Pro-life advocates are reacting to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion decision by shifting focus from regulating women’s health to advocating for the fetus.
Does Expanded Early Childhood Care Depend on Substandard Carer Wages?
A recent push for universal childcare is, according to some advocates, premised on a business model that is predicated on unreasonably low wages for workers.
Phillips Exeter Alums: No More Money until School Deals with Sexual Abuse Issues
Alumni withhold donations from elite boarding school over dissatisfaction with its response to sexual abuse of students.
Women Named to Lead Library of Congress, Design Presidential Library
The relative lack of fanfare for two historic achievements by women may be evidence that women in leadership and similar accomplishments have become accepted, if not the norm.
9/11 Museum Debuts Art Exhibition: Local Artists’ Responses to Attack
Can its poignant exhibition featuring local artists finally drive those in the New York tri-state area to visit the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum?
A Foundation and Nonprofits React to Deep Cuts in Connecticut
A Connecticut foundation steps in to assist nonprofits cope with deep state budget cuts to support essential human and social services.
Anti-Obama Draft GOP Platform Presents Stark Differences and Few Surprises
The GOP prepares a conservative party platform heavy on criticism of the Obama administration and the current role of the federal government in American society.
The States and the Feds and Nonprofit Regulation
There are dovetailing nonprofit regulatory shifts afoot at the federal and state levels that you should be watching…
Pokémon Go…to the Opera? How Nonprofits Have Made the Game Their Own
The Pokémon craze of the ’90s has been reborn in a smartphone app. Pokémon Go adds mobility, providing nonprofits with a new way to attract new audiences.
Endangered Nonprofit Health Insurance Co-ops Dwindle
Nonprofit health insurance cooperatives were supposed to compete with other insurers and keep rates lower. Mounting financial losses and regulatory burdens have caused most to close and the others to be at risk.
FEGS Exec Rebrands Himself after $200 Million Charity Demise
While failing at business is part and parcel of entrepreneurism, how about when that failure helps bring down an enormous social service agency serving vulnerable populations? A month after FEGS Executive VP Ira Machowsky left with a six-figure severance package, the organization collapsed amid millions in debt. Now he offers services as an executive recruiter for nonprofits.
Rikers Receives 4th Extension for Ending Youth Solitary Confinement
Over the objections of advocates, the New York Board of Corrections granted a fourth delay for DOC to end isolation. Despite a policy change 18 months ago, the DOC has only eliminated solitary confinement for a small portion of the juvenile inmates at Rikers Island.