The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has become distinguished for its exploration of a new form of grantmaking: megagrants designed around nonprofit-directed working capital, funding for rigorous evaluation, and capacity building. And now, as the Foundation faces its own voluntary sunsetting, its legacy appears in the form of a more commonly owned funding vehicle built on the same model.
In France, leaders kick off a country-wide debate to quell the Yellow Vest protests. Is it a model for other regions responding to resistance movements, or a smokescreen?
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.