The nation’s largest foundation devotedly solely to American Indians launched this month. How this fund emerged speaks to how the federal government continues to neglect Indian Country.
In another sign that open-source technology is fully in the mainstream, leading Hollywood studios have come together to initiate an open-source software repository for film and media producers.
The Northwest Mutual Foundation has found a nice alternative to exhibit its feelings about its own grantees.
Many NPQ readers will be familiar with the biblical sins of envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath. But philanthropy has its own set of sins. By being aware of these, and acting to avoid them, we can help ensure that philanthropy truly benefits the communities that it aims to serve.
Nearly five months after a so-called “forensic audit” detailed up to $100 million in losses through mismanagement and over-spending at the University of Louisville Foundation, the university still hasn’t decided whether to sue former President James Ramsey anyone from the foundation.
Is Louisiana’s new plan a “sidestep” of the legislative process, or a practical patch over a politicized spat that threatened the well-being of nonprofits and those they served?
In this “Voices from the Field,” Tim Delaney from the National Council of Nonprofits identifies what’s at risk when the nonprofit portion of infrastructure is underfunded.
This article is a call to arms to nonprofits and funders alike to not only banish forever the overhead ratio but also, and equally important, embrace the concept of full costs.
When the Social Innovation Fund started, it was heralded as a way to promote the scaling of innovative practice. Six years later, findings about the results are deemed merely “promising.” Is the major finding really that putting more money into already relatively large, well-capitalized organizations creates quicker movement forward?
As always, the Knight Report on the state of the nonprofit news field offers an interesting model for nonprofits in any field to emulate.
