30 August 2010, 7:42 am
Nonprofit Newswire | Why Are Hispanics Underrepresented on Boards?

Read our most popular newswire here: The lack of concerted effort on recruiting and placing Latinos on foundation boards exacerbates the problem.

26 August 2010, 7:36 am
Nonprofit Newswire | Study Sheds Light on Who Gives and Why

Read our most popular newswire here: Fundraisers are likely to be poring over a new report that identifies preferred giving methods of donors by age and demographics.

21 August 2010, 8:37 pm
CNCS Says the Social Innovation Fund Will Release Ratings

According to the New York Times, the Social Innovation Fund has agreed to release the ratings of its review panels, a move that will very likely help observers understand why some groups about which there were questions, proceeded through the process to become grantees despite the fact that they received the lowest ratings from some panels. We believe this is a major step towards restoring attention to the substance, rather than to the process, of the SIF's work.

18 August 2010, 6:41 am
Youth Villages: A Research-Rich Organization

A new report says that in Tennessee, the system of care for foster children has been able to reduce the number of children in foster care over the past ten years by a staggering 34 percent. The outcomes are the result of a new approach that was informed by the research driven practice of Youth Villages. Read our profile of the group first published in our Spring 2006 issue.

12 August 2010, 8:56 am
Nonprofit Newswire | Nonprofits Lead For-Profits in Social Marketing

Read our most popular recent Newswire here. Charities are outpacing large and small businesses in adopting social marketing.

9 August 2010, 8:30 pm
Social Innovation Fund Disclosures Good But Insufficient

Last week the Nonprofit Quarterly issued a call for transparency at the Social Innovation Fund and yesterday the SIF issued an answer to that call, albeit one that still falls short of the openness that the Obama Administration promised to observe. 

5 August 2010, 7:36 am
The Giving Pledge—40 Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half

Read today's trending Newswire here: Buffett and Gates started buttonholing their rich and famous (or not so famous) peers from the Forbes 400 and ended up calling 70 to get 40, though they don’t plan to stop

1 August 2010, 7:00 pm
Questions of Transparency Cloud the Social Innovation Fund

The Obama administration has promised the American public that it would be the most open and transparent administration in U.S. history. To date, that promise has been contradicted by the design and implementation of the Social Innovation Fund, the administration’s flagship program for the nonprofit sector.

20 March 2008, 7:00 pm
Boards and Leadership Hires: How to Get It Right

How a board handles a leadership transition can have powerful and long-lasting effects. This article discusses how the board’s handling of this pivotal moment can result in long-lasting problems—and what your board can do to get it right. 

20 September 2005, 7:00 pm
Wanted: Master Storytellers

This is about storytelling: how journalists tell stories to citizens; how nonprofits tell stories to journalists to convey to citizens; how we tell stories to each other to try to make sense of what is happening to our families, neighbors, and people we don’t know. And this is a plea for better storytelling from the people in clinics and classrooms, programs and public agencies, who have their hands on America’s future.