Good Friends
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Jacqueline BrennanTo arresting officers:“Leave me alone. I fish here! I live here!”Billy Frank, Jr., 14 years old, 1945Presidential…
A Conversation with Eric Nee
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Claire WellingtonMore than 50 years after President Johnson began the “War on Poverty” the scourges of poverty and…
Q&A with U.S. Representative Kevin Brady
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Sally SchaefferQ: Chairman Brady, Many people from different walks of life from large businesses to small nonprofits celebrated…
The Strong People
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Stephen SuageeSince 2011, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (Lower Elwha) on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula has been deeply involved…
Art and the Path of Transformation
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Karen Altree Piemme Karen Altree Piemme. Artistic Director, Red Ladder Theatre Company, San José, California.My company, Red Ladder…
A Laboratory for the Real World
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Candy HillA chance meeting. A bold vision. United in mission. Motivated by faith.Over coffee at the Morris Inn…
Connecting Advocacy to Local Impact
By Independent Sector in Blog on“Two years ago, my family was in jeopardy of becoming homeless due to job loss until we received the…
Lead Poisoning: Preventable & Irreversible
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Rose King"Flint's water crisis is not going to define us as a community," said Mott Foundation President Ridgway…
Down at Bean’s Café
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Lisa Sauder and Rose King Former staff member, Staci Feger-Pellessier hugs long-time client, Art Ivanoff, offering a little encouragement.…
Philanthropy & ‘The Circumstances of…Injustice”
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Susan Drake SwiftOn December 17, 2015, the New York Times ran an opinion piece by contributing op-ed editor,…
Looking Back: Before the Bargain Was Struck
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Susan Drake Swift"What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems."—John W. Gardner, 1965At…
Making the Case for Coral
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Jacqueline BrennanThe past year was an especially grim one for the U.S. coral stronghold that is coastal FloridaGlobal…
A Day in the Life of the Actors Fund
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Jacqueline Brennan(Through the Eyes of Barbara Davis) Barbara Davis, Chief Operating Officer The Actors Fund (New York, NY)The rallying…
Partnerships for 2016: Figure Out a Way to Get an Early Win
By Independent Sector in Blog onInterview by Rose KingIn pursuit of partnerships that work and wisdom as to why, ISQ caught up with Antony…
Partnerships for 2016: We Need Others to Go Further
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Danielle MaxwellChandini Portteus was chief mission officer at Susan G. Komen for the Cure for a decade before…
The Philanthropy Caucus
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Sally SchaefferInside the building named for Texas’ Sam Rayburn, down the long hallways of polished floors and state…
Rep. Debbie Dingell: ‘It’s Critical to Have a Tax Code That Provides Certainty’
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Geoff Plague and Kristina Gawrgy CampbellAs she nears the end of her first year in Congress, U.S. Representative…
Global Hunger: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
By Independent Sector in Blog onIdeology and famine have too often gone hand in hand. In the 1960s, as many as 43 million people…
NGen Dialogue
By Independent Sector in Blog onInterview by Pickett Slater HarringtonIt was the opening plenary of the 2015 Independent Sector Conference.Over 1,000 nonprofit and philanthropic…
The “Necessary Challenge”: Innovation in the Social Sector
By Independent Sector in Blog onBy Clayton LordWhat is “innovation,” really? Angela Garcia of Global LinksFor Angela Garcia, deputy director of a Pittsburgh-based medical…
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