The most substantive decisions on your organization’s governance is likely happening far from the board room. How should your governance systems respond?
System-Wide Governance for Community Empowerment
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.
Branson, Google, and Clinton: Philanthropy’s X-Men
The strange new mutants of philanthropy.
Which Light is Right? Healthy Coexistence or Too Many Nonprofits?
Two overeducated brothers fight it out on one of the most frustrating conversations among nonprofits and their funders.
Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club: Implications of the Scandal
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.
Nonprofit Breaches of Sarbanes-Oxley: The Terrible Truth
Recent research shows that nonprofit organizations are not complying with a law that does not apply to them. Who cares?
E-Filing Update
E-Filing of 990s will become the new standard. Don’t be left behind.
Citizens at the Center: A Refocused Approach to Civic Engagement
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.
Welcome to Fall 2006
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.
The Question of Class
The way nonprofits uphold monied influence is, unfortunately, by replicating hierarchies of elite influence and decision making. In so doing we short-sightedly gut our own populist power bases and, as a result and not coincidentally, provide unimpeded avenues for the domination of public policy by class-based power.
The Third Sector as a Protective Layer for Capitalism
One reason capitalism does not collapse, despite its many weaknesses and valiant opposition movements, is the nonprofit sector.
Battered Agencies
“Battered agencies” is a term that can describe local or indigenous agencies striving to serve low-income communities that are hindered by the same types of risk factors facing the families they seek to help. Although this article was first published by NPQ in 2006, it seems even more relevant today as social safety net organizations are stressed by the demand for service and the demands of regulators.