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Field Museum Board of Directors—Did Conflict Obscure Good Decision Making?
The Field Museum of Natural History is going through financial difficulties that some say were presaged in a memorandum sent to the board in 2006 that ended up ignored due to interpersonal politics.
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The Overhead Myth
NPQ is proud to highlight this important letter from GuideStar, Charity Navigator and the Wise Giving Alliance calling for an end to the obsession many have had with nonprofit overhead costs as a proxy...
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Why Can’t We Get Over Overhead?
Outcomes-based metrics may be more accurate and more effective, but they do not speak to the heart the way that program-focused endeavors do.
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Komen: Are We “Over It?”
A cancer survivor speaks out about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, calling founder Nancy Brinker “their biggest liability.” But is the drop in participation in the foundation’s signature three-day walks...
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Komen Cancels 7 Fundraising Walks as Participation Plummets
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has canceled its signature three-day walk in seven metro areas for next year. Despite the cutbacks, a spokesperson for Komen asserts that everything is under control.
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To Disclose, or Not to Disclose; That Is the Question
A number of 501(c)(4)s based in New York State are seeking exemptions from the law that requires them to disclose their well-heeled donors.
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A Museum Works Hard to Find Steady Ground in Milwaukee – It’s Not Easy
Many museums are having a tough go of it right now. The perfect storm often involves shrinking endowments, overspending on facilities, and exhibits that do not pay off. In Milwaukee there’s a...
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Indian Tribes Try to Cope with Shutdown
Columbus Day gives unfortunate glory to the acts of Western Europeans who nearly exterminated the indigenous peoples of the American continent, which Christopher Columbus purportedly “discovered” in...
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Real Nonprofit Execs of the O.C.
Watching the more-moneyed never gets old, but when we do so as regards highly paid execs in this sector, it has a different slant.
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Should New York City Opera Board Be Held Accountable?
You might not go quite as far as Manuela Hoelterhoff’s recommendation that they “should be pilloried,” but you do have to wonder about the board of the New York City Opera.
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NY State/Charity Take Their Time Releasing Prostate Cancer Funding
Eight years after its establishment, the New York State Coalition to Cure Prostate Cancer has disbursed none of the $1.8M it has been given.
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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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