After years behind a paywall, the for-profit site is moving to a membership model. Will the sector shift have a profound impact?
Civil Beat’s 6th Birthday Wish Is to Become a Nonprofit News Site
Hartford Public Schools Face Daunting Budget Cuts
How much can a school board cut from its budget without harming students? Hartford is finding out as it deals with a serious funding shortage.
Libraries Increasingly Embrace MakerSpaces
Combining the transfer and acquisition of knowledge with an open civic venue, libraries setting aside room for innovative small-scale construction makes perfect sense.
A Sports Celebrity’s Foundation Ends, But Not His Goodwill
Dominating a sport and achieving excellence in philanthropy have this in common: It looks easy, but only if you don’t understand it.
Building a Foundation for the 21st Century: Part 2 – Opening the Terrarium
In this second of a two-part series, Clara Miller, president of the F.B. Heron Foundation, discusses the ways in which a change in the operating model of philanthropic foundations can expand their purviews, effectiveness and impact.
On Surviving Real Innovation: A Letter to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The journalism model that produced reporting on the Panama Papers is a very vulnerable structure. We encourage their leaders to work through their growing pains and let their mission be their guide.
Principles in Conflict: Nonprofit Hotline’s Failure to Run Background Checks Comes Under Fire
A Michigan nonprofit has found one of its organizational values—to accept people, including volunteers, as they are—to be in stark conflict with its mission and its duty of care to serve victims of abuse.
Baltimore City Council Threatens Government Shutdown if Youth Initiative Funding Isn’t Restored
Baltimore’s city council wants to mandate spending on youth programs. The mayor is sympathetic, but wants more information and a discussion on what might be sacrificed.
Amnesty Calls for World’s Attention to Malawi’s Uptick in Violence toward Albinos
A new report by Amnesty International sheds light on a horror that has largely escaped the purview of the Western world: Albinos are being hunted by those who would turn their body parts into talismans.
Is Historical Racial Discrimination a Barrier to U.S. Parks?
An article just released in the Atlantic delves once again into the question of why public parks are not reaching African American populations.
A Case Of Government Overreach Takes a Disturbing Twist
A state commission’s dispute with Chicago’s public schools may have something to do with the Walton Foundation’s ties to both sides.
Building a Foundation for the 21st Century: Part I – On Full Philanthropic Engagement
The Heron Foundation has long been an influential philanthropic player on the national scene. Its board’s historic advocacy on the use of philanthropic assets as mission related investments (MRIs) has been central to discussions of how to approach the full deployment of assets in pursuit of goals. Now, in this two-part series, Clara Miller, the foundation’s president, lays out in detail the ways that ideology and practice fit together in this foundation’s still evolving and historically ambitious engagement with the larger economy. In our opinion, this is a must-read for those serious about philanthropic impact.