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Poison Centers Struggling with Sharply Reduced Funding
Anyone who has had to call the poison hotline in his or her area knows how important the service is. But does the public know that the funding for those centers has declined by a full third in the past...
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5 Lessons from Bernie Madoff for the Nonprofit Sector—And All of Us
Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernie Madoff seems to enjoy talking from his prison cell. If we get past his pleas for understanding and sympathy, there is much to learn about how to protect nonprofits and...
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Why is Chicago’s Opera Scene Thriving as Others Go Belly Up?
While operas in New York, Boston, and San Diego go under, the operas in Chicago—that’s right, plural—are thriving. What’s in the special sauce?
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Dan Snyder’s Redskins Foundation Chief Ran Nonprofit that “Wasted” $1m in...
A Special NPQ Exclusive Investigation: Dan Snyder has tapped Gary Edwards as CEO of his new Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, but why? Edwards’ track record in producing documentable...
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Trend Report: Sector-Switching
With all of the discussion of sector blurring, what questions are raised? NPQ’s Jennifer Amanda Jones provides a summary of some of the last year’s trend tracking through our newswire writers and others.
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Delaware Museum Expects “Shunning” as it Prepares to Sell Art
The Delaware Art Museum is risking the wrath of its peers in selling off some of its art work to pay back debt and replenish endowment.
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The Matrix Map: A Powerful Tool for Mission-Focused Nonprofits
You may have heard of the Dual Bottom Line: the idea that strategic choices must serve both mission impact and financial viability. But how do you turn this idea into a quantitative decision-making...
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Nonprofit Salary Differentials: The Ethicist Weighs In
The Ethicist takes up the ethics of salary differentials, a charter school full of unlicensed teachers and the valuation of donations under various conditions.
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The Mystery of the Missing Audience
How is it that the rate of overall opera attendance has declined over the past decade but ticket sales at Chicago’s Lyric Opera are up 15 percent? Woods Bowman thinks he has discerned some of the...
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San Diego Opera Board Delays Closure
Nearly 20,000 people have signed an online petition protesting the announced closure of the San Diego Opera. But unless at least some of them are ready to cough up about $10 million by the end of this...
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San Diego Operagoers Revolt—No Burying of Warm Bodies!
In San Diego, there has been a dramatic revolt against shutting down the area’s opera company.
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Can Philanthropic Oligarchy Nurture Economic Justice?
Admirable for his social justice ideals, Mike Edwards’ ideas go against the flow of today’s NGOs and funders. Despite their rhetoric of social justice, too many funders are devoted to business...
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Livestrong Still Adjusting and Charting New Course
In the aftermath of the Armstrong Scandal, the Livestrong Foundation must focus differently if it is to survive.
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Balancing the Mission Checkbook: Depreciate Your Way to a Healthier Nonprofit
If you are not already doing so, add depreciation expense to your current budgeting practices and boost your organization’s financial health.
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Some Nonprofit Hospital Executives Make 8-Figure Salaries
According to Crain’s New York, a few nonprofit hospital systems are paying their current or former CEOs in excess of $10,000,000.
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Who Brands Your Nonprofit? Who Tells Its Story and How?
This article by Carlo Cuesta is one of the best we have ever seen on the 21st-century intersection of engagement, dialogue with stakeholders, and brand. Though it is eventually bound for our print...
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Cities Want to Know How the Nonprofits They Fund Spend Their Money
Dramas playing out in Greensboro, NC and Los Angeles demonstrate the heightened scrutiny local governments are placing on the agencies they fund.
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New Offers for Detroit’s Art Collection May Nix Foundation Rescue Effort
The much-heralded effort by a consortium of foundations to transfer Detroit’s Institute of Art and its prized collection to a new nonprofit, shielding it from bankruptcy proceedings, has run into...
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When a Donor Becomes Tainted
FROM THE ARCHIVES When a donor becomes embroiled in scandal, how should a nonprofit respond?
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What a Disorderly Executive Transition Looks Like
You know an executive transition has not been orderly when….
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