Rocco Landesman, the sometimes-controversial Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is resigning, leaving behind a distinctly economic orientation to his leadership post.

Have you noticed how the jobs issue has faded from public and political attention? Is there a public forum where top leaders are willing to hear what nonprofits have to say on the subject?

Fox News sees worker uprisings at Walmart as a Soros-funded endeavor with MoveOn as an intermediary. Sound familiar?

Warfare in Gaza cannot but affect innocent civilians, displacing, harming, or killing noncombatants. Thirty-eight aid agencies announced that a humanitarian disaster was imminent if hostilities didn’t end.

The social sector – possibly more than any other – is steeped in gratitude. It is the gravy that covers and flavors everything that we in the nonprofit sector do.

Sequestration debates should be a clarion call to the nonprofit sector about the need to educate the public about crucial federal programs that nonprofits typically deliver.

A must-see video by Leighton Woodhouse’s Dog Day Video designed to raise money for Pacifica Radio Archives brings us short snippets of the powerful voices of Paul Robeson, Harvey Milk, Bob Dylan, Rosa Parks Caesar Chavez and others.

There is a burgeoning debate happening about how to eradicate poverty in the U.S., with perspectives from the left and right – much needed in the aftermath of the radio silence during the presidential election.

In Sandy’s aftermath, foundations are calling on philanthropists to help preserve a robust nonprofit sector.

Is there something still there in the Invisible Children movement? Or is the Kony 2012 movement so narrowly focused that the mainstream press has deemed it yesterday’s news?

Black swans are “large events that are both unexpected and highly consequential.” We don’t see them coming, but they shape our world.

Some civil society and human rights activists are vowing to ignore a Russian law that would require NGO’s with foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.”