Nonprofit

In the past seven years, Eve Galanter has helped collect close to 4,700 pieces of business clothing – but you won’t see her on Hoarders, nor would anyone say that there’s anything pathological about her “hobby.” Full Story 

For someone who’s leading one of the most imaginative and innovative construction efforts in the state, Kate Stalker has seized on an unusual keynote, taken from a Walt Kelly comic strip character who preceded her ambitious project by a full 70 years. Full Story 

Throughout the decades, anti-crime efforts have often swung wildly between carrot and stick approaches – or what people of differing political stripes might characterize as either squishy liberal coddling or hard-nosed, hang-‘em-high discipline. A new approach being tested by the city of Madison perhaps bridges the gap between these extremes. More importantly, however, it’s an approach that’s been shown to succeed in an arena where solutions have often been in short supply. Full Story 

There’s a stark – even cruel – irony that anyone involved in the nonprofit sector must come to understand sooner or later: Namely, when times are tough, contributions to nonprofits tend to ebb, just as the rising tide of need begins to overwhelm them. Full Story