Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise and Its Discontents
A new study reports that nonprofit agencies that choose to support themselves with for-profit businesses end up serving their clients less and worse.
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Urban Development
Transforming Cities
Archaic ideas and the fundamental restructuring taking place in our economy, makes business as usual unacceptable.
Philanthropy
Citizens United and New Rules for Nonprofits
The most important issue for the social sector in the United States in 2011 will be the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Individual Giving
Whether Women Are More Generous Than Men, and Whether It Matters
A recent study shows that at all income levels women give more than men—both more frequently and more generously when controlled for income.
Review
Government
Put the People to Work
SERVING COUNTRY AND COMMUNITY: Who Benefits from National Service? by Peter Frumkin & Joann Jastrzab
Intermediaries
Philanthropedia Launches Expertise on Demand
Philanthropedia offered low-cost, high-quality information and a way for grantmakers to share what they know.
Civil Society
What Civil Society Needs
Without a healthy civil society it becomes difficult if not impossible to solve other, more readily apparent problems.
Foundations
Deviant Philanthropy
It is well worth our time to explore the potential of deviant ideas to positively impact the practices of our field.
Corporate Philanthropy
Collaborating To Achieve Scaled Impact
How we facilitate collaboration influences breakthroughs in innovation and scale.