Is the way we are currently using the capital available to us working during a period of declining social spending and greater inequality? Gar Alperovitz poses another way that might more effectively enhance community wellbeing.
Insular Pilot Programs or To-Scale Response?
Cohen warns that many community capital ventures, such as CDCs would not be possible without the federal support that was hard won with national advocacy.
Boards Behaving Badly: Observations from the Field
Mid-Iowa Community Action’s (MICA) work with the boards of community action agencies provides readers with a valuable perspective on the systemic problems faced by boards that lead to ineffectiveness and, perhaps, crisis.
Nonprofit Economy Update: More Money for More Organizations (But Maybe Not for Yours)
The economy is recovering, but is the nonprofit sector? It depends on where you sit. Why are some nonprofits thriving while others are just surviving?
Funding Sources and Influence: Assessing the Tradeoffs
Renz provides a different framework for thinking about the tradeoffs between different funding sources and their influence on the organization.
Straw to Gold: Three Years On
For three years now, the Nonprofit Quarterly has charted the progress and response of five nonprofits as they have creatively confronted shifts in the environment. A little over a year since our last update, each of these organizations has something to teach the rest of us.
The Enduring Connection: Individual Donors and Nonprofit Organizations
We asked some well-known fundraising advisors help us identify groups doing a good job with grassroots fundraising. We didn’t want fancy but we did want effective.
How We Survived An Embezzlement
What do you do when you discover you’ve been embezzled? Erickson recounts her organization’s experience and how it made the best of a terrible situation. NPQ reprints this instructive article from the Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
Nonprofits Help Make Us Good Citizens
A new source of data allows us to examine the relationship between voluntary activity and citizen engagement.
High Stakes: Why and How Nonprofits Must Engage on State Tax Policy
As anti-tax forces become increasingly trenchant across the country, some nonprofits are mobilizing their constituents on revenue issues, and winning.
Planned Ghouling: The Dark Side
After many years in nonprofits and foundations, I thought I knew almost every aspect of how modern fundraising works. That was before September when I found out that my favorite aunt, Great Aunt Alma, was seduced by a handsome, slick-talking development officer from Mammon University.
Welcome to Spring 2005
Welcome to the Spring 2005 issue. This issue’s feature section was fun to put together and, we hope, will be just as much fun for you to read. We think of it as Nonprofits: the Reality Show, because it takes real life stories of six organizations and presents them as snapshots in time—warts and all—although