A study of nursing home patients in New York State finds a growing tendency, especially among for-profit nursing homes, to provide high-cost therapy in the weeks before patients die, when hospice care is likely to be of more comfort.
“Think of a funnel—or a sausage grinder, if you’d like. You put the information in the SWOT’s grinder, and out come your best strategies,” writes Mark Light in this damning disquisition on the ever-prevalent SWOT model. The SWOT model is presented as rigorous, but really it leads to educated guesses at best, and at worst it can be a drag on your creativity and ambition.
When adding new management staff positions, it often pays to consult with rank-and-file workers, as the Gates Foundation learned the hard way.
One of Kavanaugh’s first cases seeks a ruling on immigrant detention for deportation. Just what does that look like?
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a white riot in 1921 killed as many as 300 Blacks and left homeless thousands more. For decades, this history was buried, but in recent years the details of the event have resurfaced. Now, the mayor has ordered a search for mass graves.
One of the most critical roles of a nonprofit board member is asking difficult questions, as the story of the University of Louisville Foundation reveals.
A new organization, backed by a venture capitalist who launched the Texas Tribune nearly a decade ago and the founder of Chalkbeat, aims to raise $1 billion to support mission-driven local news outlets.
In this interview, Amy Costello’s guest Myrl Beam argues that the LGBTQ movement’s embrace of the nonprofit model has had an enormous and troubling impact on a once-radical intention. This thought-provoking podcast raises questions about how the concessions we make on the road to social change often result in a change of course. Listen to it now, or download and listen later.
On October 11th, Community Foundation of Puerto Rico president Nelson Colón delivered a major address at the City Club of Cleveland on the future of Puerto Rico and the need for an equity-based approach to recovery.
Students from more than 30 law schools began a series of walkouts yesterday afternoon to protest the US Senate’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. They wore black in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse.
We have long known that when leadership is in chaos, clients suffer. The Green Beret Foundation of San Antonio, Texas, appears to be undergoing a transition circus worthy of the center ring. Does anybody stand to win here?
This is one of the most interesting projects to come out of the new news environment lately, because these women intend to check facts through publicly interrogating the embedded narratives used by news outlets.