Safety concerns top an extensive list of Mariner East Pipeline grievances. The project will carry highly combustible liquids through densely populated Pennsylvania areas.
Community activists may need to throw out many of the old ways of thinking about public-private collaborations in favor of more fluidity and agility. This article suggests the notion of collaborative windows of opportunity is more important (and potentially fleeting) than we may have previously assumed.
Two leading data providers—one focused on nonprofits, the other on philanthropy—announce they have now joined forces. The combined entity will have a budget of close to $40 million and will be a more dominant data source for the civil sector.
Could there be a broader lesson in a current strike over authorship for actors and stage managers working in “labs” that lead to future Broadway plays?
In Miami, a national bank and a leading human service agency join forces to support the development of worker cooperative businesses as a poverty-reduction strategy.
This fun and informative webinar discusses the role of the board in crafting various types of strategic alliances between nonprofits. There’s been a significant cultural shift in the way we view these arrangements—one that deeply informs practice.
It may be that one of the reasons that mergers are not approached with more enthusiasm is because they are being sold more negatively than they should be. Approaching them as a strength-promoting proposition might work better, no? That said…
While proposals to turn schools into fortresses in the name of safety are absurd, promoting true safety and a community of care is more challenging. A low-income neighborhood school in San Diego shows how it can be done. At Cherokee Point Elementary, teachers, administrators, and staff have embraced a “trauma-informed school” model—with dramatic results in terms of both disciplinary and academic achievement. It is a model gaining traction across the nation.
Nonprofits should pay close attention to what happened after the closing of Architecture for Humanity. There’s a lot to learn about organizational design.
AN NPQ CLASSIC: This article reveals the critical environmental factors in some nonprofits that create fertile ground for shared leadership.
