New Structures in Nonprofits: Serving the Public Good?

It wasn’t that long ago that the Philadelphia legal community came up with another creative solution to preserve an historic way of doing things and an important service to the region—The Philadelphia Inquirer.  To ensure this for-profit company’s continued ability to provide news to the region, Gerry Lenfest, then the sole owner of Philadelphia Media Network (owners of The Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com), created the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media (aka Lenfest Institute) at the Philadelphia Foundation.

The idea, however, is not that Read more