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Nonprofit Newswire | August 28, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: re-knitting the safety nets, raising the benefits bar, and the increased demand for temporary workers.
Nonprofit Newswire | August 27, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: waning volunteerism, dying cities, and celebrity museums.
How This Country Continues to Miss the Point about Immigration
How can this nation continue to be so mystifyingly confused, contradictory, and sometimes downright incoherent about immigrants and immigration? The Summer 2009 issue of Nonprofit Quarterly is devoted to the challenges faced by nonprofits in serving, representing, and advocating for immigrant populations in the midst of a confusing public discourse. The authors in the issue describe the obstacles of punitive state and local laws, hostile public opinion, and chaotic shifts and reversals in national approaches to immigration–and what creative, inventive, intrepid nonprofits around the nation are doing to counter these conditions.
Nonprofit Newswire | August 26, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: giving charity a bad name, Cash for Clunkers puts the kibosh on car donations, and the very real and human effects of economic downturn.
Amid the Contentious Politics of Immigration, a Community Organizes
Arguably, the most important challenge for immigrant communities is to detoxify the political landscape.
Nonprofit Newswire | August 25, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: depressions economic and psychological, sighting land in the housing crisis, and nonprofit scandal hits the big time!
Nonprofit Newswire | August 21, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: denying unethical funds when times are tough, nonprofits deliver better care than for profits, and finding new revenue in a new situation.
How Nonprofits Can Identify Leverage Points for Change
In the category of “be careful what you ask for” is the “theater of the absurd” – like town hall meetings related to health care reform. How public discourse gets quite that far off track is up for interpretation but I had to appreciate this exchange from Barney Frank’s recent meeting in my own home state.
Tactical Mapping: How Nonprofits Can Identify the Levers of Change
This article, from the highly regarded Center for Victims of Torture, describes in some detail this diagnostic tool they developed for local organizers to understand and influence the complex political systems that support or tolerate torture. The mapping process is transferable to other complex political issues.
Nonprofit Newswire | August 20, 2009
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today: ad campaign philanthropy, and getting righted again in the nonprofit waters, post-scandal.