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Foundation Stories: Why We Fund Infrastructure
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The Future of the Infrastructure
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Why Every Foundation Should Fund Infrastructure
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The upward trend in the number of foundations providing support for building the capacity of their individual grantees, however, has not been accompanied by a parallel level of interest in supporting the organizations providing this capacity-building assistance. These oganizations are the intermediaries working at the local, state, regional, or national levels that offer management support, advocacy, data, training, technical assistance, and other services to grantees and thousands of other nonprofits that benefit from them.
A Call to Action
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Integrity Issues in your Organization?
e-Newsletter | Often, when we ourselves feel that unhappy frisson of cognitive dissonance that comes from being in a situation where we are either being asked to help support a misrepresentation or at least are being subtly or not so subtly pressured not to question it, it has already become embarrassing or difficult or dangerous to name the issue involved. That is why our organizations need to be all about challenge, truth-telling, and diversity.
Does the Law Protect Whistle-Blowers?
Despite everything you’ve read and heard about the applicability of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to nonprofit whistle-blowing, the 2002 law’s protections appear to offer flimsy protection from employer retaliation against nonprofit employees who identify misconduct. That’s why the creation of a corporate culture that values and protects nonprofit employee whistle-blowing—internal and external—is so important, because
The Nonprofit Ethicist: Winter 2007
Dear Nonprofit Ethicist, I hope you can shed some light on a situation that is very disturbing to me. My former church hired a member to act as project manager on some construction work. He has tax liens outstanding and has worked under the table for years at various jobs. The church made the checks
Whistle-Blowers by the Numbers
The nonprofit sector does not record statistics on many accountability indicators, but it should. One vital statistic to track would be the treatment of whistle-blowers and the disposition of their complaints. Without this information, we have to imagine the fate of nonprofit whistle-blowers extrapolated from weak government and corporate data. First, how important are whistle-blowers
A Conversation with California Congressman Xavier Becerra
A former Legal Services attorney, California Congressman Xavier Becerra is the only Latino on the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. But it is his distinctive voice and perspective, not his ethnicity, that has vaulted him to a position of visibility on issues of charity and philanthropy. The Ways and Means Committee is the
Countrywide’s Philanthropic Legacy
Poor Angelo Mozilo’s Countrywide Financial Corporation has had to sell everything, including the proverbial kitchen sink, to the Bank of America for $4 billion, $20 billion less than its estimated value only a year earlier. The woes of the nation’s largest subprime mortgage lender have helped destabilize the homeownership futures of millions of families facing
Still Fighting the “Last Plantation”
The subtext of film The Great Debaters was the dual life of the character played by Denzel Washington, by day a professor at Wiley College in Texas coaching the debate team, by night an organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, established during the Great Depression to help black—and white—farmers.