Congress has decided to cut the budget of HUD—and whack public housing funding in the process—to levels deeper than the average cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act. Go figure.

India has an increasing number of people who can be classified as “super rich,” but its philanthropy lags behind its wealth accumulation.

States are reporting increased revenues, big time. But if the economy is still in the tank, where are the new revenues coming from, and are nonprofits getting their share?

Here are 14 tips for fundraisers and they are well worth the read!

Maybe you’ve noticed NPQ’s obsessive coverage of the Occupy Wall Street folk – it is on purpose. We often do not understand how institutions work or how they can be influenced, and because of that we cannot effectively ask or demand that they stop doing the things that are harmful to us and our neighbors. We have disempowered ourselves, and there is no official 911 to call.

If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, you know it’s nearly impossible to go a day without reading or hearing the words “innovation” and “impact.” But for those of us who care about linking rigor to innovation and impact (especially impact assessment), it’s hard to find serious discussion that is more about practice and less about how savvy some of the folks who opine about these concepts want to appear. Cynthia Gibson asks—how innovative is innovation?

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For how many of us would the tax deductibility of a donation matter, especially when it is, in part, a movement to question the tax structure.

City Year co-founder bows out of Massachusetts senate race after local news outlets take him on for practices related to Be the Change.

This Halloween marks the end of Co-op Month 2011, but it also kicks off the United Nations–designated International Year of Cooperatives—opportune timing for raising a pint of the inaugural beer from Seattle’s first cooperative brewery.

Among the various people attending Occupy Wall Street protests have been well-known, skilled writers, Some of whom have banded together as “Writers for the 99%” and committed to producing a history of the movement—by sometime in December.

All 50 state attorneys general are aiming to get the banks to pay up for their illegal mortgage servicing practices that led to people losing their homes to foreclosures unnecessarily, losing opportunities to refinance and modify their mortgages, or being rushed to foreclosure much too quickly. But if the banks pay what the AGs want—a settlement of $25 billion—will nonprofits that have done the lion’s share of work helping homeowners stave off improper foreclosures be allowed to participate in the proceeds?