NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

But every day, Ava and her nonprofit do what too many political “leaders” promise but don’t deliver: meet the needs of the communities they serve. She got to work, as nonprofit leaders do. Purpose-driven nonprofits expand the “We” of “We the People” when those in power seek to exclude people from it. Let’s call her Ava.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

Credit: Christian Ladewig on Unsplash Nonprofits that receive government contracts and grants have gotten used to waiting months or even years for payments, often for services already delivered. The resulting budget burden can push nonprofits to take out loans, scale back programs, lay off staff, or even close their doors.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Homelessness

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. Fact-checking is not enough.

Associations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

By John Palfrey Nonprofits are facing a crisis, and many in the charitable sector are fearful. Meanwhile, our freedoms to give, to invest, and to speak freely—freedoms that are foundational to our democratic society—are under assault. Many nonprofits have already gone underwater and more will. billion for science in 2022.”

Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Donors combined contributions to relieve over $15 billion dollars in medical debt for almost 10 million people living in the United States, facilitated by a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt. Another example is The Carbon Collective , creator of an equity fund that invests in publicly traded companies addressing climate change.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For 60 days, 60 percent of public schools in Lebanon were converted to displacement centers for families from various (predominantly Shiite) parts of the country seeking shelter in slightly safer areas. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

I’m a public and international affairs professor who researches nonprofits and philanthropy. I conducted a study in 2023 with Chengxin Xu and Huafang Li , two other scholars of nonprofit management, to better understand whether these costs influence how donors pick charities.

Public and Nonprofit Management

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. It was developed through a public consultation process that included CSOs.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. But did you know that 69 percent of nonprofits—nearly seven in 10—have budgets of less than $50,000?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 1, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Elissa Garcia on Unsplash AmeriCorps , an independent federal agency with a $1 billion budget that places over 200,000 people in intensive service roles each year, typically with host nonprofits, was formally established in 1993. For 30 years, it was a firmly bipartisan program. Why Does AmeriCorps Matter?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash Since Donald Trumps inauguration, his administration has escalated efforts against marginalized communities and the nonprofits that serve them. While a federal judge blocked the order and the OMB later withdrew its memo, the disruption has already destabilized nonprofit operations nationwide.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

As was noted in NPQ back in 2018, FCPRs approach on power, community organization, civil society, and racial equity sets it apart from the more established philanthropic approach focusing on strengthening large, established institutions. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

When President Trump began rolling back DEI Initiatives and clamping down on federal grant spending, the nonprofits executive director, Ashley Rogers, immediately started sorting through Trumps executive orders to determine what directly affected the museum and how the organizations approach might have to adapt. Whats absent?

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 24, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash On April 8, the Supreme Court issued a 7-2 decision in Office of Personnel Management v. The layoffs were coordinated by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under instructions from Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc. Dwidar Jul.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Photo by Jay Soundo on Unsplash Nonprofits are reeling, with many reporting fear of government reprisal and/or public or private backlash for addressing politically sensitive issues. Theres been what I call this chilling effect. Theres fear of retribution.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Image Credit: The White House from Washington, DC A coalition of nonprofits suing the White House over an attempted freeze of federal grants and loans says that the administrations subsequent rescinding of the freeze was in fact a bait and switch maneuvermeant to circumvent the court while still enforcing the funding freeze.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

Trump followed up with a memo from the Office of Management and Budget that ordered a temporary halt to all federal financial assistance related to nongovernmental organizations, among other institutions and initiatives. In the face of these political pressures and funding threats, nonprofit organizations are at a crossroads.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only is this where the largest share of undocumented immigrants in the United States come from, but its where millions of migrants from Latin Americaand beyondcould end up stuck, if Trump manages to further seal the border. There simply are not many domestic sources of funding for Mexican civil society groups.

Civil Society

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 24, 2025

For more than 50 years, our program at Drexel University in Philadelphia has helped train thousands of students for careers in arts management, fundraising, community engagement, and cultural planning. For instance, I help run one of the leading university-based arts administration departments in the country. And philosopher Olúf ẹ́mi O.

Foundations

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Maybe you relied on your database manager, digital fundraising specialist, or volunteer coordinator. 88% of nonprofits have budgets under $500,000. .” 88% of nonprofits have budgets under $500,000. Yet all of these strategies are fundamentally important if you want to be a successful fundraiser. Why is this important?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Oversight Project, once an initiative of the Heritage Foundation and now its own 501c4 entity, is best known for using public records requests and legal action to target what it unilaterally deems to be government overreach or misconduct. At many public universities, syllabi are deemed intellectual property.

Universities

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. Hodder told The NonProfit Times. “At An example of that is the Salvation Army. Five years ago, we had 5.8

Civil Society

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone. Did you enjoy this story?

Health

Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s. billion by the summer of 2020. .

Civil Society

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 29, 2018

Welcome to our latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. José is a professional with 12 years of combined experience in project management, marketing and communications, and innovation.

Communication

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I am delighted to be speaking in a master class for Columbia University's Nonprofit Management Masters Program. In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. You can sign up directly here -

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2025

So say various legal experts, executives, and nonprofit leaders who spoke with NPQ about the future of “AI governance” and the critical role nonprofits and advocacy groups can and must play to ensure AI reflects equity, and not exclusion. Advancements are being driven by profit motives rather than a vision for public good.”

Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Did you know that a handful of billionaires and asset managers have been buying up local newspapers, magazines, and TV stations? When a few ultrarich entities prioritize profits over public information, stories are at a huge risk of being one-sided—or never made public at all.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. If foundations see themselves as part of civil society, they must stop doing this.

Philanthropy