Boards struggle with engagement and diversity because they recruit from the same insular networks, reinforcing a cycle of limited perspectives and overextended members. The issue isn’t effort—it’s a structural pattern in how boards source and select people.
What we can learn from a forgotten movement that transformed American civic life.
As the Trump administration attempts to eliminate federal funding for afterschool programs for underserved and low-income students, some states are building their own funding.
Existing in the paradox of democratic capitalism, American nonprofits are key to keeping the balance: they show up in the space between extremes, knowing they’ll never fully or permanently succeed but doing the work anyway.
Concerns about Ebola or hantavirus being a new pandemic are rising, but for the millions with Long COVID, we’re still in this one.
Long before formal systems existed, elders carried knowledge, resolved conflict, raised children, and held communities together through hardship and change. Here’s a look at how elders serve as the infrastructure that upholds and sustains our communities.
With severe cuts to public health infrastructure and growing uncertainty about philanthropy’s financial footing, nonprofit leaders must think beyond the grant cycle to sustain health equity programs. Here’s how nonprofit leaders and funders can support implementers during unstable times.
Fundraising with integrity and community accountability is an art that keeps the sector alive. It is the connective tissue between lived experience and institutional power, yet it is structurally undervalued.
Climate change is intersectional—and this demands that nonprofit organizations consider how their missions might require them to address and mitigate climate harms affecting the communities they serve.
In the nonprofit sector, the cost of survival is too often absorbed by the people we ask to lead. Here are insights for funders and nonprofit leaders on how to create a culture shift for restoring wholeness.
Virginia’s redistricting fight showed what nonprofit coalitions can accomplish at the ballot box—and how quickly those wins can be erased. In a post-Callais landscape, civic organizations need speed, legal preparedness, and media literacy to protect democratic gains before the window closes.
Why does the federal Momnibus now only say ‘Black’ one time? The answer depends on who you ask.