For-profit social enterprise often describes itself as addressing problems that neither nonprofits nor government are equipped to solve. But, as this article contends, “scratching below the surface of social enterprise businesses reveals that they depend significantly on the nonprofit sector for their effectiveness and survival.”
Sometimes, we just want to ask, “Nonprofit for whom? Exactly who or what is meant to benefit here?”
In the mid-1990s, prodded by a recession and a narrowly failed secession referendum, Quebec launched what has become a $2 billion-a-year childcare program. Despite the outlay, the program has paid for itself by making it easier for mothers to maintain employment. The Quebec model has been widely imitated, but not in the US—yet.
Building units that are affordable is wonderful, but so too is ensuring that people have living wage jobs.
In 2019, 20 states and 21 cities will be raising their minimum wages, directly bumping up the wages of 5.3 million workers and indirectly benefiting more.
Why advocate openly when you can instead use Facebook ads to target your opponents? A recent article describes how some “pro-Israel” groups have done this.
From brief, hands-on assignments to short-term, skills-based contributions, nonprofits can find many ways to keep good volunteers engaged without asking for big time commitments.
While volunteering is something all nonprofits rely upon, the model Operation Nehemiah is advancing can teach nonprofits, as well as those concerned about the efficacy of nonprofits in their community, something important about cooperation.
Native American and Muslim women joined Congress this month for the first time ever. Their victories may pave the way for further gains.
We need to rethink the virtues of efficiency and cost-effectiveness when it comes to preschool education, and look to what is truly in children’s best interests—especially those children who have the least.
In Georgia, nonprofit-managed public hospitals face pressures to open their books.
A departing nonprofit CEO asks whether an overlap of old and new leadership ever works in a nonprofit setting, to which NPQ’s Nonprofit Whisperer responds, “Yes, but…”