Sorting out real from fake nonprofit advocacy is hard. Unless we all make it our business, democracy will suffer greatly.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: This account of the care needed when making a nonprofit acquisition in good faith is a positive but cautionary lesson for those considering these kinds of organization-changing affiliations.

A 400-page draft outlines the Puerto Rican government’s recovery vision for the next 10 years. While the report does an admirable job of outlining the damage done by Hurricane Maria and the infrastructure recovery needs, the plan fails to tap into the creativity of the island’s own people.

Give a bit here, exploit a bit there—who knew we were all keeping score?

One year ago, white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia rocked the nation. It also spurred a national conversation regarding historic preservation and the need to more adequately acknowledge Black contributions in the nation’s historical narrative.

The Boston Globe has invited other news organizations to join them in expressing to their own communities in their own ways how important the free press is to democracy and to protest the constant attacks against it from this presidency.

After over a decade of litigation, the USDA will disburse $266 million in funds from the Keepseagle v. Vilsack settlement through a Native American-run trust that will be empowered to support economic development in Indian Country.

The federal government has invited applications for a grant to develop a training program for schoolchildren that can be used in the aftermath of a school shooting.

Buried in the recently passed defense authorization bill, the Main Street Employee Ownership Act is now the law of the land. The new law, which is the first major supportive employee ownership legislation to pass Congress since 1997, enables the use of Small Business Administration–guaranteed loans to help retiring business owners finance the sale of their businesses to their employees.

A musing on Jeff Bezos’s MIA philanthropy. Maybe it’s a good thing on balance that it has not yet materialized.

The March of Dimes, long in tight financial straits, neglected to warn grantees that their multi-year grant awards would not be honored.

What does it mean that universities are stepping up their investments in technology centers? There’s potential for good and for bad.