Nonprofit Quarterly

Our Vision and Mission

Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) is an independent nonprofit media organization that equips nonprofit leaders, workers, and funders to gather insights, challenge dominant narratives, and drive change in the nonprofit sector and the systems that shape it.

Our journalism is bold, never passive. Contributors interrogate how power, race, and equity shape outcomes, and centering the practitioners, organizers, and movement leaders doing the work. We’re both a convener and a catalyst for shared sense making—a place where ideas get tested, tensions get surfaced, and insight becomes something you actually can use.

We exist for people who refuse to take the nonprofit sector at face value — and who know that improving organizations and transforming systems aren’t separable goals. We want you to feel less alone in the hard work, and more equipped to do it.

Our mission is to advance conversations and practice in civil society, as manifested in nonprofits, social movements, and philanthropy. We envision an active democracy grounded in racial equity, human rights, and economic justice, one built by a nonprofit sector that has the stories, the analysis, the solidarity, and the nerve to make it real.