There’s a great discussion happening over at Gift Hub about whether philanthropic leaders should blog. Blogger Phil Cubeta, a financial services exec who directs his company’s charitable efforts and who calls himself a “morals tutor to America’s wealthiest families,” offers 24 reasons, some of them serious, some of them not, against such public commentary, and […]
Yesterday wasn’t the best of days for Barack Obama. Not only did he fail to win the New Hampshire primary, but it was reported that Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center has spiked a screening of a documentary about the presidential candidate’s 2006 trip to Africa. The reason? The film center feared that showing the movie […]
Nonprofits are human endeavors, and as noble as are the intentions of those who found them and work for them, malfeasance will happen. Even within those confines, it’s still striking that a nonprofit that assesses the effectiveness of charities based on, among other criteria, their transparency would itself be stung by the willful obfuscation of […]
Robert Egger, the founder and president of the DC Central Kitchen, which trains the unemployed in the culinary arts, has been bird-dogging presidential candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire to get them to pledge, on camera, their support for nonprofits should they be elected. Naturally, they’re all saying yes. It’s a very noble effort, though […]
A persuasive piece in yesterday’s New York Times argued that because so many of their long-term goals, unlike those of the for-profit sector, are difficult to quantify, nonprofits should not be held accountable to the same standards as their corporate brethren. Columnist Denise Caruso detailed the backlash among nonprofits against the notion “that the return […]
Most nonprofits don’t pay property taxes to the municipalities in which they’re located, though they often negotiate so-called PILOTs — payments in lieu of taxes — to help defray the cost of municipal services they may consume. But keep an eye on Allegheny County in western Pennsylvania, where a new county councilman recently introduced legislation […]
Led by a rise in the federally mandated minimum wage and growing fundraising costs, expenses for nonprofits increased by considerably more than the rate of inflation in 2007, reported the NonProfit Times earlier this week. Bad news, to be sure, but also an opportunity for nonprofits to reach out to existing donors in new ways […]
Intrigued by the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ call for a congressional ban on percentage-based fundraising, I dropped the organization a note to ask whether it offers members any kind of endorsement or recognition — an AFP seal of approval — for adhering to its ethical standards. No, responded AFP CEO Paulette Maehara in an e-mail,
but […]
Catching up on stuff that got lost in the holiday shuffle, I discovered that my post about Alex’s Lemonade Stand was a winner in Babylune blogger Kate Baggott’s Generous December Group Writing Project. As a result, Kate donated $20 to the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. I’m deeply appreciative of Kate’s generosity, not only in her […]
Most nonprofits shut down the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and I followed suit to focus on family, friends, and relaxation. However, my travels last weekend took me to the greater D.C. metro area, and I found a fascinating piece in Sunday’s Washington Post about the rise in philanthropic giving by children. Apparently […]
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