In a wide-ranging conversation, a group of community-based practitioners discuss both the potential and pitfalls of partnering with nonprofit anchor institutions—including hospitals, universities, and faith-based institutions—to achieve community goals.
Is the world’s greatest experiment in democratic governance under threat? How can we ensure that everyone in America has a stake in our society? These questions animated discussion among business, academic, and NGO leaders at the Aspen Institute Economic Security Summit.
The state legislature in North Dakota has redefined the scope of the state auditor to include the ability to audit not only state universities, but also the private foundations that are affiliated with them.
For many localities both here and abroad, local partnerships with government have been pivotal in establishing and maintaining art museums. Will we all live to regret that?
The unusual situation of the Crimson Tide Foundation isn’t just that it purchased the home of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban and ferries him and potential ’Bama players around during recruiting trips in a foundation-owned airplane, but that the 501(c)(3) foundation doesn’t feel the need, legally or otherwise, to file a Form 990 with the IRS.
