Politics

We have just gone through a long, controversial, historic, passionate election cycle in the U.S. People continue to take to the streets to protest. The election continues to be a topic of robust conversation that should make Thanksgiving dinners around the country a bit more interesting this year. Matt Hugg, of Hugg Dot Net LLC, wrote…

Could the Clinton Foundation's prodigious fundraising ability suffer a similar fate as Hillary Clinton's dashed political ambitions? During her bid for the White House, the nonprofit bearing the names of Clinton, the former president and their daughter came under withering scrutiny for its fundraising and management practices. The foundation, which operates a range of philanthropic…

The Nov. 8 elections produced some distinct surprises, while also continuing numerous trends seen in recent years across the states. Early pronouncements from incoming and re-elected office-holders suggest that policy decisions will be not only top-down from the federal government, but also bottom-up from localities and spread horizontally from one state to others. Actions by…

Planned Parenthood has received 20,000 donations made in the name of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and thousands of dollars in donations to the group's Indiana organization were made in his "honor" since last week's election, the groups said. At least 20,000 of more than 128,000 donations Planned Parenthood received since the election made reference to…

On Monday, Pamela Ramsey Taylor, director of West Virginia nonprofit agency Clay County Development, was removed from her job for posting a racist message on her Facebook page targeting first lady Michelle Obama. "It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House," the post read, according to local news station WSAZ…

Whoa! What happened last week? For many nonprofit professionals who work toward a country that is kind, respectful and inclusive, the U.S. presidential election was nothing short of devastating. But we need to get to work. Crisis represents opportunity. Here are four things we can do...

Planned Parenthood is reporting a spike in donations and demand for long-acting contraceptives since Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, while abortion foes hope to gain momentum in their quest to cut public funding to the women’s health organization. Officials with Planned Parenthood said its patrons are worried about the impact of a Trump presidency…

If there’s one sure takeaway from the 2016 election, it’s that non-college-educated whites are furious at America’s cosmopolitan elite. And well they should be—the white working class has been decimated over the past few decades by economic shifts that elites of all stripes have either actively abetted or barely lifted a finger to challenge. Foundations…

ProPublica doesn’t do partisanship. “We picked on the current administration and briefly on the one before that,” said ProPublica president Richard J. Tofel. “We’ll certainly pick on the next one.” The organization’s self-description says it “shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to…

Tuesday marked a historic election day. How will it impact those of us in the nonprofit sector and the issues we care so deeply about? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." This idea has kept me going through this seemingly never-ending…