In the instant when the board tells the executive director there’s no longer a place for them at the organization they founded, questions arise: Who’s right? How did it come to this? How to respond? Sometimes, the public never gets an answer.
This year’s new congressional class has been widely hailed for its diversity. But the stories told by our nation’s museums too often remain the whitewashed variety, as the daughter of one member of that class explains.
TREC, a new skilled-volunteerism intermediary, deploys ex-engineers into the Albuquerque community to support nonprofits and startups.
In March of last year, a San Diego Union-Tribune investigation discovered that Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego had not actually given a house away in its annual raffle for a decade. Now, it guarantees it will give one away, but many area residents, burned before, aren’t eager to buy tickets.
The nonprofit Mainspring Academy in Jacksonville, Florida announced its closure at the end of the academic year with a brief, impersonal letter and email that angered parents. Was there a better way?
A university president credits the dramatic turnaround of Harrisburg University from 2013 to 2019 to “flat” governance, which refers to organizations having little or no middle management between staff and executives.
It is not enough for nonprofit boards to help manage risk; nor should they fear it. In fact, as nonprofit governance expert David Renz explains in this classic from 2017, “The imperative here is to embrace risk leadership.”
Remaking the Economy: Building a More Democratic Economy Nonprofits are often formed to address problems that have deep economic roots. If the economic and social structure as a whole is decaying, the problems being addressed by nonprofits filling this gap may only worsen. But there are ways to affect the economy, on local and national levels—ways to stop what may
Do we need a statement of ethics for the recipients of donations?
If air travel continues to expand at its current pace, it will soon consume one-quarter of the Paris agreement’s total planetary carbon budget. Those of us who attend gatherings and conferences can alter our behavior to change that trend.
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is making it clear that he wants nonprofits to observe transparency principles, and he is ready to push for new rules to ensure it happens.
In the face of a decade of persistent organizing, the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors unanimously voted to rename a road under Fruitvale Station after Oscar Grant, a young man and father who was killed on the station platform in 2009.