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?
Pill dumping in West Virginia on a massive scale raises a host of questions regarding what would appear to be grossly negligent oversight by many of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical distributors.
Leading a nonprofit through a culture change requires understanding one’s own position in that culture.
A leading national health foundation announces it will no longer give awards honoring sports teams foundations if their teams have mascots that perpetuate stereotypes of American Indian and Alaskan Native people.
An LGBTQ organization in Alabama has found itself at the center of political controversy, and suddenly closed. Is this a problem with the organization’s practices, its operating environment, or both?
In Seattle, a unanimous City Council vote to tax Amazon, Starbucks, and other large businesses to address homelessness obscures deep divisions regarding business, taxes, and the city’s homeless crisis.
Community approaches to problem solving can take many forms; in this arena, nonprofits benefit from their ability to be nimble and creative. A school and a land conservancy have done just that, signing a memorandum of understanding for an agreement that helps both organizations.
Hidden in the Paradise Papers, a cache of 13 million leaked documents documenting a small slice of the world of offshore investing, lurks a credit agreement that reveals that a few of the nation’s best-known environmental nonprofits are invested in oil drilling and exploration.
A recent look at public education in Oakland raises important questions about whether maximizing choice comes at the cost of equity.