Articles by Sid Davis
Plenty of news has emanated lately from the nexus of government and the nonprofit sector. In recent months GrantStation has discussed President Joe Biden's For the People Act and its effect on…
In early March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the For the People Act—also known as H.R.1—by a ten-vote margin largely along party lines, with all congressional Democrats save one voting…
In recent years the nonprofit sector has experienced a much-noted increase in workforce unionizations. This drive toward collective representation parallels those that have been taking place at…
Humanity's relationship to technology has been a burning existential issue ever since the invention of machinery. The typewriter was once excoriated by social observers for replacing the human…
Most of us tend to think of nonprofits as pulling in the same direction. The missions of certain nature or economic empowerment or childcare nonprofits generally don't conflict with the missions…
Coming from humble beginnings often prefaces the stories of highly successful people, but few rags to riches tales begin in more meager circumstances than those of Sarah Breedlove.
Last month, the nonprofit realm was greeted by the surprising news that the state of New York had filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, seeking the dissolution in its entirety of…
When the Internal Revenue Service returns to full operations on July 15, one item on its agenda will be a new slate of more than 1,000 audits of private foundations connected to high net worth…
The United States has an unusual system among high-income countries of a limited social safety net combined with tax policy that is supposed to, in theory, encourage high volumes of charitable…
The COVID-19 pandemic has in a short span of time sent our world into flux. Nobody knows what its final shape will be, but with social contact limited, events have been cancelled, spending…
Local newspapers across the United States have fallen on economic hard times, as the more than century-old print advertising and circulation business model has been superseded by a digital model…
With a new decade comes the natural tendency to ponder the future. What does it hold? What will the nonprofit landscape look like in the years ahead? Below is some relevant data which I've put in…