As Rick Cohen wrote, this is yet another issue nonprofits might hope to dodge, but “if the U.S. slams the door on desperate Syrian refugees, the nonprofit sector that claims to represent openness, inclusion, and democracy will find its credibility seriously damaged.”

Resident companies, board members and civic and community leaders are wrestling with tough questions about the African American Art and Culture Complex, hoping to avoid “a public skunk fight.” But has that horse already left the barn?

Just a few weeks before the Paris climate talks, the Gates Foundation has released documents showing decreased investments in fossil fuel companies. But as Bill Gates explains to James Bennet, innovation remains paramount.

The judge who called nonprofit hospitals a “legal fiction” recently said Princeton University would have to prove it merited its property tax exemption, a ruling that is likely to result in a settlement that increases its PILOT payment to the town significantly. As other hospitals and universities face these questions, this context should be taken into account.

The National Council of Nonprofits, as well as a number of individual state associations of nonprofits, is opposing a new voluntary gift substantiation regime proposed by the IRS.

Last week, the Texas Board of Education rejected a proposal to ensure that the textbooks they authorized were factually accurate, clinging instead to “a vetting system that has helped spark years of ideological battles over how potentially thorny lessons in history and science are taught.”

When the Department of Justice investigated the criminal justice system in Ferguson, Missouri, it found many practices that created antagonism and distrust between residents and the police and courts. Under these “debtor prison” practices, the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be imprisoned.

The presidents of the California Endowment, California Community Foundation, and Weingart Foundation have penned a letter of concern regarding the Broad Foundation–backed plan for the schools and its bypassing of parental involvement.

Using kitchen scales, harvest logs, citizen science and a nifty new database, urban gardeners and other small-scale growers are learning to slice and dice data to demonstrate the impact of their efforts and to shape policy.

Planned Parenthood’s advocacy and political armed has proved itself to be formidable during presidential election years but much of its capacity is due to its closeness to its base.

During his keynote address at the Ontario Nonprofit Network’s conference in October, Rick Cohen talked about the danger of the “casualization” of nonprofit work.

In June, Nevada enacted the nation’s most sweeping school choice initiative yet.