Philanthropy
A Picture of Jewish Giving Provides Lessons for All
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Changes over the past two decades in longstanding patterns of Jewish funding have challenged nonprofit organizations to adapt or risk losing their support.
race in America
BU’s State Racism Index: The Results Might Surprise You
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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.
Walt Disney Company
Disney Workers Fight for a Living Wage
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A nonprofit’s research finds it’s more fun to visit the Magic Kingdom than to work there.
Inequality
Hidden in Plain Sight: US Latinx Inequality is Worst in Massachusetts
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In Massachusetts, a variety of structural factors, including high education requirements for jobs and a lack of a strong bilingual education programs in public schools, has resulted in the largest income and home ownership gaps between Latinx and whites in the nation.
arts funding
Grantmakers in the Arts Study Points to Positive and Negative Revenue Trends
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A new report commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts takes a deep dive into data and trends in arts funding since the 1980s, highlighting several current areas of concern for the field.
diverse boards
Making Your Board More Inclusive: Two Cases
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The older a nonprofit organization is, and the greater its budget, the less diverse its board is likely to be, a new BoardSource report finds. This may be a product of ingrained, if unconscious, bias. Changing these numbers clearly requires a multi-faceted approach.
opioid addiction
What is the Cost of Opioid Addiction in Your State? Here Are the Numbers
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A new study breaks down the cost of the opioid crisis by state. For West Virginia, the hardest hit state, total costs, including the value of lives lost, exceeded $4,700 per person in 2015.
catastrophe
Let’s Rewrite Today’s Headline: The Nonprofit Financial Sky Is Not Falling
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You will see many headlines today that revisit the notion that nonprofit enterprises are frail and misbegotten, headed toward a sure and ugly demise. The truth is that nonprofits are inconceivably agile and resilient—but we can always do better.
fighting poverty
Report Identifies Steps to Build Pathways Out of Poverty—But Are They Enough?
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A new report funded by the Gates Foundation proposes a five-point plan to help the poor make it out of poverty, but the steps seem insufficient to meet the scope of the challenge.
economic disparity
Facing Economic Polarity: Where To, Civil Society?
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Organizations dedicated to addressing poverty face growing challenges, as government supports decline and the giving habits of the ultra-rich threaten the democratic soil in which nonprofits flourish.