sector in any given community and, chances are, some names will turn up again and again as board members. How can nonprofit leaders break the “usual suspects” habit and invite new people into the boardroom?
Who should buy the land where 300 Native Americans were massacred in 1890?
As university commercial interests expand, it becomes murkier whether universities are legitimate nonprofit efforts.
Nonprofit storytelling is meant to capture a transformative incident representative of an organization’s impact and use it to highlight the group’s broader effects. But without describing a model for how an outcome was achieved, how will people know that it can be done again?
Transparency International measures the perception of corruption in nations across the globe. Typically, those corrupt institutions are the police, the judiciary, and political parties. TI also examines perceptions of corruption of NGOs, but the results are difficult to interpret.