Echoing Green uses these elements as signposts to select social entrepreneurs to fund.

A statute currently under review is keeping younger people from helping in the reconstruction effort in New Jersey.

Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina has terminated the state’s lease with the N.C. Indian Cultural Center. The Lumbee Tribe has first dibs on buying it before it goes up for public sale. But a local Native American athlete and celebrity says he put 14 years and $2.8M into improving the Center, and he wants that money back.

For the first time, hundreds of female attendees will be welcomed at the Boy Scouts’ national Jamboree. Is it a means to promote inclusivity or a diversion from the recent waves of controversy? What do readers think is going on?

Self-made wealthy on the Forbes 400 are more generous than their peers from wealthy families. But are they more generous than America’s poor?

Giving USA and The BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts both suggest funding for the cultural sector is on the rebound. But there’s still cause for concern.

NPQ has talked before about the incredible usefulness of well-placed political art with a sense of humor. Now, here comes the July 8/15 issue of the New Yorker with a cover featuring Bert and Ernie watching TV coverage of the Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. And it is very cute!

A recent New York Times profile of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales highlights Wales’s vision of an open-source online encyclopedia and shows how it came to life through a global online community now totaling 80,000 volunteers. With regular online forums and annual offline events such as “Wikimania” now taking on a life of their own, Wikipedia has become a model for volunteer engagement for nonprofits of all sizes.

How a combination of stimulus dollars, layers of federal tax credits and private donations expanded a health center to meet its community’s needs.

A local Boston artist has crafted a work of art from the detritus of urban living that has been described as “very personal” and universal.

Republicans have succeeded in getting the Government Accountability Office to agree to audit Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Nonprofit Quarterly has some ideas about what lines of inquiry might be fruitful.

When it comes to judging the success of a nonprofit, the truly important data are seldom found in the organization’s financial statements.