“Democracy is not a spectator sport”

“It’s time for us to realize that democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Sam Daley-Harris, founder of RESULTS
What kind of day was it that turned on 18 diverse nonprofit leaders from Montana? Lit a fresh fire in the heart of a missionary reverend from Connecticut? Created bright eyes and smiles on the faces of young women [...]

Ethics and Nonprofits: the bad and the good news

The Ethics Research Center’s newly released “National Nonprofit Ethics Survey” (free downloads) should definitely receive its share of attention from the nonprofit sector given the substantial focus that we have had on nonprofit accountability and transparency in recent years. The study is a longitudinal research effort that has involved 1,418 nonprofit staff since 2000 [...]

Is there a nonprofit workforce crisis?

This was the theme of the recent Sounding taken by the Listening Post Project (LPP) of the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University. The LPP is an “information platform” for the nonprofit sector created by the Center in collaboration with leading nonprofit umbrella groups to spot developing challenges to American nonprofits and [...]