If we are prepared and play our cards right, we may have a window of opportunity to build new election systems that reflect Americans’ choices.

On June 12, 2026, multiple legal aid organizations that assist unaccompanied migrant children were visited by agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the US Department of Health and ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news that the government of the country in which you live has collapsed. I don’t mean a violent revolution, a coup, a total breakdown of the state, or a ...

The Myth of Heroic Leadership interrogates the nonprofit sector’s reliance on “heroic” executive leadership as a structural failure disguised as virtue. It challenges the deeply embedded belief that ...

The United States has never fully embraced the humanity, dignity, or liberation of disabled people, but our community’s wisdom and brilliance have shaped the best of this country from the beginning.

Across the country, conversations are growing about what a healthy democracy requires and how to build it. Is it through elections or protests? Is it town halls? Co-governance argues that the real ...

‘Whose Movement Is It?‘, a series co-produced by NPQ and the Environmental Justice Oral History Project, is a call to action for those at the forefront of environmental justice decision-making, ...

When US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began raiding communities with intensified brutality, something remarkable happened: networks of care materialized, some almost overnight.

Across 2026, this “America 250” anniversary year, official commemorations have presented the United States as a finished achievement: a nation steadily advancing toward freedom, racial equity, and ...

“Nonprofits and NGOs are adopting (generative) artificial intelligence technologies faster than they’re designing governance and training for their teams.” Thus begins the 2026 State of Nonprofit AI: ...

Image Credit: Matheus Bertelli on Pexels. SF Camerawork, a gallery supporting experimental photographers, unconventional techniques, and sociopolitical themes, announced on Aug. 10 that it was closing ...

Joe Goldman is president of Democracy Fund, a foundation working to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy that ensures freedom, dignity, justice, and well-being for all Americans.