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Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The nonprofit world is intellectually moribund. While many scholars publish books and articles about philanthropy, most are irrelevant to what is actually going on. What's more, few [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Across the United States, chief executives at some corporations have been taking salary cuts in response to public pressure and the economic downturn that so many of [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The downturn in the economy and the budget troubles of nonprofit groups have made it painfully clear that many of the problems that have long plagued the [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Barack Obama got his start working on the front lines as a community organizer for local nonprofit groups, and he touted the importance of volunteerism and civic [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg While taxpayers, investors, homeowners, consumers, and working people are suffering from the near collapse of the financial system, foundations seem unwilling to play their part in maintaining [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg In the grand scheme of foundation and nonprofit scandals over the past decade, the embezzlement of almost $1-million at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Robert S. Riggs, an intrepid reporter for the CBS affiliate station in Dallas, ruffled a lot of feathers among Dallas's social and financial elite with his investigative [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg In recent years, Sen. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, has used his role as a leading member of the Senate Finance Committee to serve as the conscience [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg For many years the Public Welfare Foundation has enjoyed a distinguished, well-deserved reputation as an innovative and risk-taking foundation that has supported new ideas and helped grass-roots [...]

Four months after Lawrence Small, secretary of the Smithsonian, resigned in disgrace, nothing much seems to have changed at the institution, despite last month's release of two reports that were [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Lawrence Small's compensation as head of the Smithsonian Institution and his inappropriate spending of the organization's money on personal items are only a part of the scandalous [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Wanted: a Rolls-Royce at Ford. The search for a new president of the Ford Foundation is under way, stimulating discussions of possible new directions and priorities for [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg As the Council on Foundations' new president, Steve Gunderson, and its board of directors move to revitalize the organization, they will need to set a moral tone [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Last fall Independent Sector, a coalition of more than 500 charities and foundations, assembled a committee of 24 nonprofit leaders to recommend to the Senate Finance Committee [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg For years, the Council on Foundations has failed to provide any serious leadership to the foundation world, preferring instead to pander to the narrow self-interest of the [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Nonprofit organizations and foundations suffer from a critical lack of leadership. The top executives of too many organizations lack vision, courage, a collaborative instinct, and intellectual rigor. [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The business culture that began sweeping the nonprofit world two decades ago has sunk its roots dangerously deep. Fueled by cuts in government funds, a desperation for [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Recent news-media coverage of foundation excesses and scandals -- including high trustee fees, conflicts of interest, sweetheart financial deals, and inappropriate expenditures -- have raised serious concerns [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Douglas McCandlish Lawson, associate director of national programs at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the foundation inspired by Monsignor Geno Baroni and sponsored by the U.S. [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The shadow of William Aramony still looms over the nonprofit world. Mr. Aramony, the former president of United Way of America, the umbrella group for roughly 1,400 [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The foundation world has long been a backwater of lazy thinking, uncritical attitudes, self-satisfaction, and backslapping. In recent months, a few top foundation executives have written thoughtful [...]