Nonprofit insurers have been under scrutiny for years but are now showing their true colors under fire.
Are Nonprofit Insurers “Legal Fictions” Too?
2015: An Annus Horribilis for UK Fundraisers
Many people in charities and nonprofits in the UK will be glad to see the back of 2015. Tensions and criticisms that had been building for some time burst into the open, and the repercussions are likely to be game-changing.
What’s Best for the American Red Cross: Being among the Public, or Marketing to Them?
Perhaps the Red Cross has the wrong end of the stick in reducing the number of its chapters by almost two-thirds in a cost-cutting efficiency measure. These are different organizational forms, and it may be that the consolidation will rob the public of an essential knowledge base, critical in a disaster.
$50M XQ Ed Reform Challenge Shockingly Seeks Schools’ Ideas
What happens when you marry contest philanthropy with billionaire interventions in public schools? It may strike fear in the hearts of skeptics, but XQ’s initiative at least has the benefit of asking for the ideas to come from the schools themselves.
NY Gov. Orders Homeless People Forcibly Removed When Weather Turns Cold
The feud between New York’s Governor Cuomo and NYC’s Mayor de Blasio over supported housing and homelessness has ended up in an edict to forcibly remove homeless people from wintry streets.
Gates, Koch, and Common Core: What Are Citizens to Do?
Public education has been used as something of an experimental philanthropic playground by the very rich—but what happens when billionaires disagree?
Another Daily Paper Adopts Nonprofit Status and Renewed Civic Focus
Financially challenged daily newspapers continue to find that becoming nonprofits creates a more sustainable business model, allowing them to keep publishing.
Catawba Tribes Loses Grant Funding For Domestic Violence Program
Despite having some of the highest rates of domestic violence of any ethnic group in the country, a grant funding some of the Catawba Indian Nation’s domestic violence services ran out at the end of the year.
In Kansas, Calls for Legislative Transparency Follow Nonprofit Study
In our democracy, nonprofits and media play often complementary roles in promoting social change and government and corporate accountability. In Kansas, this is taking the shape of a renewed call for legislative transparency.
What We Can Learn from Harassment Claims at FitzGibbon
Progressive circles have apparently been shocked by sexual harassment charges being lodged against the well-known founder at a politically aligned public relations firm. The firm dissolved within days. This article uses that incident to discuss sexual harassment in the fundraising profession and elsewhere among nonprofits and philanthropy. We welcome reader discussion on this topic.
Our Most Memorable Author Interviews of 2015
As the year wraps up, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is out with a list of notable books from 2015. We interviewed a number of the authors. They wrote about altruism, technology, poverty and education.
NPQ’s 9 Important Nonprofit Stories of 2015 (And What They Can Teach Us)
2015 has been, in a word, intense. We have identified nine significant trends and stories to reflect on and encourage you to add a tenth, or as many as you like. We thank all of the readers and others who contributed ideas for this annual column.