Vu Le knows that his opinions can upset people working in philanthropy, nonprofits and fundraising. “We perpetuate the savior complex, the othering of people, poverty tourism,” says the NonProfit AF blogger and executive director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle whose mission is to bring more leaders of color into the nonprofit sector.
On a five-to-four vote, the US Supreme Court keeps in place the current ban on placing “undue burdens” on access to abortion—for now.
An education grant–funded program being launched at five schools in Rhode Island raises concerns, once again, that philanthropy is failing to respect the knowledge of education sector practitioners in the design of its interventions.
In Philadelphia, a city where an estimated 1,200 people died from opioid overdoses in 2017, a nonprofit aims to establish a safe injection site to reduce overdose deaths. The US Attorney’s office, however, has sued the nonprofit in an effort to keep the site from opening.
Oakland, California may be the next district to join the chain of #RedforEd-supported strikes across the country. Teachers voted by a 95–5 margin this week to authorize a strike by the end of the month.
The “gut and replace” practice of the Hawaii legislature, whereby a bill’s contents can be removed and replaced with completely different language even after public hearings and committee approvals, is being challenged by nonprofit advocacy groups.
As the clock ticked down on Bennett’s fundraising, High Point stepped in with a rare gift—a donation from one college to another college of $1 million, which had been approved by a vote of the faculty.
Once again, in Memphis, we see that sometimes the job of a board of directors is to maintain integrity, even in the face of offers of philanthropic largesse. In this case, community members and teachers have come together to urge the board to reject a philanthropic offer to pay for its new superintendent search.
In Minneapolis, a city report outlines a vision to ensure that the city’s 70 neighborhood associations reflect the diversity of the communities they claim to represent. But the report’s recommendations have spurred neighborhood association resistance.
When a US congressman claimed that saving people from “illegal alien” attacks with a border wall was a higher priority than stopping mass shootings, two fathers of slain children called BS.
If a state gave grants to nonprofits but kept organization names, award amounts, and fund uses secret, it would be a scandal. But with corporations that receive state tax credits, this is business as usual. Some folks in Tennessee’s legislature, however, want this to change.
A new study from the Center for Civil Society at Johns Hopkins documents the size, shape and state of the nonprofit workforce and reveals some surprises, including the fact that nonprofits often pay better than for-profit counterparts in the same industry.