Online fundraising website GoFundMe’s new guarantee seeks to bolster user confidence and emphasize its successes, but the fine print raises questions.
GoFundMe Announces Guarantee to Fight Crowdfunding Scams…with Limitations
New Report Asserts the Insurance Industry Captured Its Regulators
It’s no surprise that regulators and the companies they regulate are often linked. How do these relationships affect approaches to regulation?
USDA Celebrates Rural Cooperative Activity with the Best Possible Gift—Money!
Federal support of the cooperative business and nonprofit model is highlighted by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Journeying toward Diversity: Voices for Children Rethinks Its Volunteer Recruitment Strategy
Interviews with foster youth led this local nonprofit to believe that it was most important to have supportive caring adults as advocates. But what if they could include community demographics as a consideration? That would set an example of what a truly reflective and inclusive volunteer community could look like.
Should Free Speech for Nonprofits Include Political Campaign Involvement?
Should nonprofits, including houses of worship, be allowed to participate in political campaigns? Before the Johnson Amendment was passed in 1954, they could. Republicans and some conservative Christian groups want to revisit the question.
Incident at Kansas City Library Goes off the Rails
Off-duty police and private security detain a provocative questioner and a library employee during a public forum.
Fall 2016 Digital Issue
We hope that these articles will challenge all nonprofits to think differently about their organizations and fields and all funders to consider what workforce problems they are supporting by the choices that they make and the questions they neglect.
Trump Foundation Ordered to Cease Fundraising in State of NY
As New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman is especially active when it comes to the nonprofit sector. His current actions against the Trump Foundation are no more than any other nonprofit might expect were it to openly flout regulations.
The Ivy Leagues’ Humbling: Richest Endowments in Decline
More than a dozen university endowments with assets of more than $1 billion have reported investment declines. That includes the largest of them all: Harvard.
Working: 40 Years Later, The Basic Human Longing Remains
Revisiting the conversations author and broadcaster Studs Terkel held with people from all walks of life shows that despite some significant progress, many American workers still yearn for a workforce that looks less like the 1970s.
Civil Society is Vital to the Creation of a True “Sharing Economy”
This article asserts that cooperatives, mutual organizations, and new platforms that offer workers equity or customers a “purpose” are increasingly effective in making the economy more equitable.
As Police Revelations Continue, Police Surveillance of Public Grows
Three recent stories about police conducting citizen surveillance outside of the oversight of their uniformed and civilian authorities have made the news in the past month. At the same time, some police forces have mounted active resistance to reform efforts.