This week, New Jersey became the fourth state to raise its minimum wage to $15. The bill isn’t perfect, but it’s a big step in wage justice for hourly workers and its success is the result of smart campaigning by advocacy groups.
February 4, 2019; Healthcare Dive and Colorado Springs Gazette “Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives…has completed its merger with San Francisco-based Dignity Health to form a nearly $30 billion healthcare giant spanning 21 states,” reports Wayne Heilman in the Colorado Springs Gazette. Heilman explains that the new combined nonprofit, now called CommonSpirit Health, will be based in
Grocery is a tough business, even if you’re big. Nonprofit grocery stores serving low-income neighborhoods are even tougher to sustain, but many are making the effort.
The United States spends an estimated $5,000 per person more for healthcare than Canada, which has universal health coverage. So, why again can our country not afford Medicare for All?
What motivates nonprofit employees, and are our employment contracts in the right shape to attract the best workforce possible?
It’s not uncommon for volunteers, including board members of nonprofit organizations, to ask why their time can’t be treated as a deductible contribution. Here’s why.
An upcoming US Supreme Court ruling on whether to block or uphold a Louisiana law that places restrictions on abortion clinics will have repercussions no matter which way it goes—and not just on reproductive rights.
The federal shutdown taught us all a lesson regarding the financial fragility of so many US families. Will philanthropy take heed?
A hundred years ago, Henry Ford used a paper he owned to publish extensive amounts of anti-Semitic propaganda. Is journalism forbidden to acknowledge that today?
Foundations spend $1.3 billion annually to support nonprofit journalism worldwide. A study based on 74 interviews of nonprofits, foundations, and intermediaries finds that the funding does not reduce journalistic autonomy, but it does subtly alter the nature of the journalistic enterprise.
During the coldest week so far this year, more than 1,500 people in Brooklyn were incarcerated in a jail that had no electricity and little heat. Relentless pushing by those inside and their friends and relatives outside brought attention and some resolution.
A new nonprofit launched by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Georgia continues to pursue its lawsuit against Georgia, seeking to end state practices that marred the 2018 election.