The “invisible hand” of income inequality may be reshaping the racial composition of metropolitan neighborhoods in ways that perpetuate racial isolation.
The Social Cost of Racial Isolation
New York’s Art Students League in Battle over Air Rights Decision
On paper, the deal looks good: $32M for the right to build in the space above the Art Students League headquarters. However, internal politics have split the League, turning the matter into a referendum on President Salvatore Barbieri.
Hartford Symphony Musicians Resolve Dispute: Leadership of Musical Director Cited
The union had until midnight on Monday to agree to concessions, but a statement made by Carolyn Kuan on Friday helped turn the tide.
Megadonors and Public Policy: A Bad Mix?
Public education reform is the philanthropic focus of many of our nation’s wealthiest individuals. Despite the lack of clear improvement stemming from their already large investments, their interest does not seem to be waning. Is there a downside to their bountiful generosity?
Saving the August Wilson Center
The August Wilson Center seems cursed by a failure to launch, yet has managed so far to stay (barely) afloat. What lies ahead for this troubled organization?
#OscarsSoWhite and the Boycott of the Academy Awards
Is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences willfully overlooking people of color?
Nonprofit Managers, Heads Up! Wikipedia’s Wealth of Knowledge Is in More than Its Pages
The bold experiment that is Wikipedia is worth celebrating as emblematic of the possibilities of this new era, but descriptions of its ongoing evolution should be hugely valuable to other nonprofits because its own challenges are part of the knowledge it shares.
The Latest News Organization to Go Nonprofit Raises Further Impartiality Issues
As long as the megatrend toward conversion to nonprofit status continues, there’s a challenge that will continue to confront the journalists that manage nonprofit news sites
Airport Workers Stage Protest Actions in Name of MLK; Elected Officials Get Involved
In MLK’s proud tradition, underpaid airport workers and their supporters engaged in civil disobedience yesterday all across the country to protest economic oppression.
The Challenge of Translating Site-Based Art to the Museum Setting
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of “political” art features, among other works, a bust of Edward Snowden. How do we determine what constitutes “creative activism” outside of its original context?
Final Score: Tenants 4,050,000; Slumlords, Nil!
Gentrification is displacing poor families all around the country, but in Cleveland, landlord brothers Derek and Graig Brown have been ordered to pay $4,050,000 to three former tenants who charged the pair with harassment and intimidation under the Federal Fair Housing Act.
Numbers Don’t Add Up: Miami’s Shiny New Science Museum Strapped for Cash
An ambitious plan to relocate and expand a well-established cultural institution is now at risk as leaders scramble to raise the funds to continue with construction.