The nation’s transit systems had a $89.9 billion maintenance backlog as of 2015. In Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington alone, that backlog exceeds $36 billion. The backlog has negative effects on both jobs and economic performance.

What fuels speculation that youth organizing will have a positive impact is the combination of thinking that civic action can make a difference and the intensity driven by mass shootings in schools.

Really great leadership in nonprofit organizations takes a kind of “old soul” approach—the ability to keep a set of principles sacred while negotiating an ever changing landscape and looking to the future. This is never more of a challenge than when taking over after a powerful founder. In this remarkable interview, John Valverde opens up about what values and knowledge and wisdom he brings to the role of CEO of YouthBuild. This is the first in a podcast series with NPQ’s Amy Costello about the realities of grounded nonprofit leadership.

Developed by New York University, the City Health Dashboard is a free online resource that allows you to look at 36 indicators of health down to the neighborhood level, helping communities identify where to focus efforts to improve health outcomes.

What does the future hold for civil society in today’s autocracies?

Congress has called for accountability from drug manufacturers and wants federal agencies to call for fair pricing.

The desire to use a popular “native son” former president to drive economic development in his home town is enmeshed in a struggle over who will decide how its impact is planned and controlled.

By working together and recognizing the collaborative’s collective assets, UACC offers insight into how community-led development efforts can reverse entrenched patterns and provide hope.

What if it were as easy to find the social services you need as it is to find a restaurant review on Yelp? In Silicon Valley, the nonprofit social enterprise Benetech is partnering with Kaiser, the local United Way, and others to design a system that will get there.

A former Trump cabinet official discovers the virtues of ethics and integrity.

Excelsior College has recently re-aligned themselves with their mission. However, their profit-chasing cost them an opportunity, and they have yet to address the elephant in the room.

Nonprofits and others want to know how a foundation’s money is invested. If a foundation follows generally accepted accounting principles, investing practices, and risk levels, should they allow the general public to influence them? Who are the foundation’s stakeholders, and how do they weigh in?