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.
Dayton, Ohio sees a hopeful trend in diminishing opioid-related deaths only after implementing a range of coordinated responses from public and private institutions.
A message repeated over and over from a network of public offices can’t help but bleed into donor consciousness. Still, the warnings from regulators are legitimate, so what is the sector to do?
A sure way to lose trust of your stakeholders is to erect a wall of silence during a crisis. But once you have done so, what then must be done?
A French president’s office report may lead some museums to return stolen treasures to their countries of origin. But resistance among European museums persists.
In Philadelphia, the city and 13 hospital and university partners set a goal to shift $500 million in contracts for goods and services from national to local suppliers in the coming decade. If it succeeds, 5,000 living-wage, middle-skill jobs for Philadelphia residents could be created.
The current wave of increasingly explicit bigotry in the US affects all nonprofits. It is incumbent for our sector to add higher-level cultural strategies to our work to respond more effectively to this social disease in our midst.
With 22 of an allowed 40 pieces of art sold, the Berkshire Museum ends its much-frowned-upon auction of some of the most famous of its own artworks in a sale designed to finance expanded science and history sections. The museum now has its cash; many will be watching to see if the money is used wisely.
Even as chaos erupts on the border with Mexico and armed forces try to keep asylum seekers from entering the United States, immigrants already legally admitted also face assault. A proposed amended “public charge” rule would make accepting standard supports like Medicaid health insurance grounds for not getting a green card.