Billionaire candidates for office are not exactly a novelty, but the campaign of billionaire philanthropist J.B. Pritzker for governor of Illinois—one of three billionaires competing for the office!—once again raises uneasy questions regarding the woeful state of democratic practices in the US.
The ongoing challenges of recovery to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico compel philanthropy to respond. But not all responses are the same. One approach is to support grassroots, community groups. The other is to reinforce existing service-based nonprofits. These approaches have very different equity implications.
Not only does the new federal budget fail to cut domestic spending, it includes the first major increase in federal spending since 2009, reversing nearly a decade of austerity. Many nonprofits will be pleasantly surprised to be in a position to benefit from federal spending increases.
The loss of the once high-flying but now defunct Families for Excellent Schools may not have been so hard on its nonprofit colleagues.
Think twice before you tweet something hateful—you could end up supporting a nonprofit you hate!
Before the rise of NPR, public radio was but a bit player in radio news. Could the past decade’s rise of nonprofit local media be a harbinger of a similar transformation in newspapers?
A coalition of police oversight reformers in Austin propose a nonprofit to address resident complaint process.
This article’s authors, Landsman and Roimi, have firsthand experience with the so-called “collective impact” model—Landsman in the StrivePartnership group upon which the model was based. Here, the two describe the limitations of the model’s five-point system and present two case studies in line with a deeper systems-change approach to collective work. This article is part of a larger discussion meant to advance your knowledge and a larger dialogue on this topic.
More than seven years after suing because the IRS failed to take action on its application for tax exemption, the Pennsylvania-based Z Street nonprofit organization has entered into a “consent order” with the federal government.
In Great Britain, the Labour Party has created a Community Wealth Building Unit to build out an economic strategy, first developed in the midsized city of Preston, that uses local public procurement, cooperatives, and living wage policies to boost working-class Britons’ well-being.
It took more than 80 days for the White House to decide that their nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate skeptic, was not going to make the cut.
The HUGE Theater in Minneapolis is making a point of treating their artists like professionals.