What happens when your “chairwoman for life” resigns? At the Koret Foundation, we shall soon see.
Koret Foundation Feud Resolved with Resignations All Around
One Man Down: SCOTUS Faces Docket with Consequences for Communities
Here are a few cases on the Supreme Court docket that will have profound effects on the lives of communities.
Philanthropy as Team Sport: $1.2B Spend-down Foundation to Serve Detroit and Buffalo
When Ralph C. Wilson, the former owner of the Buffalo Bills and a mover and shaper of the NFL, died two years ago he left a fortune to be given away – but he wanted it done in a generation and in a way that respected those already working in the trenches.
Nonprofit Investing Venture Supports Social Entrepreneurship
RSF Social Finance brings integrated capital funding to the social field.
Texas Opts Out of Refugee Program but Nonprofits and Volunteers Will Bridge the Gap
While the State of Texas can refuse to act as middleman in the flow of money between the federal government and refugee resettlement, the feds can bypass the state—and that is exactly what will happen, as the people of Texas step forward to indicate their hospitality.
Affordable Housing Advocacy and the National Elections
What are we to do in the face of relative silence from presidential candidates on affordable housing—particularly rental housing?
Waste Nothing: Scientists Study Nuclear Cows as Farmers Tend Them
More than five years after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident, a local nonprofit continues to protect and study once-prized livestock in the name of science despite government orders to kill these infamous “nuclear cows.”
A Thiel Security Data Startup is Sued by Feds for Anti-Asian Discrimination
Peter Thiel’s $20 billion corporation providing security data analysis to government has been sued by the Department of Labor for anti-Asian discrimination. This is an important article to consider the many ways in which discrimination patterns must be tracked.
Nonprofit, State & Feds Join Forces to Protect Iconic Landmark
The 215-foot-high limestone arch in Virginia known as Natural Bridge has been privately owned since Thomas Jefferson bought it from King George III. As of this week, though, with the help of a nonprofit, it’s become Virginia’s 37th state park.
ITT Students Left Adrift: Now What?
While in the long run the self-inflicted demise of ITT Tech may be a positive for prospective students, some current students need immediate help—among other things, in getting their loans discharged.
An Oregon Nonprofit Facilitates Family Farm Successions
Succession—it’s a word that’s used in business, nonprofit organizations, and even family farming. And with 64% of Oregon’s farmland changing hands, nonprofits are among those trying to aid the transition.
Cooperatives: A Form that Can Help Solve Workforce Issues
October is Co-op month, and NPQ will be celebrating throughout with examples of use of the form as an alternative to other enterprise models. In this newswire, we look at the potential of co-ops as part of the solution to workforce issues in the expanding field of home health care.