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This Week:  Prudence In Our Political Environment  Following from our December episode, “Is It Paranoia Or Prudence?,” Gene Takagi and Amy Sample Ward return with updates from the grass roots on DE…

The third and final report in CEP’s study on the impact of MacKenzie Scott’s gifts on nonprofit recipients.

Episode #5, in which Vu Le and Robert Egger explore changes that need to happen within the nonprofit sector itself, so that organizations can create more visionary improvement in communities.Vu Le is ...

Image by Joel Muniz from Unsplash Idealist and VolunteerMatch, two nonprofits dominant in the space of digital volunteer recruitment, are merging, according to an announcement this week. The merger is...

Next week, because the universe has a perverse sense of humor, we have MLK Jr. Day on the same day...

Launched in December, the project provides a clearinghouse for nonprofit workers seeking to engage in philanthropic reform efforts.

A growing number of progressive young donors — and heirs to mining, oil, and other fortunes — are reshaping their family’s philanthropy. They are finding support through organizations like Resource Ge...

Program Officer, Natural Resources and Climate Justice - International The application deadline is on February 12, 2025. Please submit both a resume and a cover letter to be considered. ABOUT THE OPPO...

As billionaire philanthropists bend the knee to the new Trump administration, institutional funders must hold firm. Learn more with IP.

The wealthiest Americans in healthcare engage in relatively little philanthropy given the scale of their fortunes, based on a review of public records.

A group of retired Black women in Philly, many already skilled quilters and artists, gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here.

NPQ is expanding its board to strengthen our ability to support the justice-centered nonprofit sector in 2025 and beyond.    NPQ envisions a world in which we live in an active democracy whose values ...

2024 was the year of big corporations and billionaires. It was also the year in which Donald Trump was elected to serve as President of the United States; Republican candidates were elected to form…

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

Held just a couple weeks after the 2024 presidential election, Facing Race—the largest racial justice conference in the country—emphasized local organizing and building coalitions.

Candid insights | Learn why support and training for Latinx nonprofits' leaders and fundraisers can help position their organizations–many of which remain small and underfunded–to thrive.

Over the past decade, there have been growing criticisms that philanthropic foundations, which include a variety of grant making organizations, are elitist and inattentive to the needs of marginalized communities. While private foundations and community-based grant makers across the globe have slowly responded to these critiques, COVID-19 and the racial justice movement of 2020 have highlighted the imperative of addressing issues of inequality and structural racism. This convergence is propelling what may be the most substantial change in philanthropy in generations—a commitment to systematic change and the adoption of philanthropic practices that seek to redistribute philanthropic power to previously marginalized communities.

There’s certainly been intense reactions to the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act. It’s been labeled the “Nonprofit-Killer Bill” by some. I co…

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

The 2024 Nonprofit Standards Benchmarking Survey finds that the majority of nonprofits are now adopting AI tools in their operations and using relatively stable finances to consider expanding their mi...

"There's an old adage in the news business that journalists only cover the planes that crash. But in this case, we need to cover the planes that are taking off."

Candid insights | Find out why asking better questions in funder research and program evaluation holds the key to unlocking more equitable outcomes for the people that nonprofits serve--and get expert...

After nearly two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the Supreme Court was deeply divided in the case over state bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans minors.

BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

In our inaugural Climate Justice column, NPQ argues that not only is there a strong connection between climate and the arts, but the call to make art has never been more essential.

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