As study after study shows, for nonprofits interested in raising consistent individual donations from small donors, there is no substitute for direct engagement.

An amended complaint from New York State adds eight members of the Sackler family as co-defendants. The suit alleges that the Sackler family has shifted hundreds of millions of dollars offshore, largely to shield funds from legal claimants.

A public radio station advisory board and its host university struggle to develop a mutually agreeable governance model.

Even as worker activism through movements such as the Fight for $15 and #RedforEd is rising, US workers also have to fend off attacks to further restrict labor rights.

Perhaps Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wishes to strike the “for all” from “liberty and justice for all” in the Pledge of Allegiance.

At Tufts University, a former US attorney has been engaged to investigate whether and to what extent dependence on Sackler donations made the university complicit in marketing the use of the opioid OxyContin over a two-decade period.

Youth incarceration is falling, but the gap in incarceration rates between white youth and youth of color is rising. Changing this, an Urban Institute report contends, requires a shift in approach from preventing crime to promoting overall well-being.

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.