Three of the 15 board members of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) resigned yesterday after the Institute informed activist-scholar Angela Davis that their decision to grant her the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Award for Human Rights had been rescinded.

Neighborhood resistance to a free tree-planting program in Detroit shows how conflicting narratives about a community can lead to ineffective framing of issues and decreased program participation.

There is a world of difference between financial management and financial leadership, and refocusing your approach from fiscal management to fiscal sustainability and agility gets you there. Outlined in this expert guide are such essential steps as transforming your annual budget analysis, deciding whether or not income diversification is the way to go, achieving a robust reserve, and equipping your board for effective financial governance.

In his first month in office, a newly elected county prosecutor elected through extensive organizing by youth and Black Lives Matter is making some big policy changes in St. Louis County, home to the Ferguson community that launched Black Lives Matter.

In Oklahoma, a dispute between a public television station and its support foundation intensifies.

Angela Davis was invited and then disinvited to receive a civil rights award in her home town. The divisiveness of the anti-BDS campaign continues to loom over the alliances being built in our new political landscape.

Belying its commitment to Truth and Reconciliation with First Nations people, Canada has sent the Mounties to make arrests at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint on Wet’suwet’en land in British Columbia. Reconciliation, it would appear, plays second fiddle to the economic interests of Canada’s settler government.

What does asset-based community development mean? While some focus on bricks and mortar, at its heart lies the power of deep organizing, as a decades-old community group in North Philadelphia illustrates.

If the federal government were to treat the state of Texas the way the state of Texas is treating the city of Houston, we suspect some Texans would be just a mite upset.

Global organizations are more sophisticated than ever in working together to address complex problems. So, why are so many funders still using the outdated and infantilizing “capacity building” model?

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?”