Although some Republicans label it "class warfare" or "the politics of envy," more Americans are joining with President Obama and the few other elected leaders who have begun to talk about the nation's profound economic inequality. But the topic isn't getting very much attention from charities, this in spite of...

A couple of decades ago, with the nonprofit sector approaching 5 percent of GDP, you didn't need a crystal ball to see that the market would eventually find ways to peel off some of the larger and more profitable parts of charitable activity. First it was nonprofit health care, with...

If one thing is clear from the tea party movement, it is that the power of democratic engagement can have a more profound impact on the causes that grantmaking foundations and charities care about than all of their prized innovations and scaled-up programs. Yet, too many foundations seem to think...

Many of the seemingly divergent problems facing us today have the same fundamental cause: greed.

In both government and corporations -- and even in the nonprofit sector -- the greed of some damages and diminishes all of us while also undermining those very institutions that are supposed to protect us...