Tag: Nonprofits
How to get more Americans to volunteer
Rebecca Nesbit, University of Georgia and Robert Christensen, Brigham Young University
Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century Frenchman fascinated by U.S. life, praised what he saw...
Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there’s no freedom from speech
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on...
When do-good nonprofits are bad at dealing with #MeToo moments
Paul Battaglio, University of Texas at Dallas; Doug Goodman, University of Texas at Dallas, and Meghna Sabharwal, University of Texas at Dallas
Scandals rocking the...
When charities let telemarketers gouge donors
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine recently called Ohio Cops for Kids a “purported charity” when he sued the group...
Some new nonprofits take off, others flop – and nobody knows...
Fredrik O. Andersson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Wayne Gretzky’s observation that you will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take holds true...
Learning by giving: How today’s students can become tomorrow’s philanthropists
Jodi Benenson, University of Nebraska Omaha; David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University Newark
If someone asked...
How donors can help make nonprofits more accountable
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington and Nives Dolsak, University of Washington
As the devastating 2017 hurricane season got underway, the Internal Revenue Service warned Americans...
Let them eat caviar: When charity galas waste money
Philip Hackney, Louisiana State University and Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
When the Arc of Palm Beach County rented Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
