In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a tip for boosting your romantic appeal. Yes, it’s true: nonprofits offer everyone the quickest path to bring sexy back!

What is an anti-charity system and why the heck would you ever want to try something that sounds like it was patented by Ebenezer Scrooge?

Houston’s new Original OKRA Charity Saloon offers alcoholic libations with profits going to charities selected by patrons, and similar bars are popping up elsewhere.

More health care centers are finding enticing tax credits and grants for redeveloping environmentally contaminated buildings, known as brownfields, for use as treatment facilities.

“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.

The latest “Giving in Numbers” report from the Conference Board and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy finds a rise in corporate giving in 2011 due to non-cash giving.

If we cut government spending on society’s needs, can we rely on charity to fill the gap?

NTEN’s recent study documenting the dynamics of donor engagement, though based on a small sample, is worth a look as you do your own fundraising this year.

The Movember Foundation has found a trendy way to raise awareness for prostate cancer and to influence men’s health that’s all about bringing back the moustache.

According to data from the Foundation Center, at a time when society needed foundations the most, they reduced their absolute grants payout.

Three shifts are redefining the fundamental role of nonprofits and philanthropy in our society. Are you ready?

Saras Chung worked hard to help get the social enterprise fashion project Nest on its feet, and found human capital and agility key to success.

The Wallace Foundation of New York, a practitioner of evidence based philanthropy, recently invited Bill Schambra of the Hudson Institute to challenge its own practices. Below are Schambra's comments reflecting that he is not a big fan of philanthropy overdesigning over-rational interventions for communities. Wallace president Will Miller responds. Where do you stand?

As NPQ notes the passing of 2011 and the beginnings of 2012, we want to note some trends that we think will span the two years and have profound implications for civil society, at least in the near future. These trends are overarching; they have to do with the relationship between people/communities and institutions such as government and corporations, and even nonprofits. They have to do with civil society—and with citizen (understood in its broadest sense) action. 

With great trepidation, the Cohen Report ventures forth with on-the-ledge predictions for 2012 concerning mostly the behaviors of and context for foundation grantmakers. We remind readers to take these ideas appropriately, remembering Albert Einstein's observation, "When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."