For nonprofits that are curious about what it looks like when a state attorney general inserts himself or herself into a case where a nonprofit board’s behavior may be running afield of its stewardship responsibilities, the Berkshire Museum is an excellent example.
A leading Black cooperative economic development institution in the rural South turns 50. The organization has maintained a consistent focus on cooperative economic development, land retention, and advocacy, even as it regularly adjusts to meet changing member needs.
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s conceptual portraits of wealthy, self-possessed Black people seek both to disorient the viewer and to invite questions about why these images would be disorienting.
More Native American tribes are losing their lands to climate change—another example of marginalized communities who pay the price of sharing the planet with carbon-consuming giants.
In some fields, it’s possible that profitability should take a back seat to being effective, useful, and sustainable—especially when those profits depend upon paying low wages.
Orange County, California’s Board of Supervisors has an aggressive approach to managing commissions. After a successful takeover attempt, what will happen to the Human Relations Commission?
Jim Fruchterman’s Benetech contains valuable nuts-and-bolts lessons for aspiring social entrepreneurs: There is almost always a need for some philanthropic capital, and technology, while vitally important, is no substitute for persistence.
Here’s another example of what happens when patient-advocacy nonprofits accept money from pharmaceutical companies and favor the investors’ agenda over their mission.
Twitter restores the president’s access to the medium 11 minutes after a departing employee took his account down. But bigger challenges loom, as Twitter faces the implications of its discovery of 2,752 Russian-operative accounts.
Anne Wallestad, the CEO of BoardSource, gave a barnburner of a talk at the organization’s recent conference. In it, she emphasized the need for a values base in our boards and a willingness to stand up and advocate even when it might be seen as out of the ordinary. After all, that’s what leadership in the social sector requires.
Are for-profit industry norms the right benchmark? Perhaps nonprofits need to reconsider how they determine their executive salaries. More transparency would help, too.
Black and white millennials agree that race relations are getting worse in the US. However, almost half of white millennials believe that discrimination against whites is “as big a problem as discrimination against Blacks” and other people of color. Only about a quarter of millennials of color agree.