Despite their common goals, legislators on different sides of the aisle are finding it difficult to hash out new, clear rules for handling the sorts of nonprofits that spurred the enhanced scrutiny that caused the IRS scandal. Is this a problem with the Internal Revenue Service, with the tax code, or with the fallout of the Citizens United decision?
What can we learn from the speed and efficiency with which One Fund Boston has managed the task of distributing moneys to those harmed by the April 15th Boston Marathon bombing?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development says that closing 16 of its 80 offices will save tens of millions of dollars. However, many of them provide services to the areas hit most hard by the housing crisis.
The creation of regional networks of African artists aids the development of civil society and may lead to a more democratic discourse in the nonprofit sector.
The impact of prospective cuts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will fall predominantly on people of color. Is this simply a disproportionately adverse impact of an ostensibly racially neutral policy proposal, or the logical result of conservatives’ attacks on federal entitlement programs?
In the face of the departure of the Ford Foundation’s Luis Ubiñas, William A. Schambra’s on the hunt for some truth to counteract the nonprofit world’s culture of polite silence.
Booz Allen Hamilton has an extensive corporate social responsibility agenda and strong connections to several of the nation’s top intelligence agencies. Do these two elements combine to say something about Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing?
Planned Parenthood is paring down its national network in the midst of massive shifts in national healthcare policy and continuing political challenges. Will they find strength in mergers?