As legalized marijuana takes root in the state of Washington, it brings along a crop of unusual quandaries to solve.

The writings of observers like Dan Pallotta suggest that nonprofits shy away from investing in advertising because of pressures to limit their overhead. Ohio State University accounting professor Brian Mittendorf looks at the numbers and finds that nonprofits don’t seem to underinvest in advertising, overhead concerns or not. 

As the U.K. deals with the inability of many young people to afford homeownership, does the plan of the G15 social housing coalition suggest a solution to London’s “Generation Rent” problem?

On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high level, but former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich says four key points prevent most Americans from sharing in that recovery.

Ellen DeGeneres injects humor into the situation regarding the Boy Scouts of America’s inability to come to a quick decision on whether or not to allow openly gay scouts.

Three nonprofit public media organizations in Colorado—Rocky Mountain PBS, KUVO radio and the investigative I-News project—announce that they will become one.

Yesterday, in an article titled “Firing your Development Director? Join the Club!,” I reported on a study that CompassPoint has published about the much maligned position of development director.

There are many mobile apps that can benefit your nonprofit organization without a large outlay of cash or a great deal of organization-wide planning.

After annual losses and a temporary closing, a Menlo Park, Calif. independent bookstore has reopened with a renewed commitment to its community and a new nonprofit housed in its building.

“The future ain’t what it used to be,” Yogi Berra once said. That seems to be true for the nonprofit sector, based on the predictions for 2013 we’ve received from smart people in and around the Nonprofit Quarterly orbit.

A recent report from C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky surveys the current landscape and future scenarios for journalism and, within this frame, nonprofit journalism.

Now that Election Day has come and gone, we can all exhale, look each other in the eyes, shake hands, and ask, “Are we completely insane when it comes to elections or what?”

Economist and Institute for Women’s Policy Research President Heidi Hartmann says that eliminating the pay disparity between genders would help the U.S. economy.

An Albany, Ore.-area nonprofit’s name changes raises some interesting questions about nonprofit naming strategies in the age of the Google search.

Nonprofits are experts at squeezing every last value out of an asset, but when it comes to old computer hardware, such frugality may cost the organization more than meets the eye.

Text messaging is one of the most widespread and popular forms of digital communication, yet many nonprofits aren’t seizing this tool to connect to constituents.

In an editorial for the Times Leader, Patricia Mogan of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations, finds a few lessons for nonprofit boards in the Freeh Report.

The Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) attempt to self-police its ranks for sexual molesters has failed, and many chapters reportedly did not respond to allegations in an appropriate way.

Today, the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) will meet in San Francisco. We’d like to hear from some of those in attendance as to what is being discussed.

Michael Edwards’ Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World is a critical response to philanthrocapitalism and a must-read for anyone working in the nonprofit sector.

Is social media harming our society’s ability to nurture community? Communicating is different than true connection via human relationships. Let’s think about being human.

A coalition of 21 Hispanic organizations endorse a national campaign for acceptance of LGBT family members.

Agnes Gund has issued some challenges to leaders and fundraisers in arts organizations, many of whom—in her opinion—are not keeping up with changes in the larger society.

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) has introduced a bill that “incinerates the whistleblower protections” of the Dodd-Frank Act, according to the Project on Government Oversight.

State fairs run by government agencies and nonprofits are facing budget troubles, and for-profit investors are stepping in—but will they change the culture of the state fair in the process?

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about openness. There is perhaps nothing that can be more destructive to an organization than a culture of secrecy. 

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