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.
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.
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’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.
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.
An article just released in the Atlantic delves once again into the question of why public parks are not reaching African American populations.
A state commission’s dispute with Chicago’s public schools may have something to do with the Walton Foundation’s ties to both sides.
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.
Maine’s Governor Paul LePage has accumulated quite a track record of intimidating the state’s nonprofits, and now he has moved to directly intimidating the donors of one group he does not agree with.
A federal court forces the IRS to identify the nonprofit groups it targeted as a class action lawsuit develops over the scandal.
It was a nonprofit communications dream. On Sunday, as part of his unique brand of political performance art, HBO’s John Oliver took on the practices of medical debt collection and highlighted the work of the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt.