In Vermont, two nonprofits, one focused on education and training for the sector and the other on supporting advocacy and resource sharing, have combined forces to create a single statewide nonprofit that provides needed infrastructure for the sector.
Will Silicon Valley “Disrupt” Food Waste?
Can you make money from food waste while tackling the issue of food insecurity in the best possible way? Two Bay Area nonprofits don’t think so.
Biased Algorithms vs. Real Life: A Food Security Issue
The algorithm that the USDA uses to detect fraud among SNAP vendors can’t distinguish between fraud and common practices like shopping on credit in poor communities. As those vendors get barred from SNAP, neighborhoods are losing their corner groceries to an imperfect system.
Two Sides of the Coin in West Harlem: The Mixed Blessing of Multi-Year Funding
A little more than halfway through a multi-year commitment, this nonprofit faces its own questions of organizational mortality and purpose.
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Adopts a Digital Startup Ethos
Chicago’s YWCA seeks a new non-nonprofit model.
Nonprofit Learns to Pay Attention the Hard Way
A nonprofit in a small town in North Carolina organizes a local public event, only to discover that it had never actually submitted its tax-exemption paperwork to the IRS.
Nonsensical Article Cites Survey to Prove Nonprofit Enthusiasm for Competitions
Let’s always look beyond the hype to self-interest and try not to fall for a load of turnips.
Why Smart People (at the Gates Foundation) Can’t Learn
The Gates Foundation proves to be a great example of management guru Chris Agyris’s observations on why smart people can’t learn.
Silent Sam and the “Voice” Question: When a Majority-White Institution Calls for Consensus
Good leadership is situational. Sometimes consensus is called for, but what if the institution’s consensus is governed by a non-representative group of overseers? Sometimes, you may just have to step out in front and risk something.
Mobilizing the Vote: It IS Your Nonprofit’s Responsibility
Hold a special meeting of your nonprofit board to lay some quick plans about encouraging your stakeholders to make it to the polls and get out there and help. And, to be clear, you are of course allowed by law to do so.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back on Gun Control
The NRA, broke as they are reported to be, spent a good deal on a pro-Kavanaugh campaign ad featuring Oliver North speaking over “clips of Democrats doctored to look like fuzzy newsreels from a guerrilla republic.”
International Science Report Foresees Mass “Die-Off” of Coral Reefs by 2040
A study by internationally preeminent scientists finds that time is running out to dial back climate change. Estimated costs from a rise in global temperatures of a half-degree Celsius alone are $54 trillion—three times the current annual US gross domestic product.