This nonprofit has been quietly but busily biding its time developing a business plan for an enterprise that is a driver of the local economy. The enterprise was under agreement to another, but things change.
A new study looking at small arts groups in Oakland, California, has a decidedly local flavor, but its findings and recommendations offer food for thought to arts leaders and funders everywhere.
While still a minority of the sector, a growing number of community foundations are leveraging their assets by increasingly shifting deposits into community development financial institutions and development projects, empowering underserved communities.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang is leaving his post two years early after multiple scandals including a lawsuit over a deported student.
What have funders and movement organizers learned from four years of activity that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the subsequent community uprising? In St. Louis, some key improvements are visible, but both locally and nationally, far more remains to be done.
Nonprofits step up to sue a town which has no representative for a Latinx hamlet.
The expansion of Red Emma’s and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry suggest that worker cooperatives, though small today, can grow into significant wealth-generating engines for distressed communities.
The perception that all business philanthropy and service is of value is dated.
The merging of federal agencies is not an easy task, and it looks like these attempts to do so are more about a framing the problem in a way that controls and shapes the public response.
Sinai Grace Guild Community Development Corporation works with neighborhoods rich in cultural, institutional, religious, and public assets. These assets are featured front and center.
Founded in 1936, the venerable Consumer Reports, owned by the nonprofit Consumer Union, remains the largest publication in its field. But with print subscriptions down, an aging readership, and growing online competition, it must negotiate an increasingly complex business environment.
AN NPQ CLASSIC: This article reveals the critical environmental factors in some nonprofits that create fertile ground for shared leadership.