Opinion: L.A.’s Modern-Art Museum Should Distance Itself From Eli Broad
New York Times critic Roberta Smith asserts that “domineering” patron Eli Broad and a passive board of trustees threaten the future of Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Grant Makers Need to Help the Poor Fight Legal Injustices
By helping people get lawyers to fight spousal abuse, home foreclosures, and other basic survival issues, foundations can make their grants go further.
By MARY MCCLYMONT
Contributor
Voter-Suppression Laws Should Be High on the Agenda of All Nonprofits
How can we expect to advance policies to improve our schools, protect our environment, and care for the elderly if we do not allow everyone the opportunity to elect decision makers?
By Benjamin Todd Jealous
Contributor
Small Foundations Can Spur Big Changes: One Grant Maker Shows How
The Tow Foundation vowed to overhaul the juvenile-justice system and found that strenuous advocacy plus lots of collaboration paid off.
By Emily Tow Jackson
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Opinion: Empathy Gap a Factor in Rich’s Lower Giving Rate
A former NPR chief and author of a new book on giving in America examines why the wealthy contribute a smaller percentage of their income to charity than do poorer people in The Atlantic magazine.
Opinion: Social-Enterprise Group Questions Toms Shoes Model
The head of an organization that works with for-profit social enterprises says in a New York Times blog post that the buy-one, give-one approach popularized by footwear firm Toms Shoes risks perpetuating poverty.
How a Misguided War Led to a Powerful Nonprofit Partnership
Journalistic organizations with a social mission channeled skepticism about the invasion into a powerful decade-long effort to focus on major social issues.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
Foundations Must Step Up Giving to Government Watchdogs
President Obama’s bad decisions about mixing money and politics, and his ill-considered use of community organizing, make clear why such groups need to be strong.
By PABLO EISENBERG
Contributor
Opinion: Grassley Questions Colleges’ Salaries and Spending
The Wall Street Journal published a memo from Sen. Charles Grassley’s office listing the congressional nonprofit watchdog’s top concerns about .the financial decisions of U.S. colleges and universities.
Donor Collaboration Can Bring Big Results, but Most Philanthropists Prefer to Go Solo
When philanthropists want to venture into new areas and promote widespread change, they may want to stop going solo.
By Willa Seldon
Contributor