Nonprofit Organizations

As part of a public conversation on values-based leadership preceding the Institute's 23rd annual Summer Celebration Dinner, Howard and Sheri Schultz, this year's recipients of the Aspen Institute Public Service Award, took the stage to discuss the role of the Schultz Family Foundation. Here are highlights from the Schultzes' conversation with Walter Isaacson.

The members of the Nonprofit Data Project group work with government to improve the quality, timeliness, accessibility and efficiency of our nation’s nonprofit data collection system.

What's new with the Nonprofit Data Project?

Roles and Opportunities for Business in Nonprofit Capacity Building.

Nonprofit organizations play a vital role in building healthy communities by providing critical services that contribute to economic stability and mobility.

As part of their work to support advocacy strategy development and implementation, evaluators need to maintain a sophisticated understanding of current politics and how they affect the policy change process. Our theories of how policy change occurs need to account for how the political context has shifted over time.

Egger discusses the importance of nonprofit organizations, the challenges they face in serving the public good, and the type of leadership the social sector needs to fulfill its role in our society.

Highlights the Center for Employment Opportunities’ (CEO) transition from a "promising" to a "proven" organization, outlining its pathway to becoming a nationally recognized data-driven social service provider.

In announcing plans to publish knowledge gained in setting and evaluating strategy, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation president Larry Kramer not only signaled a new openness on the part of the foundation he leads, but embraced an expanded definition of a grant-maker'’s task.