As the summer of 2021 opened, there were broad hopes of the pandemic coming under control and the American workplace returning to at least some sense of normal.
None of that unfolded as expected. One of the particular oddities was…

Our colleague and friend, Professor Brian Mittendorf, Ph.D, CPA, has important thoughts and cautionary advice on the widespread use by nonprofits of the “100 Percent Promise.”
What exactly is that? It’s the representation connected with fundraising appeals that all money…

“The IRS is not the only sheriff in town,” wrote Notre Dame law professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer in 2016. “Especially for charities, state regulators have the authority and willingness to pursue wrongdoing.”
In The Rising of the States in Nonprofit …

In the United States, it’s no exaggeration to say that a new campaign season begins the morning after the polls have closed on the last one.
For the nation’s 501(c)(3) organizations, that means steering clear of the Johnson Amendment from…

We’re at a crossroads, many philanthropy thought leaders point out.
Society’s challenges are deep and urgent. There are existential choices: not way off in the future but right now.
Philanthropy’s traditional role in shaping “how the nation’s organizations address the…

For over a year, we’ve reported on the unprecedented phenomenon of money falling out of the sky and landing on the nation’s nonprofits.
These downpours of dollars have come from several distinct “cloudbursts”:
Federal:
The key source has been the…