Tag: Nonprofits
Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University and Sara Rankin, Seattle University
Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless.
By severely restricting or even barring the...
Spotting the political calculus behind some acts of corporate charity
Raymond Fisman, Boston University
Over the past few years, I have teamed up with fellow economists Marianne Bertrande, Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi to look...
What is March Madness – and the nonprofit that manages the...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The annual college basketball spectacle known as March Madness has arrived.
Millions of people will tune in to...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
