Ever helpful when not being painfully hip, the folks at New York magazine last week chatted up Laurie Styron, an analyst at the American Institute of Philanthropy, for some tips to help New Yorkers find charities that get the most bang for their buck. Her advice: See the Institute’s list of top-rated charities and avoid […]
A few years back, the nonprofit where I worked, spurred by a savvy marketing communications guy who was trying to drag the organization kicking and screaming into the 21st century, engaged in the painful of process of developing a tagline. More than a few members of the internal community thought the initiative a shallow, unseemly […]
Convince me, wrote Kate Baggott, the author of the Babylune blog, of the effectiveness and importance of your favorite charity, cause, or helpful organization, and I’ll donate to it in your name.
Capital idea, I wrote back, then set to the daunting task of determining which of the causes with which I’m familiar meet those criteria.
I […]
Corporate malfeasance may have been the impetus for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, but the nonprofit community was paying attention, too. According to Grant Thornton LLP’s fifth annual National Board Governance Survey for Not-for-Profit Organizations, 87 percent of nonprofits have implemented new governance policies, up from 20 percent just four years ago.
Some notable board […]
If you can’t get into nonprofits this month, you can’t get into them, period. Between stories about charitable giving at the holidays and reminders from your favorite charity to make your gift before the end of the year so that you get the ‘07 tax write-off, December is the most visible month for giving. In […]
The American way is to root hard for the underdog unless and until it triumphs and becomes so successful that it takes the fun away from everyone else trying to do what it does. (See Microsoft and Red Sox, Boston.) I keep waiting for Google to cross that threshold, but it hasn’t happened yet, and […]
Can a nonprofit do for national and political news what Digg has done for business and technology news? NewsTrust.net’s tagline is “Your guide to good journalism,” and while it claims no designs on supplanting the likes of Digg in the realm of populist news and commentary reviews, it’s gaining some nice attention. That would include […]
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