Activists at this month’s Global Philanthropy Forum highlight attacks on human rights and the need to respond at the level and moment of narrative.
Human Rights Abuses and Dehumanizing Narratives: Are You a Bystander?
United Way’s New ALICE Initiative Focuses on Working Poor
In one of the more interesting directions we have seen taken by United Way in some time, the organization will take on illuminating the extent of working poverty in the US.
National Nonprofit Meets Growing Demand for Worker Ownership
A worker co-op technical assistance nonprofit ramps up efforts to support the growing pace of conversions of small businesses to employee ownership.
Housing Nonprofit Retires Quietly after a Lifetime of Good Work
Sometimes, it is just wisest to get your nonprofit affairs in order.
Watching Organizational Trends Is a Core Nonprofit Board Responsibility: A Case in Point
This nonprofit is evidently neither here nor there. Overendowed with overseers and lacking even the basic contours of good governance, it can’t stem its financial losses and lacks a strategy even when it is at political risk. Is this a case of too many chefs?
“Freelance Isn’t Free” Act Protects Workers
New York acted to protect freelance workers, and it looks like their efforts paid off. However, as always, questions of equity remain unanswered.
Can Local Control of Economy Assuage Globalization’s Excesses?
In a thought-piece, a longtime globalization critic posits “localization” as a strategy that can help reduce some of the social conflicts that arise due to the effects of global economic development.
John Valverde: Changing Young People’s Lives
Valverde experienced all the hardships his organization’s young participants are living though now. In this excerpt, He makes precise connections between his lived experience and his leadership today.
Nonprofit Consortium Plans to Create Competition to Drive Down Drug Prices
ProjectRx, a consortium of large hospital systems, seeks to address inflated prices and shortages of drugs in hospitals by creating a nonprofit drug company.
Nonprofit Makes then Publicly Rescinds CEO Job Offer after Tweet
Politically motivated “outing” of public figures has a long history of dispute among activists. This old struggle is playing out in the hiring and firing of a nonprofit CEO.
Nonprofit Coalition Sues to Desegregate New Jersey Schools
A 2017 study from UCLA’s Civil Rights Project found New Jersey’s schools to be among the most segregated in the nation. It used the term “apartheid” to reference the housing patterns and the separation of students by race.
AP: Gates Foundation Marches to Its Own Drummer—Right Through our Schools
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation continues to push its education reform agenda quietly in spite of failures and pushback from communities across the country.