When and how should an organizational board share its thinking about organizational change and engage its stakeholders? How is it best to balance the efficient decision-making a closed-door process can offer against the potentially messier and more political nature of a wider process? Well, do you want a small mess now, or a big, angry one later?
In Chicago, a nonprofit succeeds in collecting millions in housing development and management fees but fails to provide quality affordable housing.
As a growing number of museums diversify their collections to include works and collections from voices outside the historically Eurocentric canon, a Chicago nonprofit that digitally archives photos and articles from historically black newspapers is teaming with Google to reach a wider audience.
When an important nonprofit institution experiences waves of staff and board departures, serious questions will always be raised.
The desire to use a popular “native son” former president to drive economic development in his home town is enmeshed in a struggle over who will decide how its impact is planned and controlled.
The Obama Foundation moves one step closer to its goal of integrating a public library branch into its Jackson Park Presidential Center—but will it balance the gentrification the center is likely to bring to Chicago’s South Side?
In Chicago, as in much of the nation, a nonprofit journalism sector, despite less-than-stable funding, grows in prominence and has expanded in many creative directions, giving voice to many who would otherwise be voiceless in the public sphere.
The Art Institute of Chicago has received a historic gift. What will they do with it?
Sometimes, when addressing affordable housing, it is helpful to recall the past. In Chicago, an old and sometimes forgotten model—the limited equity housing co-op—is making a comeback.
The Foundation’s announcement comes amidst increasing opposition to plans for its Presidential Library in the South Side.
