If the donation is worth $50 million, can you say no? Yes, you can!
Sometimes, It Helps to Ask before You Give
Financial Woes at an Arc Provide an Opportunity for Positive Change
When a field needs to change but is slow to do so, perhaps it needs to look at what holds it back—and sometimes, that might be its cost structure.
Will Corporate Strategic Charity Pay Off? A Case Study in Motion
Like many firms in legal jeopardy, the drug distributor AmerisourceBergen, facing a massive number of opioid-related lawsuits, has upped donations through its foundation. Whether this will stem the legal tide remains to be seen.
Charity as a Cheap Stunt: Airbnb’s Philanthropic Bid to Buy off New York
Airbnb donates $10 million to support New York City nonprofits. This couldn’t possibly be prompted by attempts to stave off regulation by the city of New York, could it?
NPQ’s Statement Urging the White House to End Its Irresponsible Attacks on Journalism
In solidarity with the Boston Globe and hundreds of media outlets across the country, we at NPQ express our dismay at the dangerous slandering of the press coming from the White House and remind ourselves and others of the media’s essential role, even if not always fully realized, in building an engaged civil society and an active democracy.
Is Your IRS Form 990 Telling the Right Story? And What Can You Do About It?
NPQ’s editor-in-chief Ruth McCambridge and author, speaker, and former NPQ consulting editor Michael Wyland explore in detail how donors and the media look at the IRS Form 990.
Fixing Kentucky’s Nonprofit Tax Bill
The moral of this story for nonprofits is that if you join together on policy issues, you can make your powerful voices heard. It works when you work it.
Local Journalism Sparks Philanthropy, Saving a Critical Program for Homeless
A winter warming station in Allentown was on the brink of being eliminated due to a lack of funding. A report in a local newspaper led to an extraordinary, anonymous gift to sustain the station for two years while longer-term funding solutions are developed.
Four Leadership Styles to Avoid: Lessons Learned from Our Schools
This article reflects upon principals and district administrators with a variety of styles and disparate impacts on the staffs they managed. Lyons points to four difficult administrative styles and four more positive “high impact” styles.
Los Angeles City Comptroller Recommends Limits on Corporate Tax Abatements
It’s not just Amazon that benefits from corporate tax abatements. Since 2005, the city of Los Angeles has provided nearly $1 billion to subsidize the building of hotels and a shopping mall.
Federal Charges Linger for Activists who Aided Migrants in Arizona Desert
At great personal risk, No More Deaths volunteers seek to provide life-saving support to those least able to defend their rights in court or through the political process.
New Study Suggests the US Could Benefit from More Nonprofits
Five nonprofit scholars take a new approach to the question of nonprofit sustainability in a recent national study.