Nonprofits will not make a dent in racial (or other kinds of) justice until we are able to imagine and develop organizational forms that elevate subordinated voices.
Voice under Domination
Detroit Shows How to Make a Sanctuary School
The Detroit school system seeks to provide a safe learning environment for the children it teaches by declaring all school facilities to be sanctuary sites.
Report Outlines Severe Environmental and Health Racial Disparities in St. Louis
In St. Louis, asthma attacks result in Black children being admitted into the emergency rooms of hospitals at 10 times the rate of white children.
Words Matter: A Message from Texas
In the wake of last month’s racially motivated El Paso mass shooting, many Texans are assessing the link between incendiary language and anti-immigrant violence.
Remaking the Field: How Women’s Fund Donors Have Built a New Philanthropy
A new study from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Lilly examines the role of activist donors on building the women’s fund field.
Volunteer Scientists for a Day, Protectors of Waterways for Life
The work of a Michigan nonprofit aims to identify invasive aquatic species early on, before they spread to a wider area.
The Accountability Collision Course: An Interview with Tom Kochan
Kochan, the codirector of MIT’s Institute for Work and Employment Research, discusses the rapidly changing accountability trends around for-profits and nonprofits and what he sees as an impending collision between sometimes diametrically opposed forces.
How to Cocreate Your Nonprofit Brand with Your Stakeholders
“Managing nonprofit brands requires acknowledging multiple stakeholders’ involvement in processes and structures related to brand development.” This article explains the whats, the whys, and the hows.
Unbalanced: A Map of Nonprofit Stakeholders
Nonprofits exist in a “muted market” that, without correction, privileges monied or regulatory stakeholder groups. That’s a big problem for those who expect them to put their interests first.
The Accountability Imbalance: What Nonprofits Need to Change
This article looks at how stakeholder theory applies to and plays out in and around nonprofits and outlines the questions that should be central to nonprofit leaders.
Feedback and Participatory Grantmaking Are Complementary
An NPQ article on participatory grantmaking made important distinctions between feedback and two-way communication that shifts power relationships. The director of the Fund for Shared Insight responds.
Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback
Philanthropy, driven by people with wealth, has a hard time addressing problems wealth created. Participatory grantmaking, by empowering communities to make grant decisions, can help change that.