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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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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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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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From Black Boxes to Random Acts of Culture: Opera Companies Find New Ways to...
Necessity just may be the mother of new opera, as companies around the globe experiment with smaller venues, opera in unexpected places and other innovative ways to nurture new audiences and emerging...
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Washington Post Diversions Piece: What it Really Means
Sometimes organizations perpetrate fraud, sometimes they are victims. In the Washington Post’s investigative report on “diversions” of nonprofit assets, the nonprofits involve look more like victims...
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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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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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Would a Merger with Canada Save U.S. from Ourselves?
American right wing’s predilection for disastrous federal government shutdowns.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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