But celebration—without repair—rings hollow. We believe that reparations are what justice looks like in the 21st century. As lawyers for the movement, we will defend these programs, not because ...

Whitney Shepard is Co-Executive Director of Majority Action. Her work is shaped by a background in community organizing, campaign strategy, and applied research, and by a belief that systems change ...

Even as overall dollars raised by US nonprofits increased last year, the number of giving donors dropped for the fourth year in a row, marking a worrying trend in grassroots fundraising, according to ...

“Nonprofits and NGOs are adopting (generative) artificial intelligence technologies faster than they’re designing governance and training for their teams.” Thus begins the 2026 State of Nonprofit AI: ...

In recent years, many of the rights and protections that women have fought to secure over the past half-century have come under sustained, coordinated attack. Gains once considered settled are being ...

How can philanthropy effectively support narratives of liberation? As people who traverse the interconnected areas of narrative and philanthropy, this question has been at the center of our work for ...

Editor’s Note: This article was republished with permission from Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC. On April 15, 2025, President Trump called for the revocation of Harvard University’s 501c3 tax-exempt status.

The need for America to build quickly and at scale has become a lively debate amongst pundits and policymakers alike, feeding the so-called “abundance” debate argument that decades of regulation and ...

Editors’ Note: NPQ is proud to highlight this important letter from GuideStar, Charity Navigator and the Wise Giving Alliance calling for an end to the obsession many have had with nonprofit overhead ...

Consider this familiar pattern, easily recognizable in cities around the United States today: A group of well-meaning urban planners, city leaders, conservationists, and businesses restore an urban ...

In emergency management and disaster response, a common refrain is “all disasters start and end locally.” In the first couple of hours or even days after a disaster hits, neighbors rescue neighbors, ...

This article from the fall 2020 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly is part of a series of works on the subject of environmental justice and Indigenous communities in the United States, curated by ...