Teen Vogue breaks down the various levels at which activists work and suggests that those activists take measure of where they are aiming their efforts.
Reform, Resistance, Rebellion, or Revolution: What’s Your Nonprofit’s Call to Action?
The Intersection of Corporate Philanthropy and Private Sector Lobbying
A new study reinforces the impact that corporate donations have on policy outcomes through strategic nonprofit partnerships.
Can Nonprofits Help Public Agencies Adopt More People-Centered Approaches?
We all know that addressing social problems requires an approach that is both comprehensive and sensitive to context. But getting social service agencies, governed by individual line items, to adopt integrated approaches is a challenge.
Hopkins Buys the Newseum Building: A Two-fer Nonprofit Strategy
For the small sum of $372.5 million, Johns Hopkins purchases from the Newseum prime Pennsylvania Avenue real estate between the White House and the Capitol. For Hopkins, it establishes the school as a major player in Washington DC. For the Newseum, the cash infusion may give the financial struggling institution a new lease on life.
CZI Steps Forward to Take On Affordable Housing
The Chan Zuckerberg effort, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, will establish a large fund dedicated to developing and preserving affordable housing.
Civil Rights Institute Restores Award to Angela Davis but Remains Vague
After a national and an intense local outcry, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has reversed itself, issuing a statement about lessons learned. What might those lessons be?
Reframing Narratives, Resetting Reality: A Conversation with Mackenzie Price of the FrameWorks Institute
In this conversation with the Nonprofit Quarterly, Price talks about how narratives emerge, how they get used in the world, and how to recognize, interrupt, and reorient them, because, as she says, every time you interrupt the false narrative, you put something else into the collective consciousness.
A Cost Of Med School Debt: Poor Patients, No Doctors
Over the next decade, the American Association of Medical Colleges is projecting a drastic decrease in the number of primary care physicians in the US, which could result in a shortage of 15,000 to 50,000 doctors nationwide. Many suspect the sheer cost of medical school is driving students to choose higher-earning specialties over primary care.
New Partnership Supports Native American Reporting on the Environment
The Native American Journalists Association announced a partnership with the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources to promote Native involvement in the national conversation around environmental issues.
Public Annoyance Grows with Showy Philanthropic (and Other) Excesses
Our world appears filled with incautious billionaires who don’t notice that the worm has begun to turn.
What Can Nonprofits Learn from ESOPs?
For nonprofits involved in economic and business development, and those concerned about the wealth gap and strengthening communities, the role and emergence of ESOPs is not to be underestimated, as employee ownership is poised to be a major economic factor in the years to come.
Higher Ed Board Proposes “Stress Tests” for Private Colleges in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education has approved a plan to monitor the closings of small private colleges and universities in the commonwealth, but is it the right strategy?