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Museums in Cold Milwaukee See Revenues Slip and Fall
Field-wide comparative information is sometimes like gold; for instance, it can help indicate where problems in performance might lie.
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20/20 Hindsight: A Cautionary Tale in Governance
Making and then almost immediately changing a critical decision that has been extensively covered by the national press does not inspire confidence in World Vision’s governance. What can we learn?
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African-American Museum in Kansas Gives Land Back to City
Without sufficient funds to proceed with building a new facility, the board of the Kansas African American Museum has voted to give back to the city a prime riverfront property and to postpone plans...
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High-Profile Charity Telemarketer Files for Chapter 11
One of the largest U.S. charity telemarketers has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. What jumps out is not that this is a story of hard times. It is that it is a story about a practice that seems...
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Oakland Group Shutters Operations Without Notice
Recently, NPQ has noted many stories of organizations suddenly giving up with little or no notice. In this case, the 25-year-old Women’s Initiative for Self Employment closed on April 7, 2014,...
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Foundations, Pensions, and the Detroit Institute of Art: Still a Complicated...
Police and fire department retirees appear to have signed off on their end of the Detroit bankruptcy deal, predicated in part on the state government and private foundations capitalizing an $816...
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Heroes and Heroines: Detroit’s Local Nonprofits
While the city, state, foundations, and creditors negotiate the contours of the Detroit plan to escape municipal bankruptcy, it is important to remember the work that is going on to return Detroit’s...
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$30 Million Debt at Milwaukee Y Leads to “Massive Restructuring”
The 155-year old YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee plans a major restructure to retire a major $30 million debt.
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Minimum Wage: Tough Choices for States, Cities, and Nonprofits
The momentum for increased minimum wages at state and city levels has led to some disturbances from the nonprofit field. A few nonprofits are concerned that increasing the minimum wage means increasing...
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Pension Fund for Artists Capitalized by Pooled Artwork
The capital investment behind the Artist Pension Fund isn’t stocks or bonds—it’s the artists’ own creations, to be eventually sold for the benefit of all the selected artists in one of nine investment...
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The Continuing San Diego Opera Saga: Hope amid High Drama
Following the resignation of its president and 13 other board members, Opera San Diego extends its proposed closing date to mid-May. Community support seems to be growing, but will it be enough?
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Successful Successions: Executive Transitions that Worked
Executive transitions need to address the realities of the individual organization at the time in question. This article from the point of view of a skilled transition consultant discusses a number of...
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Ethics Ruling in CT: Public College Foundation Can’t Spend on President’s Wife
The money raised by the private foundation arms of public colleges are—or ought to be—subject to state ethics rules. In Connecticut, that’s true, and the rules caught the president of Norwalk Community...
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A Step to Take to Prevent Harm from a Big Grant
This story not only addresses the danger that can be posed by a large grant that’s not fully vetted, but it also puts forward a process used by NeighborWorks America to prevent that harm.
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Hidden Dissension and Tortured Alliances: NPQ’s Dr. Conflict Speaks Out
Whether it’s buried conflicts in the workplace or a pathological executive director, no problem is too difficult for the good doctor.
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Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice
There are three key characteristics every organization should develop in order to create a fruitful environment for shared leadership: adaptability within the leadership spectrum; an orientation toward...
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Social Enterprise Plans to Clean Up in Queens
Cooperatives are much under-recognized in the U.S. as social enterprises, but this story about a cleaning cooperative owned by 15 low-income women makes it clear why we should pay a lot more attention.
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Pittsburgh Struggles to Ensure August Wilson Center Survives Whole
The Pittsburgh area has made a big investment in the August Wilson Center for a reason, and that is in having the AWC survive as a strong African American cultural presence in the area.
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Safety Net Program Funding Not Ensured by Flush State Budgets
After five years of increasing revenues, many states are reporting balanced budgets for 2014 and are looking forward to a continuation of that positive budget dynamic for fiscal year 2015. That doesn’t...
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Community Groups in Miami-Dade Mobilize to Save Public Libraries
It’s a textbook example of grassroots community groups advocating on behalf of critical—and beleaguered—public institutions.
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