Sometimes philanthropists — even the most well-intentioned ones — can “capture” the social movements they fund and then steer grassroots organizations and activists away from their original missions. We explore this phenomenon of “movement capture” by looking at one of the most celebrated achievements of the civil rights movement: the 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring
A Boston organizing campaign offers lessons in effective coalition building and highlights the often untapped potential for local government and agencies to use the power of the purse to shift practices throughout the food system.
A zoo and its “friends” organization part ways in a not-too-friendly fashion.
Even as some of the state’s largest health systems move to a minimum wage of $15/hour, the state is raising the minimum for home health care workers where the turnover rate is an appalling 60 percent to only $12.38. What do lawmakers not get about workforce dynamics?
A new study uses census tract records to identify where resident displacement has been most intense. Between 2000 and 2010, a minimum of 135,000 Black and Latinx residents were forced to move due to gentrification pressures.
You have been sent there to do a job and raise money for a cause you believe in. How much should you protest, given the greater good you are trying to do?
Nashville’s Metro Council agrees to pay Amazon $500 per job in Nashville per year for seven years. But many councilmembers call for an overhaul of the entire corporate tax abatement process.
A new report co-published by the Asset Funders Network and the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap Initiative looks to public policy and philanthropy to reduce the wealth gap between female- and male-headed households.
A large-scale study of the artists exhibited in major US art museums has found that 85 percent of those artists are white, and 87 percent of them male.
Judging by early indications, nonprofits should consider this a time where their donor bases must be increased and retained with a strong sense of common cause—but also one for us all to get behind the universal tax deduction.
“Crowding out” occurs when the aggregate of potential donors assumes an organization ought to be paid for by another entity—often the government.
This “Voices from the Field” explores the potential advantages of shifting from a traditional leadership model focused on one person or a small cadre to one where authority is shared among all who do the work.