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Grassroots community organizations have made encouraging gains in revitalizing some of our nation's low-income neighborhoods. But to sustain their activities, they need more effective and comprehensive support from foundations, local government, and other nonprofit organizations., Despite great odds, low-income neighborhoods and communities in urban and depressed rural areas are beginning to show encouraging signs of revitalization. In large part, these signs of progress are due [...]

Regina Herzlinger's article 'Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?' published in the Mar-Apr 1996 issue of Harvard Business Review, received favorable responses from politicians, nonprofit executives, and university professors. Herzlinger proposed four steps for nonprofits to reform and regulate their programs: disclosure, analysis, dissemination, and sanctions. While all experts agreed for the need to install such a mechanism, some expressed doubt as to whether or not it would work.

AMERICA'S private and corporate foundations have given at least $130-million to nonprofit efforts to help the Gulf Coast region recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Indiana University's Center [...]

From the anguished cries, wringing hands, and self-pity generated by foundation officials during the past few weeks, it sounded like the end of the philanthropic world is at hand. At [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Foundations desperately need visionary and risk-taking leaders, but when they choose new people to run their organizations, they often forget about the talent they have in their [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The most recent attacks on Acorn, the largest low-income grass-roots network in the country with more than 400,000 members, have put the organization in grave danger. The [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama, as well as his advisers and followers, often touted the candidate's experience as a community organizer in Chicago. Now that he [...]

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 Progressives and liberals have always had a hard time holding their political leaders accountable when they reach the White House. The agency that oversees national service seems [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Maria Eitel's sudden decision to withdraw her name after President Obama nominated her to become head of the Corporation for National and Community Service came as a [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Presumptuous. Arrogant. Orwellian. Such epithets have been hurled at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy in response to its report, Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best. The [...]

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 A new report that documents the dollar benefits that advocacy groups provide to society should put to rest much of the anxiety that foundations have had about [...]

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 The notion of public service has swept the country. Young people everywhere are expressing a desire to serve other people and their country, and President Obama's strong [...]

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 As the nonprofit world prepares for the election of a new president, its leaders have been discussing ways to tighten the relationship between government and charities. Those [...]

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 Born in the crucible of poverty, racial discrimination, and worker injustice in the mountains of Tennessee, the Highlander Research and Education Center has stood as a beacon [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The Ford Motor Company used to broadcast television ads with the caption 'Ford has a better idea.' One of its better ideas included a redesign and subsequent [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg In the 1960s, I lived in New York City. One of the pleasures many of us experienced in those days was a visit to the New York [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The California State Senate is considering a bill that would require all foundations with more than $250-million in assets to disclose information about the race and gender [...]

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 The Smithsonian Institution's announcement that it has appointed G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, to lead the troubled complex of 19 museums and [...]

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 we've been told that Americans are the most-generous people in the world. President Ronald Reagan said so as he called for more philanthropic giving [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg Bill Clinton, the former president, would like to change the world for the better by using his enormous talentsand personality to persuade individuals, corporations, and governments to [...]

Byline: Pablo Eisenberg The sharp reduction in reporters and editors at the nation's major newspapers and the resulting decline in quality journalism over the past few years pose a major [...]

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 [...]