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A royal governance screw-up shows what nonprofits could learn from CEO pay.

Can the new film ‘Uncharitable’ change people’s minds about overhead at nonprofits?

NEW YORK -- All Hands and Hearts makes a promise in big letters on the front page of its website: “95 cents of every dollar is spent on our programs.”The Massachusetts-based disaster relief nonprofit, like so many charitable organizations have for decades, feels the pressure to operate as leanly as possible. Izzy Smith, chief information officer for All Hands and Hearts, which mobilizes volunteers to respond to natural disasters, called it an “enduring challenge for nonprofits” to explain to donors and the public about the need to invest in operations and shared services. "Financial instability as a nonprofit actually reduces our effectiveness and efficiency,” Smith said.A new documentary “Uncharitable,” from “Paris Trout” and “Losing Isaiah” director Stephen Gyllenhaal, wants to change t...

How a New Approach to Public Defense Is Overcoming Mass Incarceration

June 15th should have been one of the best days of Mohammed Sanogo’s life. An honors student with a perfect G.P.A., he had just walked across the stage at his high-school graduation, in Delaware, and was looking forward to attending the University of Maryland Honors College to study aerospace engineering. Before he left the parking lot at the University of Delaware, where the ceremony was held, Sanogo, a Muslim, stopped to pray with a few friends. For reasons that are in dispute, a few minutes later, as Sanogo was driving away, campus police stopped his vehicle, demanded that he get out of the car, and, after he did, picked him up and threw him to the ground. Video shot by students at the scene shows officers kneeling on his back to cuff him, as Sanogo struggles to get out of their grip a...