AN NPQ CLASSIC:
Nonprofits offer precisely the connections and meaning for which people yearn. Schambra exhorts nonprofits to cultivate these characteristics and not lose themselves to mimicking government or business.
Welcome to the Winter 2007 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Transcending the Organization.” In this edition you will find articles proposing that sustainable nonprofit organizations as we now understand them are not the goal of our work, nor are they always even the most effective vehicles for achieving our missions. Sometimes, in fact, organizations—and our
The most substantive decisions on your organization’s governance is likely happening far from the board room. How should your governance systems respond?
Centro Presente, a leading organization in the immigrant justice movement, energized its mission and constituency when it moved from a top-down board to a governance structure that engaged a broad array of stakeholders.
The strange new mutants of philanthropy.
Two overeducated brothers fight it out on one of the most frustrating conversations among nonprofits and their funders.
Who has the Gloria Wise scandal damaged? The author traces the ripples to give us a sense of the social impact of one organization gone wrong.
Recent research shows that nonprofit organizations are not complying with a law that does not apply to them. Who cares?
E-Filing of 990s will become the new standard. Don’t be left behind.
Funders and nonprofits who seek to enrich our democracy must adopt citizen-centered approaches, driven by and for the people they affect, if they want to move from “outputs” to sustainable change.
In this edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly, we address how issues of social class affect the workings of nonprofits, and how that affects the viability of whole communities of people.