Sunday's Minneapolis Star Tribune featured the following front page article: Few Get A Path Out of Trouble. The article highlights the very different outcomes for two teens, one whose case goes through the traditional court system, and the other who goes through a restorative justice program. The article helps illustrate the difference restorative justice and related diversion programs can make in

Neighborhood organizations can play an important role in communication during crises. The Minneapolis City Council recently accepted the Hillard Heintze After-Incident report, an analysis of "City departments’ and assisting agencies’ responses to events occurring within the city directly following George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020 and through June 3, 2020" (page 5). The report found, among

NonProfit Quarterly reports that Congress is once again considering repeal of the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment was introduced bythen Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 The Johnson Amendment was introduced by then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954, and is important because it established the prohibition on 'political intervention' by charitable organizations. This rule has been

The very first question that should be asked by the Roadmap is "What are the unique services provided by neighborhood organizations to residents and the City?" There are many different ways to answer this question, for example, it would be easy to simply provide a list of programmatic services that neighborhood organizations provide--a sort of check list of neighborhood organizations activities. But