Nonprofit funding has been evolving toward privatization, most evident recently in state and federal “social impact bond” initiatives. While this “commercialization” trend is opening up new sources of capital to the nonprofit field, the new financing tools aren’t a panacea for achieving our missions.

According to the Boston Globe, new research from MIT economists finds that scientists who are given the freedom to fail are motivated to undertake "the kind of exploration that ultimately leads to big breakthroughs and innovation."

Deaf activists file suit against Netflix for nonresponsiveness.

NPQ Newswire contributor Bruce Trachtenberg runs the Communications Network, a nonprofit membership group of communications staff working for foundations. The Network’s new survey of the state of foundation communications practices reveals that many foundations write their communications plans, but far less actually use the plans to guide their operations. 

Dear President Clinton:  You run a nonprofit foundation, why not include nonprofits as engines of economic growth in your prescriptions for getting us out of this sticky, persistent economic recession?

Class-action lawsuits typically reward plaintiffs' lawyers and their clients. But under a rule adopted in Hawaii a class of nonprofits who aren't even parties to such lawsuits stand to share in future victories.

Two grassroots nonprofits and a small Internet company are having success closing the digital divide in San Francisco.

A $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will underwrite a facility in Ghana’s capital of Accra to turn human waste from sewage into biodiesel and methane that can be used as fuel.