Keeping the community at the center requires boards to look past familiar and comfortable strategies, even when doing so creates friction, costs a gift, or demands change no one is quite ready for.
The Boardroom Belongs to the Community
Museums, Inclusion, and Community Wellbeing: Who Gets to Decide What Our History Is?
Museums offer a transformative opportunity: to document, shape and reshape our knowledge of our own history. But who writes that history?
While I Lost One, I Gained Thousands
After losing his 16-year-old daughter LoEshe to gun violence in 1997, Donald Lacy founded the LoveLife Foundation in her memory—and nearly three decades later, finds that the joy she put into the world still sustains the work.
Mexico’s Path Toward Universal Health Coverage
How does Mexico plan to bring free, universal health care for every person in the country, regardless of income or geography, by 2030?
The New Counterterrorism State
Confronting the Trump administration’s expanded counterterrorism policy will require movements to take a long-term approach rooted in building political alignment and scaling infrastructure.
When Knowledge Is Not Enough: On Exercising Your Rights
It can be impossible to recite anything—let alone your rights—in the face of authority, chaos, and violence. What we need to do now is plan for action, plan for how we will act and connect with our communities amid fear, confusion, and the breaching of normalcy and of our rights.
Anti-Trans Amendment Puts Women’s History Museum on Pause
The Democratic Women’s Caucus pulled support after Republicans amended the legislation to require that the museum exclude transgender women.
The Protesters Know Something Philanthropy Doesn’t
Philanthropic institutions can take essential lessons from the words and actions of May Day protestors across California.
As Surveillance of Immigrant Communities Expands, How Can Nonprofits Respond?
The federal government is increasingly relying on nonimmigration agencies—including the IRS, HUD, Medicaid, and the Department of Education—to support deportation.
We the Nonprofit Founders: Dreaming, Building, and Nurturing Democracy for All
The nonprofit sector is a powerful lever for change and a fundamental building block of the democracy we need today and in the future.
The Quiet Collapse: Why the Erasure of the Nonprofit Sector Threatens Us All
A new study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy reveals that our nation’s nonprofits are facing an unprecedented existential crisis.
Founder Outsider: Running a Women-led Nonprofit in Mizoram
In the northeastern state’s rigid and male-dominated social sector, a nonprofit tackles biases against women leaders and young people.