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Nonprofits: It’s Time to “Lean Into” Paid Internships
Let’s have a conversation: Are unpaid internships a moral issue for the nonprofit sector? This opinion piece suggests that unpaid internships are bad not only for interns but for the sector as a whole....
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New Report Sheds a Clarifying Light on Patterns of “Enterprise” in...
The Knight Foundation’s latest report lays out the state of enterprise for the field of digital news sites based in nonprofits in a way that we think may be useful to all nonprofits. We spoke to Mayur...
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Washington Post Investigates “Significant Diversions” of Nonprofit Funds as...
If hundreds of billions of losses are being claimed by large nonprofits, how much is actually going missing?
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Post-Recession Budgets and Boards
NPQ has been monitoring stories about the recovery, or lack thereof, of all types of nonprofits now that we’ve “passed the end of the recession.” We’d love to gather some of your stories about the...
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Murky Financial Concerns Close Big Brothers Big Sisters in SE Connecticut
Public understanding of nonprofits might be helped if nonprofits and funders discussed the financial challenges nonprofits face. This story about the closing of a Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate in...
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Would a Merger with Canada Save U.S. from Ourselves?
American right wing’s predilection for disastrous federal government shutdowns.
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Nonprofits Begin Coping with Government Shutdown
Not only will federal employees and national parks be impacted by the government shutdown—nonprofits will, too.
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Multi-Million Dollar Salaries and Perks for University CEOs on the Rise
Lavish perks and salaries increasingly characterize the job of university president at private colleges and universities in the U.S. It’s a matter of legitimate debate whether multi-million dollar...
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Will This Dance Group’s Fast Footwork in the Face of Bankruptcy Be Sufficient?
As Dance New Amsterdam restructures under Chapter 11, we find much that’s familiar in their predicament.
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Small and Informal and Vulnerable to Fraud: A Warning
Andrea Merrill, a founding board member of Kai’s Village, awaits arraignment on the charge of having allegedly taken $10,000 from the Worcester, Mass. nonprofit.
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Six Promising Dynamics for Detroit’s Revival
Detroit is bankrupt, shedding population, and aiming to knock down tens of thousands of vacant homes, but Detroit activist Larry Gabriel sees elements of the city’s revival already underway.
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The Budget Games: An Obscure 10-Week Funding Plan from House Republicans
The Fiscal Year 2014 budget games are starting in rapid fashion. See if you can figure out what’s behind the House Republicans’ plan to approve a spending plan for only 10 weeks of the fiscal year....
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Head Start Children: Government’s Go-To for Cuts
Thousands of children across 20 states lost access to Head Start on Tuesday as a result of the government shutdown.
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“Not for Profit” Is Not “For Profit”
If this simple statement is true, the implications are far more serious than are ever acknowledged.
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Whistleblower Upends CEO of Major New York City Poverty Organization
Charity CEO uses insurance carrier to use hundreds of thousands dollars a year for personal and political uses, many being the NYC political elite.
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New Clara Miller on Enterprise Capital
Over the years NPQ has published some real classics in the realm of nonprofit financial management, and a number of them were from Clara Miller, head of the F.B. Heron Foundation, who at the time...
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Founders Who are Effective Over Time: Their Characteristics
Is founders’ syndrome dependent on personal and organizational characteristics? This research, looking at world-class programs where founders have remained involved over decades, suggests it may be.
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Community Action Agencies: Too Often in News for Wrong Stuff
Prominent press mentions of community action agencies with financial troubles due to charges of mismanagement obscures the amazing poverty-fighting work of so many of these nonprofits.
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Have Progressives Forgotten Campaign Finance Reform?
Democrats have long championed campaign finance reform, but with super PACs helping President Obama win in 2012, will their concerns about big money eroding democracy fade?
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Taxation, the Fiscal Cliff and Mr. Buffett
In a New York Times editorial, Warren Buffett suggests that the U.S. should tax the wealthy more and, despite debt talk, should continue to spend more than it takes in in revenues.
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