NPQ looks at those praised for their ability to shake things up as “disruptive innovators”—including one very surprising recipient. (Here’s a hint: it’s not the dancing fellow in the sunglasses.)
Several candidates for Tom Menino’s seat in Boston City Hall have ties to the nonprofit world, with two having been fellows of the Barr Foundation and its highly praised networking initiative in particular.
As donors rush to give to those organizations assisting in Sichuan Province after the most recent earthquake, independent groups find themselves receiving more than the Red Cross Society of China.
Much of the most valuable programs and services of the federal government are delivered by nonprofits. That goes double for U.S. humanitarian and development assistance, where NGOs are critical players in delivering foreign aid to countries in need. Shouldn’t the USAID budget be a top priority advocacy item for the U.S. nonprofit sector?
Parents confronted a representative from the New York State Education Department regarding a new database constructed to share student information.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the insurance exchanges are meant to give employers and individuals a number of competing providers. How will competition happen in states with nearly monopolistic market dominance by one provider?
The Robin Hood Foundation launches a new advertising campaign catering to NYC communities on Monday—“to Fight Poverty Like a New Yorker”. What up, 212!
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Citizen Hearing Foundation. Its five-day mission: to investigate the possibilities of new life and alien civilizations purportedly covered up by the federal government…and to boldly go where few politicians have gone before!
This article describes how a $600M for-profit chain was rescued by a smaller group of nonprofits, given a new social purpose, and returned to surplus.
Princeton economics professor Uwe Reinhardt asks a question of nonprofit hospitals that might be asked of all nonprofits: why do we make transparency so difficult to access?
Independent Sector releases its annual valuation of volunteering time, as calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ statistics. Useful?
Google’s new mobile app aims to make fundraising easier for nonprofits by linking charities to potential donors.