In Sacramento, a local public radio station partners with 12 community groups to cohost six Study Circle discussions that foster conversation regarding affordable housing across racial and class divides.
A SCOTUS labor case offers a lesson in the merits of explanatory chains.
This article is from the Nonprofit Quarterly’s Winter 2016 edition, “Social Media: The New Nonprofit Nonelective.” We’ve brought it forward today since the US Senate just voted to overturn the FCC’s revocation of net neutrality. Net neutrality, of course, aims to safeguard democratic access to the Internet where many nonprofits spend and accumulate social capital. While the Senate’s action is a positive step, the effort to restore net neutrality still faces many hurdles.
This article from the Nonprofit Quarterly is a treasure trove of examples of how 26 small organizations respond to the challenges and constraints they encounter with their uses of social media for organizing and engagement.
Advocates for children and families have demonstrated the public’s capacity to understand the research and scientific principles behind brain science and early childhood development. Here, FrameWorks promotes metaphors that have the power to deepen public understanding of brain plasticity and resilience and to strengthen support for children at every stage of development.
Today, NPQ announces an exciting new partnership with the FrameWorks Institute to illuminate the art and science of framing contested social issues in public discourse.
The Holocaust Museum’s Syria policy study produced such fierce backlash that it was pulled almost immediately after its release. If they’d known about the study, perhaps the museum’s governing committees could have prepared, but a truly astonishing lack of communication among the staff left the museum alone on a limb.
Did the “head of the Boy Scouts” really call Trump with high praise for his partisan speech?
Something all nonprofits need to know about communications during a crisis: Hiding in the bushes in the dark of night is a terrible look.
Power differentials across the sector can play out to the detriment of social change. Turning a set of community interests into “foundation-speak” is essentially world-view translation in favor of those who control the money. We’ve heard this before, but it seems to be treated as a surprise each time.
