Obama’s Policing Task Force Releases Report on Day FBI Investigates SC School...
October 27, 2015; U.S. Department of Justice On the heels of the news of videos of a white South Carolina school police officer wrestling a black teenage girl out of her math class, with mixed reviews...
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A Macabre Organ Transplant Idea for Reviving the Puerto Rican Economy
Puerto Rico (San Juan) / Ricardo Mangual October 22, 2015; Reuters Some stories about the perverse behavior that emanates from our society and its economic system are so macabre as to beggar disbelief,...
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Stories of those Homeless Who Don’t Fit the “Housing First” Model
October 7, 2015; Street Sense For those who are concerned about homelessness in the United States, it is worthwhile read the “street papers” that are produced and sold by homeless persons in many...
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Looking Back at the War on Poverty: A Conversation with Sheldon Danziger
“LANDSCAPE” BY MILENA SURDUCAN / WWW.MILENASURDUCAN.COM Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s fall 2015 edition, “Making Things Work: Considerations in Nonprofit Strategy.” In some political...
View Article7th Black Church Arson in St. Louis Area in 2 Weeks: A Pattern and a Problem
October 26, 2015; Pew Research Center This past summer, NPQ wrote about a spate of arsons at black churches. In the St. Louis area, there have been at least seven suspected arsons during a two-week...
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IRS Commissioner Koskinen on 501(c)(4) Regulations: No Timeline
October 27, 2015; New York Times If you’re looking for Ruth McCambridge’s story on vendors of charity “fun runs,” click here. A technical glitch in the NPQ Newswire email led to a misdirected link....
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George Soros and the Open Society Foundations’ Take on the EU’s Refugee Crisis
October 19, 2015; Open Society Foundations Billionaire George Soros was once a refugee, a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of his homeland. It should be no surprise that the Open Society...
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“Too Big to Fail”: Megabanks Bigger than Ever, Nonprofits Growing Slower
dance of the banks / frankieleon October 27, 2015; American Banker At the launch of his campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders called for breaking up the big banks that were responsible in large part for...
View ArticleMoveOn Takes the Lead in Nonprofits Advocacy for Refugee Crisis Funding
October 22, 2015; National Catholic Register Why isn’t more funding coming from U.S. charitable donors and philanthropic grantmakers to address the refugee crisis in the Middle East, Africa, Europe,...
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Political Sideshow: 3 Policy Initiatives More Spectacle than Substance
Old Kids Book / 'Playingwithbrushes' At Nonprofit Quarterly, one of the more important components of our vision of the nonprofit sector is its role as a stalwart defender of democracy. But we also view...
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Clinton Calls for Investigation of ExxonMobil—But Why Now?
Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com October 30, 2015; International Business Times David Sirota and Andrew Perez report in the International Business Times that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton...
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Alleged Arsonist of St. Louis Area Churches Is 35-Year-Old Black Man
October 30, 2015; ABC News A 35-year-old black man has been arrested in connection with at least two of the arson incidents at black churches in the St. Louis/Ferguson area of Missouri. His motive...
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Is Netanyahu’s Scheduled Speech at CAP Providing Progressive Cover?
October 28, 2015; Jerusalem Post One of the recent controversies floating around the Beltway involves the decision of the Center for American Progress to host a major address by Benjamin Netanyahu on...
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Problems Getting Nonprofit Hospitals to Comply Fully with the ACA
By Photo Du.de [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsOctober 28, 2015; Modern Healthcare Because of strident Republican opposition to the legislation and lackluster moderate Democratic support, the...
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L.A. County Board of Supervisors Votes to Adopt the OMB Uniform Guidelines to...
November 3, 2015; California Association of Nonprofits “Working together, governments and nonprofits are able to address needs in our society that they can’t tackle alone,” said Jan Masaoka, the CEO...
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Cyclone Chapala Doubles Down on Humanitarian Aid Crisis in Yemen
November 3, 2015; USA Today According to USA Today, Cyclone Chapala was the second-strongest cyclone on record ever to hit the Arabian Gulf. The storm hit the coast of Yemen, causing numerous deaths...
View ArticleBrookings Paper Identifies Analytical and Programmatic Shortcomings in...
October 29, 2015; The Brookings Institution In his role as a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, Fredrick C. Harris, a professor of political science at...
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Election Results that Should Mean Something Special to Nonprofits—Good and Bad
November 3, 2015; Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Earlier this week were a number of off-year elections, but many contests and ballot initiatives got scarce coverage in the TV news cycle,...
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Adidas Will Help Teams Drop Slurs and Stereotypes about Native Americans
Robert Griffin III / Keith Allison November 5, 2015; Washington Post In Washington, D.C., the biggest sports controversy day-in and day-out is whether 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III...
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Lessig’s Out of the 2016 Race: Here’s His Next Campaign Finance Reform Job
November 2, 2015; Washington Post Whatever one thought of Harvard law professor Larry Lessig’s single-issue presidential bid, focused exclusively on campaign finance reform, there is no question in...
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