While both glitter in the sunlight, an assayer can easily separate fool’s gold from the real. Distinguishing genuine grassroots organizations from political front groups is not so easy. Whether this is a real concern for the larger nonprofit community is, however, a question.
Waco is the first school district to partner with a community nonprofit, as opposed to a charter operator, in a turnaround partnership.
Banking has changed in the 40 years since the CRA was enacted, and so has the ways communities and banks interact. To preserve the CRA’s goals, maybe it’s time to reframe the law.
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Nexus, a funding intermediary, was attracted to the idea of “community wealth building”—that is, using common ownership of land and business to build wealth. But Nexus decided that the approach could only be effective if grounded in the cultures of the communities it serves.
A single director of development not working for your organization? This extraordinary webinar provides a bird’s-eye view of how a successful nonprofit “culture of philanthropy” works. Come listen to Jeanne Bell and representatives from two social justice nonprofits describe their keys to fundraising success.
This week, Tennessee lawmakers withdrew funding for the Memphis’ bicentennial celebration as punishment for the city’s removal of two Confederate statues from a public park without the legislature’s approval. But residents of the city, who supported the removal in the first place, have largely replaced the money through crowdfunding, exerting ownership over their own history.
In an op-ed, a business writer calls on credit card issuers to stop financing automatic rifle purchases. It could be a useful step, but is it enough?
The loss of the once high-flying but now defunct Families for Excellent Schools may not have been so hard on its nonprofit colleagues.
This cultural change project regarding tobacco use involves a powerful collaboration of eleven American Indian nations, local nonprofits, and the Minnesota state government.
The planning that went into Memphis’s dramatic act of reconciliation on Wednesday was careful, strategic, driven by the public, and relatively swift. As a result, two Confederate statues will no longer loom over the city on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death. Thank you, Memphis, for sending us all into the holidays with an act of conscience and hope.
