It is essential that evaluations of grassroots efforts be designed to help organizations learn and build capacity.

Are politicians and nonprofits consenting partners in the federal faith-based initiative? An investigative report of this loudly touted program shows it may be far less substantive and effective than was originally promised.

Yes, we have 990s, but also a raft of other data that is available for those who want to do nonprofit analysis.

Cohort analysis is an essential step in strategic planning; instructions and spreadsheet included.

There are a number of aspects of the culture of foundations that contribute to their ambivalence.  Tom David poses a few questions, and makes a few recommendations, to help improve the nonprofit/foundation relationship.

Marijo asked if I knew how contributions were made from the charitable gift funds at the big companies like Fidelity, and that’s how the whole mess started.

Web 2.0 and open source have opened new potential at lower risk for nonprofits who need to build capacity at lower cost.

Many nonprofits used to be able to operate in dark corners like the small purviews of a particular city or region. That is, they would not necessarily be judged against peer programs in other cities nor, necessarily, against a generalized assumption about what constituted good practice. Local observation, reputation, and all important relationships were first

Technology offers nonprofit organizations the opportunity to design and implement more effective evaluations for improving program performance while doing so at lower cost.

Welcome to the Nonprofit Quarterly’s first “Best of the Quarterly” issue. This marks NPQ’s sixth anniversary and such a retrospective is well past due. Thanks to our contributors, the NPQ has published some classics that stand the test of time in terms of their usefulness, and which provide a unique new perspective on issues that

If foundations have no market forces and few legal constraints to hold them accountable, is it any wonder that their evaluative efforts have fallen short? Can the value of “expressive philanthropy” be measured?