If you have been following along since June, you know what happened. On June 26, 2026, the Trump administration terminated 53 Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants nationwide, including Wisconsin's $1.162 million award, with no warning and no transition period. You know that PATCH lost $130,000 overnight. And you know that the administration did not simply cut the program. It replaced it with something built on a fundamentally different set of values. If you need that backstory, you can find it...

On November 3, Wisconsin voters will see a question on their ballot that is easy to misread. It asks whether the state constitution should be amended to prohibit governmental entities from "discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin" in public employment, public education, public contracting, or public administration. Sounds reasonable. Maybe even familiar. Isn't discrimination already...

If you are on a nonprofit board right now having quiet conversations about winding things down, you are not alone, and you are not failing. Nonprofits close for all kinds of reasons: funding has shrunk to the point where audit fees and insurance premiums eat up money that should go to your community, the founder is ready to step back and no one wants to take on board and HR responsibilities, or the organization is simply too small to carry the compliance weight it was built to carry. Here is...