This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a first-in-the-nation move, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to develop new guidelines regarding reimbursement of administrative costs to nonprofits that are contracted to deliver services…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Pittsburgh 3rd Service Platoon is a new group of volunteers that are ready to mobilize Pittsburgh’s veteran population–asking them to help refugees living in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The holidays are the perfect opportunity to spend time participating in more philanthropic endeavors. You likely have time off of work and there are days you’re free to do more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Capital Impact Partners, a nonprofit loan fund and federally-certified community development financial institution, or CDFI, this week launched a $100 million fixed-income security that is available to retail investors for as little…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If Congress follows through on its plan to take up criminal-justice reform next year, legislators and advocates could wrestle once again with an obscure proposal that would reshape federal criminal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What you need to know about tiered-evidence grantmaking A grantmaking approach that uses a tiered-evidence design to focus funding on programs backed by rigorous evidence of effectiveness while investing some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although workable for decades, that old-fashioned approach in the US ultimately created an array of problems. Poor project selection is now legendary, as the “bridge to nowhere” and the 6,371…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When a Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst downgraded Chipotle stock–claiming the company spends too much to pay workers and that it would have trouble cutting labor costs–it was the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since our humble beginnings, we have always felt it necessary to give back to the community around us, not because of a sense of “corporate responsibility”, but because we truly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many individuals with low incomes struggle to obtain and maintain jobs that pay them enough to meet their needs and put them on a path to upward mobility. At the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Google diversity story needs a reframe. So let’s talk instead about building great businesses and investing to make companies stronger, more innovative and ultimately more profitable. The now infamous…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Department of Education officially revoked the Obama administration’s guidance on college sexual assault, offering interim guidelines on how universities should handle the issue. Democratic Senator Patty Murray said in a statement…