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NEDRA Industry News Blog

Welcome to NEDRA's Industry News blog, where we feature news articles and other items of interest to the research community, curated by the NEDRA News Editor-In-Chief. We hope these selections will be of interest to you - and encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!

NOTE: Please note that any content or opinions expressed within this page represent the opinions and viewpoint of the original author, and do not necessarily reflect or represent the opinions, endorsement, or viewpoint of NEDRA.


  • Global University Rankings: the New Olympic Sport?

    Wed, October 24, 2012 4:16 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The main global rankings of universities have been published recently and with them, the predictable news headlines. However, over the years, the headlines have taken on a more geopolitical edge...

    http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/global-university-rankings-the-new-olympic-sport/30602

  • Some Donors Turn Backs on Lance Armstrong Foundation

    Wed, October 24, 2012 4:15 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Some contributors to the Lance Armstrong Foundation are saying they want their money back in the wake of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s damaging report on the former cycling champion’s alleged cheating, CNN and the Los Angeles Times write.

    http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/some-donors-turn-backs-on-lance-armstrong-foundation/56204

  • $1.5 Million Raised to Support Nonprofit Organizations by Pro Bono Partnership

    Fri, October 19, 2012 4:41 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Last night in Manhattan, the Pro Bono Partnership announced to a sold-out crowd of 800 corporate and legal leaders attending its 15th anniversary gala that it had raised $1.5 million to support free business legal assistance to hundreds of nonprofit organizations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

    www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/18/15-million-raised-to-support-nonprofit-organizatio/

  • PODCAST: The Super Rich

    Fri, October 19, 2012 4:40 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The rise of the super-rich and how it’s re-ordering not just the U.S. economy, but the whole world’s.

    http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/10/18/the-super-rich

  • Look To Nonprofit Sector To Create Jobs

    Fri, October 19, 2012 4:39 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    As both President Obama and Mitt Romney make the case for creating jobs, they are ignoring one of the fastest-growing job creators in our economy: the nonprofit sector.

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/opinion/schmitz-nonprofit-jobs/index.html

  • American Companies That Give Back The Most, 2012

    Fri, October 19, 2012 4:38 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Which of America’s big companies are the most philanthropic?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/10/19/american-companies-that-give-back-the-most-2012/

  • Manhattan's Now Home To America's Most Expensive Zip Code

    Thu, October 18, 2012 2:20 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    We compiled our list with the help of Altos Research, a Mountainv View, Calif.-based company that tracks housing data. It pulled pricing information for more than 22,000 ZIP codes across the U.S. for June 28 to Sept. 28, drilling down to the 500 most expensive.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/10/16/americas-most-expensive-zip-codes-2/

  • Report Eyes Losses in Nonprofit/For-Profit Theater Collaborations

    Wed, October 17, 2012 8:55 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    A new report entitled “In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector” has been released by the Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College and it provides a fascinating examination of the losses that many perceive to have flowed from an often close collaboration between commercial and nonprofit theater.

    www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/21185-report-eyes-losses-in-nonprofitfor-profit-theater-collaborations.html

  • Introducing the Boardroom Progressives

    Wed, October 17, 2012 8:53 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    An education reform "movement" is underway. There is a common understanding of the who... and what...of this movement. But how have these individuals and ideas come together?

    http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2012/10/introducing_the_boardroom_progressives.html

  • Emergence Of A New Movement

    Wed, October 17, 2012 8:51 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    With few tax incentives and a tradition in many countries of social services being delivered by government and the church, the philanthropic sector in much of Latin America is a poor relation to its counterparts elsewhere. However, when it comes to social entrepreneurship and innovative market-based solutions to poverty and environmental problems, the region is fast becoming a leader.

    www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/92741a7a-139a-11e2-9cc7-00144feabdc0.html

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