Let’s emphasize: Reconsidering the context and content of the work, Open AI’s leaders concluded that to safeguard the public good, less openness is called for.
George Mason University accepted another large gift from the Koch Foundation last week. As the sector worries increasingly about the undemocratic influence of large donations, we must ask, to whom are the universities training our future leaders responsible?
Transparency requires a different kind of attention. This story is instructive on the importance of the details.Co
In the wake of successful teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill to require more transparency from charter schools.
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation after a $1.55 billion project swelled to $9.2 billion and suggestions that staff of a private engineering firm were given key roles, including budget oversight.
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is making it clear that he wants nonprofits to observe transparency principles, and he is ready to push for new rules to ensure it happens.
The “gut and replace” practice of the Hawaii legislature, whereby a bill’s contents can be removed and replaced with completely different language even after public hearings and committee approvals, is being challenged by nonprofit advocacy groups.
The real problem here isn’t that costs aren’t transparent, but that our health care system, which consumed 18 percent of GDP in 2017—more than $3.5 trillion—is irrational.
Observers have long noted the problem of the revolving door between federal agencies and the nation’s largest corporations. Now, we see the same dynamic recreate itself in the nonprofit sector, threatening the public’s confidence in our sector’s stewardship.
Increasingly, Memorial Sloan Kettering, a leading nonprofit cancer research center, has formed close and intertwined relationships with for-profit organizations. Like many of its peers, it has become less concerned about compromising its autonomy.
