For a while, after its work took national center stage, the founder of Southwest Key Programs, Juan Sanchez, tried to spin a story of his own humble roots. The media and some federal agencies, however, uncovered a tangle of relationships, high executive pay for family members, and profiteering.
“If we’re going to give a lot of money, we’ll make darn sure they spend it in a way that goes along with our intent. And if they make a wrong turn and start doing things we don’t agree with, we withdraw funding.”—David Koch
By limiting returns to 100 times their initial investment, organizers believe they can have their profits and maintain their mission focus, too. We’ll see.
Our Ottawa-based correspondent, Keenan Wellar, is dedicated to covering issues in the Canadian nonprofit and philanthropic sector. This week, he takes on an Oxfam Canada assessment of Trudeau’s government that specifically measures its progress on women’s equality and gender rights.
A Green New Deal, argue a pair of researchers, is necessary, but it cannot happen without expanded public ownership in energy and finance.
A group of philanthropists gather in the Bay Area to consider what current global crises of inequality and climate change require of the field.
Decolonize this Place protestors demand that MoMA divest from private prisons and weapons manufacturing.
A new study finds that the #RedforEd strikes have reversed the trend of declining teacher salaries, but inflation-adjusted salaries still often trail those of a decade ago.
The University of Texas at Austin attempted to overhaul courses by moving online, but it didn’t go as planned.
Harvard University is skating on thin ice as it continues to flip off the City of Boston.
A hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was bombed again last week, while DR Congo battles an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
Speaking at the opening plenary of Harvard University’s 20th annual social enterprise conference, author and social critic Anand Giridharadas called for jettisoning impact rhetoric and placing our energy instead into social movements, political activism, and structural change.