If you want the major driver behind the Boy Scouts’ sudden conversion to inclusiveness, or at least one of them, you need look no further than their 990 reports.
Deeper Social Meaning or Just Survival? Boy Scouts Dump the “Boy” as Coffers Dwindle
New Arts Center Aims for Contemporary-Type Nonprofit Business Model
In Worcester, Massachusetts, a vacant building is being reimagined as an arts center with the potential to drive economic development and become largely self-sustaining.
Seven Months after Maria, Thousands of Puerto Ricans March against Austerity
Thousands of Puerto Ricans march to protest government austerity measures in a context where austerity makes recovery from the damage wrought by Hurricane Maria cruelly absurd.
Appeasing the Impatient Donor: Another Good Reason to Make Society Just?
We all want to increase our impact, but simple calls for “scale” often ignore the complexities of addressing the root cause of social change. And sometimes, as the late EF Schumacher would remind us, small really is beautiful.
Universities Finally Decide Cosby’s Not a Good Representative
Now that Bill Cosby has been convicted of sexual assault, universities are rescinding the honorary degrees they once granted him. But maybe they could have acted faster—say, after Cosby admitted drugging women to have sex.
Montana Co-op Developers and State Officials Partner for Rural Investment
In Montana, a co-op development center, the governor’s office for economic development, and state agencies are partnering to create a rural investment cooperative to provide capital to support cooperative startups.
Why We Have to Social Work This
Last fall, an NPQ article said “we can’t social work” our way out of inequality, meaning case work alone is inadequate. But, as a group of social workers points out in this “Voices from the Field,” social work actually places great emphasis on political action and building community to achieve structural change.
A Memorial that Prompts Reflection on the Past and Challenges Our Future
Opened last month, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama spotlights the nation’s history of violent racism. Telling the stories of men, women, and children killed because they were black, the Memorial asks us to reflect on how we have allowed this brutality to go on and have looked the other way.
Nonprofit Working Conditions in Direct Care under Scrutiny: An Ohio Snapshot
In Ohio, there are 330,000 people with intellectual and development disabilities. The average wage of a worker who cares for them is $11.16 an hour.
Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University: A For-Profit in Nonprofit Garb?
If extraction is the name of the game, Liberty University has all its bases covered.
Decolonize This Place: Brooklyn Museum Remains Flashpoint of Displacement
Protestors gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this past weekend to call attention not just to a racially uncomfortable hiring choice, but to the museum’s increasing complicity with the gentrification and colonial forces that erase people of color in Brooklyn.
Up in Smoke: 501c4 Misleads with Johns Hopkins Bait on Ballot Measure
A shadowy nonprofit wafts into, and then back out of, a state ballot initiative, leaving Johns Hopkins University just a little wiser.