A battle over a nonprofit needle exchange on the front lines of the addiction epidemic.
What Came First—the Needles or the Addicts?
A Public School That Not Only Keeps Children Safe, But Heals
While proposals to turn schools into fortresses in the name of safety are absurd, promoting true safety and a community of care is more challenging. A low-income neighborhood school in San Diego shows how it can be done. At Cherokee Point Elementary, teachers, administrators, and staff have embraced a “trauma-informed school” model—with dramatic results in terms of both disciplinary and academic achievement. It is a model gaining traction across the nation.
Can You Get Your Student Loans Forgiven by Working for a Nonprofit?
The Department of Education has indicated they may end the loan forgiveness program for nonprofit employees—so file those papers soon.
Momentum Grows in Movement to Eliminate Cash Bail
Nonprofit-driven research and alternative models indicate that the evidence supports eliminating the systematically discriminatory practices of the cash bail system.
What Is Behind the Shift of For-Profit Professionals to the Nonprofit Sector?
Nonprofits need to continue down the path of understanding that we are the venue for the next stage of our economy, and that includes providing the workplaces of choice. Can we live up to it?
With Charities: Watch the Cash; Ignore the In-Kind
Inflating the value of gifts in kind is distressingly common in the international relief community. One member of that community here discusses the damage that the practice does and who it benefits.
Questions Persist at Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Remarks by the interim president at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation might make us believe that the board is not yet getting to the essence of what might ail the charity.
New York’s MoMA Expands, But Seeks to Cut Back on Staff Benefits
Reflecting an all-too-common pattern, a major nonprofit institution, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, has raised hundreds of millions for new buildings, but seeks to trim staff benefits.
Remembering Ron Dellums, Pioneering Civil Rights Activist and Congressman, 1935-2018
NPQ remembers Ron Dellums, a civil rights activist and cofounder of the Congressional Black Caucus, who passed away this week. The Dellums Institute for Social Justice, which he founded a little over two years ago, carries on his work.
Human Rights Conference All a Big Scam, But It’s a Heckuva Website
An entity in Atlanta posing as a human rights organization has been scamming people overseas. Federal and state regulators are setting up alarms, but they admit that this effort is cleverly constructed to lure the unsuspecting non-English speaker.
Activists Press Obama Foundation to Do Right by Obama’s Home Community
Community members see hope for pushing through a community benefit agreement to ensure that Chicago’s South Side residents are not displaced by the building of the Obama presidential library, but instead are partners in its development.
Moving beyond the Missions: California Builds Inclusive Native History Curriculum
Advocates seek to see California’s school curriculum revised to more accurately tell the story of the hundreds of thousands who lived there before European colonization.