In Chicago, three in four manufacturing firms are owned by people 55 and older. A majority of these firms lack succession plans. A new nonprofit-public sector partnership aims to change that by setting itself up as a fair broker that can help ensure Chicago’s manufacturing industry remains both in place and locally owned as current owners retire.
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit integrated healthcare system, is investing $200 million in housing to better address some of the social determinants of health that affect the 12.2 million people it insures.
The community values of Modesto, California are brought into question when a for-profit business is chosen for a city maintenance contract over a small nonprofit employing adults with disabilities.
The leading museum trade association announces a $4 million grant-funded initiative to support a more diverse museum sector leadership at both the board and staff levels.
A lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general reveals that Sackler family members—leading philanthropists in the US—were very “hands-on” at family-owned Purdue Pharma, a company that has earned most of its profits through the sale of the prescription opioid OxyContin.
A quick search into the NPQ annals reveals dozens of illuminating articles on the pros and cons of corporate-nonprofit relationships. Sponsorships of this sort are nothing new, but some partnerships raise more eyebrows than others.
While large United Way chapters tend to get more press attention, the decline in workplace giving is affecting smaller chapters as well, as this case from Florida reveals.
In Mississippi, a bill to empower the state’s rural electric co-ops to offer broadband service to underserved rural counties passes the state House of Representatives on a 115–3 vote. The bill now proceeds to the state senate.
An international nonprofit partners with a Catholic Charities chapter in Michigan to create a member-based warehouse that enable nonprofits needing supplies to acquire low-cost goods from companies seeking to dispense with surplus inventory.
“If you are homeless, you can’t sleep here” is the clear message of benches with center armrests newly installed in downtown locations in Iowa City. A nonprofit that works with the city’s homeless population calls city officials to account for their choice.
This classic article from a leading scholar on nonprofit governance has, over the past few years, transformed much of the conversation about where the substantive governance of your nonprofit really resides—quite far from the boardroom. Be prepared to reconsider many of your assumptions about nonprofit boards of directors.
Judge Furman deemed Commerce Secretary Ross’s insertion of a question about citizenship in the 2020 census questionnaire “arbitrary and capricious” and out of bounds, noting that federal documents confirmed that the question, if asked, would lead to a significant undercounting of Latinx residents.