At the most basic level, a foundation ought to screen its investments for mission alignment as well as financial risk and return, but this task can be difficult.
Foundations’ Investment Strategies Become Part of Their Mission
Nashville Metro Council Members Balk at City’s Commitment to Amazon
In Nashville, the $102 million offered Amazon to locate a 5,000-person employee facility in the city is proving less than universally popular, with local unions and council members clamoring for the city, which has committed $15 million of that amount, to care for its own workers first.
Is Economic Development Charitable Work—Or Just Maintaining the Status Quo?
How does foundation investment in economic development actually impact poverty?
The Militarization of Politics and the Battle for the “We”
US foreign counterinsurgency tactics have come home and are in full play at the southern border and in urban areas. They are a key tactic in the limiting of the expanding “we.”
The Pressure on NY’s Designated Banks: Get Our Money Out of Climate-Hostile Businesses!
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 Considers Employee Ownership as Strategy to Preserve Black Businesses
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.
Turkey Detains Civil Society Leaders and Pushes Soros-Funded NGO to Exit
After the Open Society Foundations closed operations in Hungary earlier this year, another authoritarian leader attacks George Soros.
Saudi Embassy in DC May Find Its Address Changed to Jamal Khashoggi Way
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.
Does Wealth Guarantee Wisdom? Persistent Questions about the New Mega-Donor Era
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?
Au Revoir, Thomas Farr
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.
What Drives Nonprofit Executive Compensation?
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.
Moving Beyond the Privilege of White Tears
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.”