Arons and Bass examine the implications of new multi-disciplinary research on barriers to nonprofit advocacy: attitudes, misinformation, and lack of resources are persistent obstacles.
Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Viruses, Virus Hoaxes and “False Authorities”
Take two aspirins and drink lots of fluids? The increasing nonprofit presence on the Internet poses the problem of managing exposure to bugs engineered to annoy, disrupt or destroy.
Tracking the Miner’s Canary
Guinier explains the concepts in the book she co-authored with Gerald Torres on how race acts as an indicator of broader societal problems.
Building Effective Approaches to Governance
Based on in-depth case study research, Gill reports most boards mix and match quite successfully in their approach to governance and that clarifying roles is much more important that the actual structure itself.
Welcome | Summer 2002
Last winter in our Nonprofit Workplace issue we promised that we would return to the largely overlooked topic of race in nonprofits. Impelled by our board of practitioner-advisors, who said, “we need this approached differently. This issue is about how power is held,” we have placed race in the larger context of democracy. During the
Does Racism in Motion Have to Stay in Motion?
Inertia or movement? Status quo or social change? It’s up to us to recognize how to shift the equation of race, space and power.
Missing Link
Immigration is no more a race-neutral issue than race is a purely domestic issue. Quiroz-Martínez shows where the analysis and movements need to work together.
Building Diversity in Organizations
Seventy organizations later—the Diversity Initiative shares how organizations generally approach this work.
If You Stop Rowing? You’ll Drift Back
This case study of a major television and radio production station, WGBH, points out the importance of keeping the oars in the water. An Interview with Marita Rivero and U.T. Saunders
Leading Change: Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island
What do you get when you add a dynamic woman of color as CEO to an organization conscious of the need to change?
Growing Beyond the “Usual Suspects:” The Colorado Progressive Coalition
Some cases are harder to crack—and some progressives are less open to change than you’d think.
Navigating PILOTs: Increased Pressure for “Voluntary” Nonprofit Tax Payments
Recession and local government budget squeezes have led city after city to turn to a tempting source of revenue: nonprofit property. How should you respond?