Don’t ignore the fact that both houses of Congress are hacking away at federal safety-net programs; there could be disastrous impacts on low-income people if these proposed budget cuts become law.
Greek entrepreneurs in this country extend their hands and money to entrepreneurs in Greece to help them survive current monetary restrictions.
The author of Great Philanthropic Mistakes, Martin Morse Wooster, writes about the problem of corruption in the delivery of aid to developing countries—and what grantmakers can do to prevent it.
Police departments should keep an eye on Gloucester’s police-based program that treats drug offenders as addicts rather than criminals.
For Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the first of July has passed, but not a state budget. For nonprofits in two of those states, the impasse poses a real problem.
Acknowledging that Snowden is a whistleblower rather than a traitor will go a long way to creating a path back for him.
We recently hosted a debate about billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson’s decision to donate $400 million to his alma mater, Harvard University. We explored whether the Ivy League is a worthy cause, or if Paulson’s money could have done more good elsewhere … say, by giving it directly to the poor. After our podcast was
JULY 7, 2015 UPDATE – The Slingshot documentary is screening in New York and Los Angeles this month. The Huffington Post just came out with a glowing review of the film: “If you want to make an indelible gift impact on your family, your friends, your children and yourself, Slingshot is a certain success.” Tiny Spark
In New Jersey, a nonprofit hospital has been successfully challenged and must pay property tax, but more worrisome is the conclusion of the judge that the nonprofit status of many hospitals may be “legal fictions.”
The saga of Lois Lerner’s missing emails drags on even as we head into an election season that may be warped by the IRS targeting scandal.
Reddit as a business runs only through the efforts of its volunteers, and it has many. But the culture of that volunteer force may now be at odds with a new corporate initiative to be a safer space.
A learning organization appreciates its past performance but does not rest on it, and is always open and looking for new ways to do deeper, better, more impactful work. It is an organization that does not use data just once, making one set of changes and then moving on. It creates an ongoing process of review, learning, and reflection. Leaders in these organizations regularly ask themselves, “Are we doing the best we can for every client?,” and look for the answer to that question in data, not just anecdotes. And for every improvement they make, they reassess, tinker, and continue to improve.