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Devex and Jean Case Promote the “Social Entrepreneurship Revolution”
Jean Case / Geoff Livingston August 26, 2015; Devex A Devex reporter named Adva Saldinger writes about “what the social entrepreneurship revolution needs now.” That word, “revolution,” may seem...
View ArticleNo Celebrity, Just Hard Work at this Sex Trafficking Organization
August 21, 2015; Devex Devex’s Jeff Tyson profiles Sharon Cohn Wu, a lawyer at the International Justice Mission, in an article that has specific relevance to NPQ’s previous coverage of the...
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Cheyney University Is the Latest HBCU in Serious Financial Trouble
"1909 Cheyney Library" by Smallbones at English Wikipedia; transferred to Commons by Stefan4 using CommonsHelper. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons. August 27, 2015; Philadelphia Inquirer...
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Franklin Graham’s Public Pronouncements and Nonprofit Salary
By Paul M. Walsh (Billy and Franklin Graham) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAugust 18, 2015; Deseret News (Religion News Service) Franklin Graham is the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and...
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Tempering Philanthropic Triumphalism: Nonprofits Give Voice to the Other New...
August 24, 2015; Facing South (Institute for Southern Studies) Amidst all the hoopla of the “resilience” of New Orleans ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has done...
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The 45th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium and Its Meaning for Today
Death of Rubén Salazar / Cliff August 27, 2015; National Catholic Reporter A few days ago, we passed a little-recognized but very important historical anniversary: the 45th anniversary of the “Chicano...
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Debating the Future of the Job Corps in the Wake of Violence at Campuses
Job Corps Centers / U.S. Department of Agriculture August 27, 2015; Washington Post One of the War on Poverty programs that has been allowed to wither on the vine is the Job Corps. This career...
View ArticleBlue Shield of California Does It Again: Huge but Undisclosed Compensation...
September 1, 2015; Los Angeles Times Does it make a whit of difference in the behavior of Blue Shield of California that it purports to be a nonprofit and is appealing a decision of the California...
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Countering the Attacks on the War on Poverty with Facts
The vituperative attacks on the War on Poverty sound a little gleeful or mean-spirited or nutty—sometimes all three. A quick review of recent press coverage would lead almost anyone to think that...
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Angelina Jolie Leaves Halo Trust over Board Members Paid for “Work”
Angelina Jolie calling for an end to rape as a weapon of war / UK Department for International Development September 2, 2015; Third Sector Congratulations to Angelina Jolie for demonstrating an...
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National Health Center Week and the Planned Parenthood Funding Controversy
September 2, 2015; Health Affairs A month ago, the nation celebrated National Health Center Week, celebrating 50 years of community health centers. Fifty years—get it? As in 50 years ago, it was the...
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Perhaps the Lessig and Trump Presidential Campaigns Are Dumbing Us Down
Lawrence Lessig / Joi Ito September 3, 2015; Washington Post To make a point about campaign finance corruption involving 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations, PACs, and Super PACs, Harvard Law...
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For Every Nonprofit: A Labor Day Agenda and Challenge
Editor’s note: This coming year promises to be one where labor questions will be front and center in national and local politics, and nonprofits of all types should consider taking strong, principled...
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Controversial Single-Issue Candidate Lawrence Lessig Responds to Critics
September 2, 2015; Equal Citizens After our newswire that contained criticisms of Lawrence Lessig’s campaign finance reform quest, a Lawrence supporter took us (in our hubris) to task for not...
View ArticleRefugee Crisis in Europe is World’s “Voyage of the Damned”
September 6, 2015; Washington Post The plight of the hundreds of thousands of refugees escaping the Middle East and North Africa, willing to risk death on the high seas in flimsy boats, only to be...
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The Nonexistent Rural Policy Platforms of the Presidential Candidates
September 6, 2015; Daily Yonder Writer Isaac Boone Davis and essayist and NPR commentator Dee Davis, founder of the Center for Rural Strategies, decided to look for the rural platforms of the...
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Importance of the Black Lives Matter Stance on National Political Parties
September 4, 2015; The Root Something tells us that the pressures on nonprofits to edge close to partisan politics will be especially intense this year. Nearly every prominent and not-so-prominent...
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Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Calls Out Philanthropy for Decreased Investment...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack / U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addressed the 2015 National Rural Assembly, but didn’t deliver a stock speech. Choosing instead...
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A Different Kind of Sports Philanthropy: European Soccer Clubs Help Refugees
September 9, 2015; New York Times It probably won’t happen at Gillette Stadium for the opening of the NFL regular season when the Patriots take on the Steelers, nor during the games this weekend. In...
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Time to Reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act
September 9, 2015; Indiana Public Media A quarter-century ago, a young man in Kokomo, Indiana inspired legislation that has had a profound impact in our nation’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The...
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