In a wide-ranging conversation, a group of community-based practitioners discuss both the potential and pitfalls of partnering with nonprofit anchor institutions—including hospitals, universities, and faith-based institutions—to achieve community goals.
As the Wizard of Oz reminds us, sometimes it pays for a nonprofit board to take a look behind the curtain.
A US Supreme Court decision reinforces the separate and highly unequal “due process” system that immigrants face.
In California, juvenile crime is down—way down. But the state still spends $15 billion a year on detaining young offenders, even as public schools are desperate for resources.
The American Journalism Project will be selecting recipients for support as early as this summer. The project’s ultimate goal includes raising $1 billion and creating a national movement around local news journalism.
In North Carolina, following on the heels of legislation passed in Mississippi earlier this year, 34 state legislators have cosponsored a bill that would enable the state’s 26 electric co-ops to use existing fiber optic cables to deliver high-speed internet to rural residents.
Chick-Fil-A Foundation’s ongoing financial support for multiple religious organizations with anti-LGBTQ employment policies and educational teachings runs counter to its 2012 statement that it “ceased donating to organizations that promote discrimination, specifically against LGBT civil rights.”
The Sackler family, founders of Purdue Pharma, faces a reckoning this week as several institutions distance themselves from what they seem to consider tainted philanthropy.
USA Gymnastics has lost all credibility with its constituency by spending more time and energy trying to look like they’ve changed than actually changing. Two of their most recent efforts at addressing sexual abuse in the sport may be too little, too late.
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.