While there was a teacher shortage before 2020, the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic and ever-increasing work demands created a perfect storm. Many teachers reached a breaking point due to unparalleled physical…
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Should the Supreme Court strike down Roe v. Wade, 26 states are set to ban abortion, according to a 2021 analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan reproductive health research group. Exactly half…
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With most foundations, the board of directors and top executives set all funding priorities. Nonprofits seeking money from those funders, in turn, must demonstrate an intention to do work that…
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With rising job vacancies and a workforce and society that are aging, the United States already has a reservoir of human capital that is not fully tapped: The millions of…
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Click here for more.As we reach the time when many grantees have submitted final grant reports for the previous year’s efforts, what better time to reflect and elaborate on the problems with grantee…
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On any given day, you won’t need to read or watch the news for long before coming across an article or story about immigration in the U.S. It’s one of…
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Marginalized individuals and practitioners bring the vital lens of their lived experiences to the field when it comes to leveraging technology for the common good and solving complex problems that…
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From monetary donations to in-kind gifts, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sponsors provide critical sources of funding and cross-marketing for countless nonprofits, making them a cornerstone of the nonprofit world. However,…
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In 2020 (the most recent year for which data is available), grants made from DAFs to operating nonprofits were more than double what they were just four years earlier. But…
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After decades of declining unionization rates and rising income inequality in the United States, the past few years have seen glimmers of the vibrancy of the U.S. labor movement in…
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We often talk about the disturbingly high numbers of people with mental health disorders locked up in prisons and jails. But less attention is paid to the ways in which incarceration itself…
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Every DAF has a sponsoring organization that manages it. There are many, and they range from large financial institutions such as Fidelity and Schwab to more narrowly focused entities such…