Economic development incentives cost states and localities up to $90 billion a year, often starving education and social services for resources in the process. Gradually, albeit far too slowly, the field is coming to recognize the folly of developing the local economy by throwing tax dollars at corporations.
We are running this classic NPQ article today in preparation for a series of articles from the spring 2019 edition of Nonprofit Quarterly on the role of nonprofits in democracy. The idea that the strength and influence of nonprofits is centrally contained in their practice of democracy is too often lost—traded away for immediate gratification—but the cost for nonprofits and communities could not be higher.
Those found to be in violation of “riot boosting” in one of three new laws in South Dakota’s “Pipeline Package” could be subject to some combination of up to 25 years of prison time and civil penalties of up to $50,000.
According to the New York state attorney general’s office, in 2014 the Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma, producer and marketer of OxyContin, came up with a new business idea. Codenamed “Project Tango,” the plan was to sell treatments for the opioid addiction that OxyContin caused.
The next mayor of Kansas City is facing a potential sea change in the way the municipality looks at tax incentives for large property development.
The New Haven city government, borrowing from a Cleveland model, aims to create a network of worker-owned businesses that can employ local residents and build community wealth by tapping into the spending of local nonprofit hospitals.
Often, algorithms serve to embed racial biases in technology rather than limit them. If designed intentionally, however, this need not be the case.
This SIPA webinar discusses how to generate revenue and grow your business using the membership model.
The Rockefeller Foundation is reportedly winding down its Resilient Cities program, just as record flooding in the Midwest makes plain for all to see how much climate adaptation work is needed.
A host of new books and films share a common theme: In a time when space is increasingly commercialized, the role of the public library becomes ever more important.
The Associated Press style guide tells journalists: when you see racism, say racism.
A who’s-who list of leading academics tells Yale that either the university adequately funds its program on ethnicity, race, and migration—or they are out.