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Innovative public sector policies and programs

 
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Education

In Defense of Public Education

The discretionary spending bucket is the easiest place for conservatives and liberals to find a palliative for the nation's maxed-out deficit headache.

By Heather Clayton Staker | Aug. 30, 2011
 
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Nonprofits

If We Could Build the Nonprofit Sector from Scratch, What Would It Look Like?

Last year I had the opportunity of working with an NGO effort in Trinidad and Tobago to launch an organization that would build the capacity of NGOs.

By John Brothers | 11 | Aug. 29, 2011
 
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Civil Society

Yearning to Breathe Free: No Immigration Reform Hurts Opportunity for All

The anti-immigrant trend line is deeply damaging to social innovation, social justice, and civil society.

By Eric Friedenwald-Fishman | 3 | Aug. 24, 2011
 
Deirdre White is president and CEO at the nonprofit CDC Development Solutions (CDS).

Health

How Can Business and Government Work Together to Save a Life?

A cross sector-partnership between IBM and the Cross River government is saving lives of mothers and children across Nigeria.

By Deirdre White | Aug. 12, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Kelly Kleiman, who blogs as The Nonprofiteer, is principal of NFP Consulting.

Government

Wisconsin Says No to Money for Nonprofits

Governor Walker's ideology requires that people who need assistance seek private charity and that private charity be deprived of the means of assisting them.

By Kelly Kleiman | 3 | Aug. 10, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Robert Penna had a 20-year career as a senior staffer with the New York State Senate and as a political consultant. He was affiliated with the Rensselaerville Institute for a decade, serves as Charity Navigator’s international coordinator,

Nonprofit Management

Cuomo Orders Review of Nonprofit Compensation

What needs to be under public scrutiny is the entire range of unfettered discretion in spending that some nonprofit executives—and their boards—exercise.

By Robert Penna | 2 | Aug. 5, 2011
 
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Civil Society

Taking Exception to Exceptionalism

We need to shift the narrative to include the link between exceptional solutions and the systems change and scale needed to deliver a just baseline.

By Eric Friedenwald-Fishman | 4 | Jul. 26, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Kelly Kleiman, who blogs as The Nonprofiteer, is principal of NFP Consulting.

Fundraising

Charity Begins at Home—and That Means Taxes

The nonprofit sector has become infected with the shortsighted, quarter-to-quarter thinking that addles Wall Street.

By Kelly Kleiman | 1 | Jul. 13, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Sean Stannard-Stockton is CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors. Strategic Philanthropy

Government

Large Foundations Dropping the Ball on Government Programs

The Pay For Success program and Social Innovation Fund are examples of the government turning to philanthropy for help selecting the effective programs.

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Jun. 21, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Kelly Kleiman, who blogs as The Nonprofiteer, is principal of NFP Consulting.

Government

Eliminating the Charitable Deduction: The End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel Fine

Wouldn’t we advance the goals of nonprofit hospitals and schools, and environmental and arts organizations if the government had more to spend on them?

By Kelly Kleiman | 4 | May. 25, 2011