One can hardly wonder at the terse response of Doctors Without Borders to the president’s apology for the destruction of its hospital in Kunduz. The NGO continues to call for an independent investigation into the hospital bombing they have called a war crime.
If financial and social conditions in Chicago get much worse, the city might be facing Detroit-like problems dealing with its structural, unfunded pension deficit and paying for the delivery of municipal services. Will the city’s foundations face Detroit-like requests should Chicago veer toward bankruptcy?
Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio and urban farmer Karen Washington weigh in on the contemporary food movement, the need for a national food policy, and the life-changing taste of a freshly picked tomato.
The tragedy in Platte, South Dakota underscores the need to be especially vigilant precisely when things seem to be going well and everyone knows and trusts everyone else. Circumstances can change—drastically and tragically—in an instant.
Some estimate that Bill Cosby has as many as a hundred honorary degrees. As more women come forward with sexual assault allegations, the list of honors withdrawn may become quite long indeed.
Months after protests and death threats, Mark Palmer Edgecumbe is proposing an all-female advisory board to mollify protesters livid at the construction of the “misogynist” Jack the Ripper museum. Will that strategy work?
NPQ promised to track the ways nonprofits are involved in the pricing of pharmaceuticals, so here is another twist.
Coming out of its “Philamplify” review of the Walton Family Foundation, NCRP held a debate between education reform experts for and against market-based approaches. NCRP said it was “agnostic” on the topic, but can you really be agnostic about the insertion of the market into public education?
I was talking with an old friend who has spent a good part of her life in community organizing about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s notion of “beloved community” in social justice work.
A report from the Century Foundation recommends immediate regulatory action be taken in the face of faux conversions of for-profit colleges to nonprofit status. Unfortunately, changes in status did not mean improvements to integrity.
In Pennsylvania and Illinois, where state budgets are at an impasse, nonprofits are beginning to run through the reserves and lines of credit that have been sustaining them as state payments have stopped. Some are already suspending or reducing services, even in such vital areas as domestic violence.
The Ford Foundation yesterday announced two new additions to its staff and fellows: author and scholar Michelle Alexander and poet Elizabeth Alexander. They reflect the foundation’s new focus on the eradication of inequality and the promotion of social justice.