Keenan Wellar is our new point correspondent for Canada’s civil sector. Today, he takes on the debates around a new structure proposed for journalism organizations that’s neither nonprofit nor for-profit.
Claiming editorial interference, the founder and editor of a respected monthly Vatican women’s magazine has quit, along with her entire female editorial board.
How should nonprofits address the problem of a tainted donation? What are the legalities of rejecting or giving back a large gift, and how can nonprofits protect themselves from having their own reputations sullied by a donor?
Nieman Lab looks at how staff at four nonprofit news organizations harnessed NewsMatch to achieve fundraising success at the end of last year. With the help of toolkits and other resources, these journalists experimented with fundraising and the discomfort that can come with highlighting your own work.
Ideas about boards and governance are underdeveloped in the nonprofit sector, leaving many nonprofits relatively weak in comparison to their true potential. That’s why we want to invite you to two days of a different kind of discussion about governance, one that recognizes that the old control-based adages have headed us down many wrong paths, leaving us stuck in a thicket of rules without much meaning, and creates a sense that there is an expansive and powerful way to govern civil society organizations that has little to do with the boardrooms of yesteryear.
A messy split between a zoo and its “friends” society in Wisconsin gets messier.
The Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma enter into a $270 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma. But 1,600 other cases against Purdue and nearly two dozen other companies for the opioid crisis are still pending nationwide.
California Institute of the Arts, better known as CalArts, faces a reckoning over its high and increasing tuition.
Will the US Supreme Court rule on the limits to gerrymandering, or will it manage to punt the issue to other courts yet again?
The word “privilege” has been thrown around a lot lately. But does its widespread use (and the call-out culture that shames those accused) diminish the power of the word and negatively affect the cause of social justice?
As the dependence of nonprofits on high-net-worth individuals has increased, so too have the abuses that this power asymmetry brings.
In Montreal, a major museum now employs a full-time art therapist, whose patients are referred by physicians as part of their overall treatment plans.