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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Why a Living Wage Is Your Business
A down and dirty business case for paying a living, not a minimum, wage, and a nudge to the sector to take the issue on.
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Detroit Symphony Doing Well after Strike Resolution
Classical music companies are struggling across the United States to remake their business models. The Hawaii Symphony, the New York Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony have all...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Nonprofits in California’s Budget Surplus
CalNonprofits’ Sacramento lobbyist lays it all out for the Golden State’s nonprofits.
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Community Servings of Boston: A Successful Counterintuitive Approach to...
Just as Community Servings of Boston was facing increased demand and paying higher costs to feed more people, they were confronted by an economic downturn. How did they make it through? Careful...
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How Much Profit Does a Nonprofit Need?
This article by Woods Bowman, one of NPQ’s most popular writers on the financial lives of nonprofits, asserts that nonprofits do need profit— to prevent the steady erosion of the quality of their...
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Why Scaling Up Is Not Always about Growth
The concept of scaling has connotations of standardization, and social entrepreneurs must be cautious when speaking about it.
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Just Say No to Red Kettles?
Has the Salvation Army made enough of an effort to respect and include the LGBT community? Is it okay to drop those coins in the kettles? A group called “No Red Kettles” thinks not.
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Debatable: How Nonprofit Are Nonprofit Hospitals?
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that nonprofit hospitals average 7.5 percent of operating costs devoted to charity care and community benefit—based on the hospitals’ own self-reported...
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Finding the Right Development Officer for Your Organization: Part 2
Following up from her column last week, Simone Joyaux presents three dozen questions to ask in your search for your next fundraiser.
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Can Management Principles from Zappos’ Holacracy Teach Nonprofits?
The CEO of an online retail outlet has plans to replace his company’s traditional structure with an organization style without job titles or managers.
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As the World Turns: NPQ’s 10 Trends and 10 Predictions
In 2013, issues of economic instability and abridgements of freedom both in the United States and overseas vied with small but substantial gains in the progressive sphere. For a look at the past year...
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The Tyranny of Success: Nonprofits and Metrics
NPQ could not have a better way to mark the transition from 2013 to 2014 than with this beautifully told and powerful essay from Bill Schambra of the Bradley Center of Philanthropy at the Hudson...
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The Italian Foundation at the Heart of the Monte dei Paschi Bank Crisis
It’s quite amazing that there are 88 foundations in Italy with major holdings in scores of large banks, but in some cases, they are under pressure from national and extra-national bodies to loosen...
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LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art Comes Back from the Brink
After years of tumultuous leadership, financial problems and being picked over by rival institutions as a possible merger partner, MOCA is back on track and on a sustainable path, say its leaders.
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The Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit Financial Apocalypse
A Timely Reprint from the NPQ Archives NPQ has done any number of stories recently on nonprofits, their buildings, their debt, and finally the restructuring they are doing in the wake of the...
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What’s in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Nonprofits?
Today’s Congressional consideration of and possible vote on the fiscal 2014 federal appropriations bill will be historic. For the first time in many years, the federal government will operate under...
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Minnesota Orchestral Association Finally Comes to Terms with Musicians
The epic lockout of the musicians at the Minnesota Orchestra has lasted more than fifteen months and involved some moves by the musicians and the orchestra’s donors to establish an alternative...
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R.I. Urban League Sued by Employees of Its Homeless Shelter
The Urban League of Rhode Island is in one of those public organizational tailspins that require a strong board. Where is the board in this situation?
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Due Process Rights for Nonprofits? Don’t Count on It
What the heck was behind the shuttering of 15 behavioral health organizations in New Mexico last summer? Due process and transparency are definitely not the watchwords of this situation!
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Proof that Social Enterprise Can Succeed as It Fails
The Montreal-based nonprofit that helped established many big-city bike-sharing programs has declared bankruptcy. What are the takeaways?
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