When you read beyond the headlines of how much charitable giving occurred last year, you’ll find the economic backstory pretty alarming. Can you say “plutocracy”?
We love these studies that delve into the effects of fundraising messages on various folk. They can border on silly but are always thought provoking and sometimes instructive!
The new Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report could be seen as another piece of dire news, but let’s keep a long-term view and remember that we are in unpredictable times.
The state of California is running a large-scale trial to determine if providing medically tailored meals for chronic health sufferers leads to better health outcomes at lower cost.
A study commissioned by an alliance of human service nonprofits gives us a map of one county’s nonprofit sector. The report also aims “to raise the awareness” of the role that human service nonprofits play.
On social enterprise, we start at a different place from this Deloitte report and come to a fundamentally different conclusion.
Based on a new reporting requirement from the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), cities are, often for the first time, reporting their tax abatement payments to corporations, often used to “attract” employers to their cities. One important preliminary finding is that the cities that use tax abatements the most often have the highest levels of economic inequality.
Changes over the past two decades in longstanding patterns of Jewish funding have challenged nonprofit organizations to adapt or risk losing their support.
In 2018, we shouldn’t be surprised that structural racism pervades the North as well as the South, or that racially disparate police shootings are a product of systemic inequality rather than a few bad apples, but a new study from Boston University reinforces these truths.
A nonprofit’s research finds it’s more fun to visit the Magic Kingdom than to work there.
