The UK-based outcry about the potential for disastrous outcomes in the living wage hike for direct care workers sounds suspiciously like the one we have heard here in the U.S. But the sky did not fall; in fact, just the opposite.
In Illinois, direct care workers were close to being awarded a living wage. Nonprofit providers wanted it and legislators overwhelmingly voted for it, but a last-minute veto by the governor took it down…for now.
The consolidation of Red Cross Chapters in Western New York has allegedly been careless, resulting in the loss of volunteers.
After five decades of decreasing mental healthcare funding, Massachusetts faces a public health and safety crisis. Many states did not establish community-based care systems as alternatives to institutions, and now many former clients are in jails and prisons or on the streets, untreated.
Humility and trust are necessary for a just society and decent philanthropy.
Paying nonprofit board members is legal, but it remains unclear how paid board members would improve governance. In fact, some believe that even in for-profit corporations, the payment of board members poses problems of various types, including covert and overt self-dealing.
New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera has managed to keep itself out of the red for the second year running, but will this two-year streak last?
For all the scrutiny, voters who wish to measure the presidential candidates by their philanthropy have little clarity by which to judge.
Readers know that NPQ is both skeptical about some of the investments in education made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and concerned about the rapid spread of charter schools. Here, an educator who works for the Gates Foundation describes his reasoning in helping to advance that agenda.
More than half of U.S. states spend less per pupil on education than they did in 2008. Why isn’t this a campaign issue?
Following a year of investigation, Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation presents its recommendations.
The “Black Swan” court decision three years ago focused attention on unpaid internships and how they are administered by employers. A more recent case gives employers some breathing room.