The recent settlement on property taxes reached between Morristown, N.J., and the Morristown Medical Center in the wake of a court ruling that called nonprofit hospitals largely a “legal fiction” has the state legislature and other localities in the state eying the possible ripple effects on other communities and hospitals.
On this Giving Tuesday, The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Stacy Palmer joins our holiday miniseries about effective giving. When evaluating a charity, she says you should first ask them, “How do you know you’re doing great work?”
The former Satilla Regional Medical Center, which became the Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross, is apparently once again on its own. Are mergers and mega-systems perhaps not the answer in healthcare?
As elected officials continue to feed the fear surrounding the Syrian refugee crisis and words turn into violent actions, nonprofit leaders must step up and speak out.
What role do nonprofits have in the setting and maintenance of a healthy civic climate, especially when elected officials and candidates for office appear to be systematically stirring up hate and fear among the populace?
Museums in the digital age are endlessly testing interactive elements. The latest one comes from the Netherlands, where one museum encourages sketching in place of the use of mobile devices.
Jay Ruderman, the straight-talking president of the Ruderman Family Foundation, has taken Donald Trump to task for apparently and appallingly mimicking the disability of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski at a rally in South Carolina last Tuesday night.
The willingness of nonprofits to not only refuse to comply with bad policy but also to challenge it in court and in public is something that should be celebrated by all of us in this resource-dependent sector. It makes us all a bit more free.
Gates has pledged to commit $2 billion to renewable technology initiatives, but only in tandem with what he sees as government research and development efforts taking the lead.
Regardless of political ideology, no one is happy with the lack of insurance stability in the current healthcare market.
With Congress poised to pass the Every Child Achieves Act, defining our national educational strategy, Anya Kamenetz, NPR’s lead education blogger, asks an important question: Is bigger always better?
Next Tuesday, December 1, I will be on PRI’s the World to talk about Tiny Spark’s Guide to Good Giving. We recently launched that miniseries to help you make more informed decisions about charitable giving this holiday season. And now, together with with The World, we’d like to invite you into a discussion we’re having