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Does McEnroe Charity Just Feed the Club that Holds His Tennis Academy?

An investigative article in the New York Post asserts that John McEnroe’s charity may be primarily a tool to prop up a for-profit business plan.

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Met Opera Lockout Delayed as Both Sides Agree to Financial Examination

With a federal mediator and an independent financial analyst involved, Met management and unions have extended contract talks twice in recent days.

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Big Foundation Investment Produces Big Fail in a News Site

Proving once again that money doesn’t mean everything in nonprofit sustainability, a nonprofit investigative news site goes belly up in Santa Barbara.

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Toward a Nonprofit Theory of Leadership and Organizational Culture

With all the talk about the need for “leaderful organizations,” few have set out to so clearly lay out a set of practices to create one. Leave it to MCN!

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Social Impact Bonds: Phantom of the Nonprofit Sector

Sometimes the nonprofit sector appears haunted by the specters of unproven “great ideas.” Do social impact bonds fit in that category?

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Are There Too Many Nonprofits in Milwaukee?

A study looks at the growth and relative health of the nonprofit sector in Milwaukee.

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Working out of a Financial Tailspin: Amistad America

It’s common for young nonprofits to create reputational problems for themselves by getting too much money before attending to the financial basics.

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Nonprofit Retains Supporters while Coming Clean regarding Financial Impropriety

Just because a nonprofit experiences a problem with financial impropriety, it need not mean that it becomes a scandal. Some of the tenor of the response may live in the communications to stakeholders...

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Report Shows Financial Contribution of Utah’s Community Health Clinics

Community health centers have grown a lot over the past few years, and they will surely grow more in the next few, so it is critical that they communicate the effect of their programs on communities....

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Why the Obama White House Says “No!” to the America Gives More Act

The America Gives More Act passed the House of Representatives this week. Just about every Republican who could find his or her way to the floor voted in favor of the proposed charitable incentives for...

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House Guts IRS Tax Enforcement Budget; Nonprofit Sector Silence Is Deafening

It has been said that there really isn’t a problem of nonprofit accountability, but of regulatory oversight and enforcement of nonprofit standards by the IRS. If the U.S. House of Representatives gets...

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Small Nonprofit with Repeated Deficits, Expands and Stabilizes

Many small nonprofit organizations are still suffering in the aftermath of the recession. Some have gone under or remain in uncomfortable financial straits, but others have been able to reorganize...

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Dynamic Governance: Kicking Employee Engagement Into Overdrive

NPQ has written a lot over the years about the value of engagement in the development of programs that creatively meet the needs of a community. In this story, employee and resident engagement are...

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To Diversify, or Not to Diversify Revenue—(It’s Complicated)

Some conversations about nonprofits seem to have a life of their own, like the one about whether it is better for nonprofits to diversify their income bases or not. The answer is, “It depends…”

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St. Paul Library Finds New Life as Home for “People’s History”

When a former Carnegie library moved its collection to a larger facility earlier this year, two professors—one a labor historian, one a theater artist—saw just the opening they had been looking for to...

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A Common Picture: Two Philadelphia Arts Organizations Struggle with Debt Come...

NPQ has been chronicling the struggles of too many arts organizations which were affected by the recession in a very particular way. Here is what the pattern we have seen looks looks like.

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Financial Cautionary Tales for Nonprofits (Google+ Hangout)

Kate Barr of the Nonprofits Assistance Fund joined Nonprofit Quarterly for a special webinar where Kate shared vividly illustrated cautionary tales about how to avoid common nonprofit financial traps....

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Improbable Tales: Nonprofit Gives Back $10 Million Grant (and $10M Match)

When is a multimillion dollar grant not needed? When it locks you into a way of doing things that is either unsustainable or simply not ideal.

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Under Re-Construction: San Diego Opera Cutting Costs and Rebuilding Trust for...

After the highly publicized near-closure of the San Diego Opera this spring, the organization has cut its operating budget by about a third—including some staff layoffs—and is preparing to raise the...

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Reporter Views Lack of Salary Disclosure as Provocative Indicator

An Asheville, N.C reporter reveals a bit of his thinking and it is worth considering: In his opinion, when an organization working with tax dollars refuses to reveal top salaries, they warrant a deeper...

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