Community activists rallied outside New York City Hall on the United Nations-backed 4th Annual Climate Finance Day to demand that New York divest from its designated banks, which invest heavily in the fossil fuel industry, and create a municipal public bank.
Durham, North Carolina has long had one of the nation’s stronger Black business sectors. Now, the city is teaming with a small business development center at a historically Black college to keep it that way.
After the Open Society Foundations closed operations in Hungary earlier this year, another authoritarian leader attacks George Soros.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A’s seven members were unanimous in their outrage—both over Khashoggi’s death and by President Trump’s lack of response.
More funding for the nonprofit sector sounds like good news, but there is an underside, says one commentator after another. What’s the big deal, anyway?
The US yesterday barely sidestepped a disastrous judicial nomination that would have reinforced the courts toward a legal defense of structural racism, and a lack of defense of civil liberties.
Ever since the professionalization of the nonprofit sector that took place 30 years ago, nonprofit executive salary has been influenced by business compensation concepts—but for-profit pay practices cannot be indiscriminately applied to nonprofits. So what really powers executive pay in the sector? As it turns out, size does matter.
In conversations about race, Professor Valorie Thomas of Pomona College invites white people to sit with their discomfort and get perspective, “the discomfort of the conversation is not equivalent to the kinds of violence that are going on in the world.”
Facebook’s repeated privacy violations and other scandals, such as hiring a PR firm to attack George Soros, are starting to give some donation recipients second thoughts about the wisdom of placing a “Chan” or “Zuckerberg” on their buildings.
Once the use of 501c4 nonprofits to raise campaign dollars was largely dominated by the right, but no longer. The grassroots organizing that 501c4 groups encourage is positive, but the rising power of billionaire—and sometimes secret—donors is not.
Along with the extra $10 million it is passing along to environmental groups, Patagonia serves up a hefty portion of scorn for an administration that it has deemed as harming the sustainability of the planet and our economy.
In Miami, a national bank and a leading human service agency join forces to support the development of worker cooperative businesses as a poverty-reduction strategy.