When a for-profit company acquires a nonprofit nursing home, how does it earn profits? It will surprise few that at a nursing home in Goshen, New York, cutting staff was a big part of the mix, with sadly predictable results.
A recent HBR article begins with this frivolous pronouncement: “Too few nonprofits use the advantages of their nonprofit status.” We might do better asking what few nonprofits would not be practiced in, let alone not be aware of, these advantages?
Two key trends that are promoting the growth of employee ownership in the United States are increased financing availability and moves to develop “hybrid” forms of employee ownership that combine structural flexibility with democratic practices.
This Summer 2018 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly focuses on advancing two conversations that are a little “stuck.”
California’s horrific wildfires are being fought by inmates who are paid $2 per day plus $1 for each hour on the front lines. Their relationship to the system and the general populace in this respect is emblematic of how California views its incarcerated population.
Despite difficulty in securing funding from traditional institutions, Cincinnati’s Northside community has managed to garner financial support from nonprofits, community groups, and government agencies alike.
A few years ago, the sharing economy was being hyped as the next big thing. Now, New York City is intervening to ensure that ride-hailing drivers at least eke out a living wage.
Perhaps we too often look at fundraising with either trepidation or grim ambition. What would happen if we brought inspiration and joy to the task?
Limits would be placed on legal migrants who have accessed benefits or other common subsidy programs and are seeking to get green cards or become citizens.
The costs of winning the competition to become Amazon’s second home remain largely unexplored, and this makes public debate urgently necessary in the locales where the prospect is still in play.
We sometimes treat nonprofit boards like they are mechanisms that just need adjustments to be “right.” But, all the while, everything is changing around them.
The art world has historically been dominated by white curators. But both philanthropy and a shifting cultural and political climate within the art world itself are starting to change that.