Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins, his alma mater, is part of a larger trend in which elite universities are seeking to reduce financial barriers to education. However, many schools remain financially far out of reach for most Americans of modest means.
Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced into Congress the “Stop Walmart” Act. Just one month earlier, the Senator’s “Stop Bezos” bill pushed Amazon to raise its wage floor to $15 an hour.
A decade-old nonprofit will use a $5 million donation to launch a fund to convert more Cleveland businesses to employee ownership and then add them to its network of worker cooperatives.
While tax abatements for corporate relocation are widely known, another way to avoid taxes is to seek lower property tax rates based on “comparable” stores that are no longer in operation.
Federal policymakers are poised to make Texas, which passed a law stating that landlords cannot be prosecuted for denying apartments to people using housing vouchers, less of an outlier in its handling of the Section 8 program.
At the annual conference of the leading international academic trade association for the study of nonprofits, a group of panelists, including NPQ’s Ruth McCambridge, took a hard look at why nonprofit governance in the US remains white-dominated and what to do about that.
Not without reason, we often approach algorithm-informed artificial intelligence with trepidation. But notwithstanding the real risks, AI correctly employed can save lives, as the story of a nonprofit crisis text line service illustrates.
One of Canada’s leading galleries plans an international biennial festival to lift up leading contemporary indigenous art worldwide.
Should the family foundation run by the CEO of a company convicted of environmental crimes be forced to pay for the necessary cleanup after the company’s sudden shutdown? The fact that the latest CEO makes $400 an hour as a trustee makes the setup look enticing.
The “Year of the Woman” celebrations continue, and much seems to be attributed to a “Blue Wave,” but one analysis by sociology professor Deana Rohlinger opens the door to other aspects of the women’s movement in politics.
In a speech earlier this month, Reverend William Barber II pointed out that elected officials who win by suppressing the black vote go on to enact policies that hurt white people too.
Most of us understand how critical peer networks are in substance abuse recovery, but they are also an important and largely unacknowledged element of community care for people with mental illness.