For decades, women- and Indigenous-led institutions have designed their work around the belief that decisions about money ...
In the wake of the mass movement against anti-Black racism that arose in 2020 following the police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others, both foundations and corporations have ...
Editors’ note: This article is from the Winter 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health,” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, ...
In emergency management and disaster response, a common refrain is “all disasters start and end locally.” In the first couple of hours or even days after a disaster hits, neighbors rescue neighbors, ...
This article comes from the spring 2020 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly. At a recent meeting with nonprofit managers, only a few of the fifty attendees were familiar with the notion of stakeholders ...
Those who donate to nonprofit organizations naturally want to feel their gifts will be used successfully in a way that will improve society or some part of it, like children, the sick, students, etc.
But these exercises have left the underlying structural issues unaddressed. They do not address the deep democracy deficit, they do not speak to power relations in society, and they do not in any way ...
President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping review of federal funding for all nongovernmental organizations—including thousands of domestic nonprofits doing everything from providing shelter and ...
Editors’ Note: This article comes from the Summer 2021 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “The World We Want: In Search of New Economic Paradigms.” Last summer, millions of people mobilized worldwide ...
Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards, a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, ...
How can philanthropy effectively support narratives of liberation? As people who traverse the interconnected areas of narrative and philanthropy, this question has been at the center of our work for ...
In 2005, a group of disabled activists—predominantly, queer women of color who came from movement spaces that did not systematically address ableism—came together to propose a disability justice ...