We look forward to the day when there are no more stories about nonprofits resisting minimum and living wage ordinances, as they are doing in Delaware.
Nonprofit Resistance to a Raised Minimum Wage Is Just Wrongheaded
A State Agency Doing What Makes Sense instead of What’s Contractually Correct
North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety misdirected a portion of $9 million in state money after 2016’s Hurricane Matthew. The state’s emergency management director is pleading ignorance.
Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System
Can social service information become as accessible to users as online restaurant reviews? There’s still a way to go, but a group of San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits believes it’s making progress.
As Immigrants Face Attacks, Where Stands Philanthropy?
With immigrants facing attacks on multiple fronts, how best can philanthropy respond?
First US YWCA Will Trade Historic Building for Racial Justice
The YWCA in Boston’s Back Bay is selling its iconic, historic building to help make a more racially equitable future. That’s their mission and they’re sticking to it.
First Amendment or Second-Guessing? An Alabama Donor Conundrum
Does your nonprofit have a gift policy? More and more often, it’s important.
An IU Study Shows the Shape of US Disaster Giving
The top two factors that drive disaster giving are the scale of the event and personal connection to it.
A Different Kind of Grant Program in the Richness of Chicago
Celebrating grassroots leaders with unfettered money is a great idea. We just wish the 14 awards were more sustaining.
Co-op Fever Comes to Butte, Montana
A grocery store died in March, and local residents responded. The food co-op coming to replace the shuttered store now has significant momentum, with 165 people attending an initial organizing meeting.
Starving the Social Infrastructure in Louisville
As Louisville waits for Microsoft to alight in its midst, its social infrastructure is being increasingly weakened. Is this any way to run economic development?
Social Determinants of Health Depend on Healthy Governance
Can it be that our communities are sick because our civic governance systems are unhealthy? It’s beginning to look that way.
Campaign Against Single-Use Plastics Gains Traction
Canada has joined the European Union, India, and other nations in committing to ban single-use plastics by 2021.