War and drought have combined to create large-scale famine in South Sudan. Internecine conflicts have prevented farmers from being able to raise crops, and now 100,000 people are starving.
A Manmade Famine in South Sudan
Report Emphasizes Racial Data in Police Shootings
With Jeff Sessions taking over as U.S. Attorney General and the job of criminal justice reform ever more clearly seated in the states, local advocates must build or maintain bipartisan momentum in state legislatures and municipalities with the support of philanthropy and national nonprofits.
Nonprofits, Your Sole Goal in 2017: Pick a Fight with Trump!
VOICES FROM THE FIELD:
Rejoice! Your next big fundraiser is here. You don’t need to pour ice water on yourself or pose like a mannequin; you just need to bait a contentious, mercurial man who likes to lash out in 140-character tweets.
Is Disruption a Useful Tactic? Or Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?
As Charles Blow opined, “Disruption is not a dirty word; in this environment, it’s a badge of honor.”
Divisive Election Prompts More Women of Color to Run For Office
Amid the controversy of the new administration is a beacon of light: the record numbers of women and women of color preparing to run for local, state, and federal office.
St. Paul Struggles with Nonprofit Taxation Issues
St. Paul, like many other nonprofit-rich cities, struggles with how to levy contributions from their larger nonprofit organizations.
The Ripple Effect of Faux Social Enterprise
The broad realm of social enterprise and CSR includes some that combine empty rhetoric with a lack of accountability.
Knight Makes $4.8M Philanthropic Investment in Local News
The Knight Foundation strengthens its commitment to local journalism with support for a new collaborative venture involving news organizations, IHEs, and journalism training and research organizations.
A Cure for the Common Gun
It simply is not a credible argument, as the NRA opined, that doctors could force gun owners to self-impose any denial of gun ownership rights. Counseling patients does not in any manner usurp their free will.
U.S. Resistance to Targeting of Immigrants Becomes a Self-Organized System
It is time to change the way we think about organizations. Organizations are living systems. All living systems have the capacity to self-organize, to sustain themselves and move toward greater complexity and order as needed. They can respond intelligently to the need for change. They organize (and then reorganize) themselves into adaptive patterns and structures
Nonprofit Legal Center Teaches High School Students about Immigration Rights
High schools as centers for immigrant rights? The approach probably makes a great deal of sense, but it is likely to be controversial.
Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility in India: How Is It Working?
The 2013 Companies Act mandates that Indian corporations with revenues greater than 10 billion rupees give 2% of their profits to charities. A new report calls it “one of the world’s most interesting experiments to promote private philanthropy.”