Fundraising tactics suffer from a serious disconnect between theory and practice.
Nonprofits and Metaphors: Using Language to Create Better Outcomes
Our use of certain metaphors to understand the financial crisis may doom already-weak nonprofits.
Fifteen Questions to Certify That You Are a Social Innovator
How high do you rank as a social innovator? Take this fun quiz to find out.
The Problem of Solo Civic Engagement: An Interview with Doug McAdam
Does Teach for America produce more civic engagement from its graduates?
Charitable Giving Falls . . . Again
When the Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University release their annual tabulation of charitable giving in the United States, the results spark a year-long dialogue. Addressing charity and philanthropy during the height of the worst economic recession to hit the nation in 80 years, Giving USA 2010 is full of answers—and questions.
The Nonprofit Ethicist | Summer 2010
How can organizations—which are designed to “do good”—also “do well?”
Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements
It’s a wonder that social-movement networks survive long enough to make an impact. Over time they are likely to face many different, complicated political contexts. What’s the secret sauce of these organizing efforts?
Giving Back Nonprofit-Style
Corporate America Gets Precious Advice
The Nonprofit Ethicist | Fall 2010
When your boss hires an underachieving family member, what do you do?
The Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit Financial Apocalypse
A Timely Reprint from the NPQ Archives
NPQ has done any number of stories recently on nonprofits, their buildings, their debt, and finally the restructuring they are doing in the wake of the recession, so we wanted to rerun this excellent piece on those issues by Clara Miller in the hope that it may help with your own considerations in these areas.
Welcome | Spring 2010
Welcome to the Nonprofit Quarterly’s Spring 2010 issue. By now I hope that you have noticed that the Nonprofit Quarterly online is new and improved.
Nonprofit Newswire | March 19, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, hospital’s tax exemption yanked, the state of social media fundraising, fiscal reform not slash and burn and more.