The executive director of a national coalition of child-care centers weighs in on the roller coaster of public funding.

Kathleen Enright of GEO urges funders to get involved in public policy at the state level.

Immigration policy is a human-rights and community-building issue that nonprofits cannot afford to ignore.

State immigration laws can help or hinder new immigrants from fully contributing to their communities.

Fast-growing credit unions have helped immigrant populations develop a new approach to their financial futures

As immigrant populations grow but remain marginalized, how can nonprofits build a more perfect union?

Among the lessons of the 2008 presidential election was the importance of immigrant youth groups in fueling civic engagement.

Undocumented immigrant children raised in the United States face innumerable barriers to success. Will new immigration policy help these immigrants realize their dreams?

The Four Freedoms Fund has mined the power of a collaboration-based approach to philanthropy.

Does the process of “becoming American” threaten immigrant success?

If you are an advocate for social and economic justice, you should care about immigrants’ rights.

Nonprofits have an aversion to using bankruptcy as a tool, but they shouldn’t.

According to some observers, “the world is flat,” and the traditional functions of leadership are on the decline. And in connected environments such as networks, the function of leadership is anything but traditional.  Bill Traynor offers insights from his experience, having grappled with finding a way to lead when many of the traditional levers of power and decision making were neither handy nor useful.

Given the tumultuous environment for nonprofits, establishing a leadership agenda is more essential than ever.

This article, from the highly regarded Center for Victims of Torture, describes in some detail this diagnostic tool they developed for local organizers to understand and influence the complex political systems that support or tolerate torture. The mapping process is transferable to other complex political issues.

A summary of the articles in this issue.

A nonprofit leader challenges philanthropists’ comfortable assumptions.