“Philanthropy, honey, it’s time for an intervention!” notes Native American philanthropic leader Edgar Villanueva in his call for philanthropy to take a good hard look at the way its practices reinforce and embody a modern colonialist mentality.
Teen Vogue breaks down the various levels at which activists work and suggests that those activists take measure of where they are aiming their efforts.
A new study reinforces the impact that corporate donations have on policy outcomes through strategic nonprofit partnerships.
We all know that addressing social problems requires an approach that is both comprehensive and sensitive to context. But getting social service agencies, governed by individual line items, to adopt integrated approaches is a challenge.
For the small sum of $372.5 million, Johns Hopkins purchases from the Newseum prime Pennsylvania Avenue real estate between the White House and the Capitol. For Hopkins, it establishes the school as a major player in Washington DC. For the Newseum, the cash infusion may give the financial struggling institution a new lease on life.
The Chan Zuckerberg effort, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, will establish a large fund dedicated to developing and preserving affordable housing.
After a national and an intense local outcry, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has reversed itself, issuing a statement about lessons learned. What might those lessons be?
In this conversation with the Nonprofit Quarterly, Price talks about how narratives emerge, how they get used in the world, and how to recognize, interrupt, and reorient them, because, as she says, every time you interrupt the false narrative, you put something else into the collective consciousness.
Over the next decade, the American Association of Medical Colleges is projecting a drastic decrease in the number of primary care physicians in the US, which could result in a shortage of 15,000 to 50,000 doctors nationwide. Many suspect the sheer cost of medical school is driving students to choose higher-earning specialties over primary care.
The Native American Journalists Association announced a partnership with the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources to promote Native involvement in the national conversation around environmental issues.
Our world appears filled with incautious billionaires who don’t notice that the worm has begun to turn.
For nonprofits involved in economic and business development, and those concerned about the wealth gap and strengthening communities, the role and emergence of ESOPs is not to be underestimated, as employee ownership is poised to be a major economic factor in the years to come.