Is the way we are currently using the capital available to us working during a period of declining social spending and greater inequality? Gar Alperovitz poses another way that might more effectively enhance community wellbeing.

Cohen warns that many community capital ventures, such as CDCs would not be possible without the federal support that was hard won with national advocacy.

For three years now, the Nonprofit Quarterly has charted the progress and response of five nonprofits as they have creatively confronted shifts in the environment. A little over a year since our last update, each of these organizations has something to teach the rest of us.

We asked some well-known fundraising advisors help us identify groups doing a good job with grassroots fundraising. We didn’t want fancy but we did want effective.

Mid-Iowa Community Action’s (MICA) work with the boards of community action agencies provides readers with a valuable perspective on the systemic problems faced by boards that lead to ineffectiveness and, perhaps, crisis.

What do you do when you discover you’ve been embezzled? Erickson recounts her organization’s experience and how it made the best of a terrible situation. NPQ reprints this instructive article from the Grassroots Fundraising Journal.

A new source of data allows us to examine the relationship between voluntary activity and citizen engagement.

After many years in nonprofits and foundations, I thought I knew almost every aspect of how modern fundraising works. That was before September when I found out that my favorite aunt, Great Aunt Alma, was seduced by a handsome, slick-talking development officer from Mammon University.