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Chattanooga: A Model of Urban Revitalization, or Inequality and Gentrification?
September 29, 2015; Brookings Institution The vice president and director of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, Bruce Katz, has been a promoter of the concept of “innovation...
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Greens in Australia Provide Lessons for US Communities Transitioning from Coal
October 11, 2015; The Age The claims to fame of the Latrobe area of Pennsylvania are Rolling Rock beer and Arnold Palmer. In the very far away Latrobe Valley of Australia, one of the less attractive...
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Indictment of Former Chicago School Chief Offers Lesson for Nonprofits
October 8, 2015; Chicago Reader Public education in Chicago generates lots of news, given Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s practice of closing public schools, opening charter schools, and threatening (through his...
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Choosing an Alternative to Honoring Christopher Columbus
October 7, 2015; Common Dreams It’s old news, so to speak, about Christopher Columbus. The Genoese explorer received his commission and subsidy from the Spanish monarchs who also brought the...
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California’s Gov. Brown Nixes Official Use of NFL’s Racial Epithet Nickname
October 11, 2015; Sacramento Bee Give the California legislature and Governor Jerry Brown credit for taking an official stance against the racially derogatory epithet that is the strongly-defended...
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The Real Issues about the Questionable Expert in the Tamir Rice Case
October 10, 2015; Cleveland Plain Dealer (Northeast Ohio Media Group) The special investigator hired by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office has issued an eight-page report exonerating Cleveland...
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A Nobel Economics Prize That Speaks to the Nonprofit Sector
October 13, 2015; New York Times Justin Wolfers, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, explains the qualifications of Angus Deaton for the Nobel Prize in economics...
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Why 5 New Nonprofit Health Insurance Cooperatives Failed to Thrive: the...
Abandoned Photochemical Factory / Jan Bommes What explains the announced shutdowns this year of five of the nonprofit health insurance co-ops meant to provide competition for the private health...
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Thanks to Penn State Football, the Open Wounds of the Sandusky Scandal Still...
October 2, 2015; Centre Daily Times (State College, PA) Sometimes, you really have to wonder about the judgment of people who should know better. Penn State University had planned to honor Bruce Heim,...
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The Persistence of Ebola: A Disease of People and of Bureaucracies
October 14, 2015; Washington Post How quickly the public shifts its attention, relegating world-changing crises and controversies to the memory dustbin once the issues appear to be resolved or, in the...
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A Sixth Nonprofit Health Insurance CO-OP Goes Under
October 14, 2015; Commercial Appeal Earlier this week, NPQ’s lead story discussed five consumer-governed nonprofit health insurance cooperatives that had announced they were going out of business....
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US & Aus. Doctors Take Action on Health Impacts of Manmade Climate Change
October 17, 2015; The Lancet The recently deposed prime minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, was known for having described the science of climate change as “absolute crap.” With that statement, Abbott...
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Two More Nonprofit Insurance CO-OPs Shuttered: Implications for the ACA and...
October 16, 2015; The Hill Add Oregon and Colorado to the list of states whose nonprofit consumer-oriented health insurance cooperatives have shut down. Health Republic Insurance in Oregon voluntarily...
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Northwestern U. Student-Athlete Case to Head to Supreme Court
September 30, 2015; SCOTUS Blog Remember our commentary on the Northwestern University case regarding paying “student-athletes” for their labor as players with NCAA collegiate football teams? The...
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Nonprofits and the Surprising Canadian Election
October 5, 2015; Imagine Canada Yesterday, Canadians went to the polls to elect a new government, which appears to have vaulted the Liberal Party to a governing majority, making Justin Trudeau the...
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Governments & Gates Foundation Finance the Fight to Eradicate Polio
October 17, 2015; The Lancet After all the bad news about the continuing problem of Ebola, including its persistence in the fluids of some people who thought they had been cured of the disease, there...
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What Makes a Charity Tax-Exempt? Issues for Government Oversight and Due...
Gene Takagi, Image Source: Twitter October 19, 2015; LinkedIn, “Pulse” It should be no surprise that 15-year-old Hana co-authored a post with her uncle Gene titled, “Why Are Charities Tax-Exempt?”...
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Some Reasons behind Societal Neglect of Rural Poverty—and Rural America
October 22, 2015; In These Times Nonprofit Quarterly has long raised questions about the insufficient and sadly declining response of foundations to rural America. There are problems of philanthropic...
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Senate Reconciliation Bill Shows Disturbing Attitudes for Affordable Health...
October 25, 2015; Politico Nonprofits concerned about healthcare might be well advised to pay attention to the reconciliation bill making its way through the Senate. As explained by Caitlin Owens of...
View ArticleBradley Foundation’s Grebe to Leave Philanthropy but not Politics
October 22, 2015; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel The CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Michael Grebe, has announced his retirement. In his letter posted on the Bradley Foundation website,...
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