Would you trade your self-determination for needed services? Should you be required to do so?
Does Conservatorship Help or Harm California’s Homeless Population?
Mission Haiku: The Poetry of Mission Statements
Your organization’s mission statement deserves to be elegant, precise, and even poetic, because these words embody the reason your nonprofit exists. History has seen few more exacting wordsmiths than the great haiku poets, and nonprofits can learn much from them.
Remaking the Economy: Who Controls the Capital?
Watch this webinar to learn how nonprofits and movement activists are advancing strategies to address the economic and social inequalities of our time.
Special Message: The Risk to Democracy in Trump’s National Emergency
We believe this message lays out the danger embedded in the moment more succinctly and powerfully than anything else.
JPMorgan Chase Expands Business Lending Program in Communities of Color
JP Morgan Chase, an institution with a history of stripping assets of people of color, is now expanding a program that has helped 200 entrepreneurs of color get business financing.
The Exciting Philanthropic Prospect of Funding Nonprofits with Problems
The Rick Bayless Family Foundation has made its first three Stepping Stone Grants of $150,000 each to nonprofit Chicago-based theaters with issues.
Denver Teachers Achieve Major Advances in Strike Settlement
In Denver, teachers make major gains after a short 4-day strike. The Denver strike is part of a broader #RedforEd wave. The Denver gains build on those achieved by Los Angeles teachers last month.
New Yorkers Say “Fuhgeddaboudit” to Amazon
For New Yorkers, Amazon’s union-busting is a deal breaker.
GE Repays Boston Public Incentives after Failing to Follow Through
On the same day Amazon decided to abandon its plans to establish a secondary headquarters in New York City, leaving behind $3 billion in publicly funded incentives, GE announced it would repay the city of Boston for almost $90 million in development incentives.
The 2019 Gates Letter: What Surprises Them Scares Us
Off and on, we have covered the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates on behalf of their foundation and commented on how frequently they have learned a “surprising lesson” they’ve already claimed to have learned—for example, that communities not only have skin in the game but deep intelligence to contribute when it comes to reforms that will affect them and their children. This year, we find the Gateses once again caught off guard.
Scaling Social Justice: A Latinx Immigrant Worker Co-op Franchise Model
Can worker co-ops be franchised in Latinx immigrant communities? In New York City, a nonprofit with a strong co-op development track record is giving it a try. Focusing on cleaning and childcare, the co-ops developed are providing a living wage alternative to what are often exploitative low-wage industries.
Since Parkland: A Remarkable Example of Community-Engaged Journalism
We find too little journalism that allows those involved to report their own truths with humanity and immediacy.