May 11th, 2008
Canada tries to inject ethics into fundraising. | Toronto Star
Three little letters to guide nonprofit media pitching. | Nonprofit Communications
A nonprofit professional finds herself on the other side of the fundraising relationship … and doesn’t like it. | Nonprofit Congress Blog
Nonprofits join retailers in making a pitch for the government’s lame attempt to bribe taxpayers […]
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May 10th, 2008
The federal law prohibiting nonprofits from supporting specific electoral candidates is about to get challenged by churches, according to a Wall Street Journal report:
A conservative legal-advocacy group is enlisting ministers to use their pulpits to preach about election candidates this September, defying a tax law that bars churches from engaging in politics.
Alliance Defense Fund, a […]
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May 9th, 2008
Nobody wears a ribbon to raise awareness about depression.
There are no 5Ks for bipolar disorder.
A-list actors aren’t participating in suicide-prevention telethons.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and while there are a wealth of nonprofits devoted to assisting those with mental illnesses, they have, for the most part, remained in the second tier of health advocacy […]
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May 8th, 2008
You wouldn’t expect to celebrate the closing of a nonprofit described as "a model of charitable giving."
But the news that the Survivors’ Fund, the largest charity set up to assist Washington-area victims of the September 11 attacks and their families, is closing its doors has a laudatory aspect to it, and the reason has everything […]
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May 7th, 2008
Maine nonprofit fundraiser Alicia Nichols published a poignant piece in today’s Knox and Waldo Village S0up about turning her daughter on to the fulfillment of giving to nonprofits. Nichols writes about growing up as the child of parents who lived through the Great Depression, and how her father failed to understand, after she landed a […]
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May 6th, 2008
To their credit, both Kent Gramm, a professor of English at Wheaton College, and his bosses at the evangelical Christian school in Illinois are acting like grown-ups with regard to his resignation. Gramm is getting divorced, but because he won’t tell Wheaton the reasons for the split, as is required by the college’s Statement of […]
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May 5th, 2008
It was inevitable that in this era of CGI movies and personal avatars, a visual aid as quaint as the light bulb-laden battlefield display at the Gettysburg National Military Park would fall by the wayside. A shiny new facility stands ready to present the details of the seminal Civil War battle using the latest technology, […]
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May 5th, 2008
Never underestimate the power of the ask.
That thought went through my head when I read that a recent Gallup survey revealed that a "a third of young Americans would give a ‘great deal of consideration’ to entering government service if asked by their parents, a teacher or … the next president of the United States […]
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May 4th, 2008
The IRS tilts at nonprofit efficiency and effectiveness windmills. | The Lightning Rod M/M Blog
Bank of America makes the search for foundation dollars a bit easier. | The NonProfit Times
It’s wicked easy to subscribe to 501(c) Files feeds: Just click here and follow the simple instructions. As always, thanks for reading! | 501(c)
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May 4th, 2008
You might find it hard to quibble with a $100 million donation to education, but you’re not the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. David Rockefeller’s massive gift last week to fund study-abroad programs and the arts at Harvard University drew a pointed letter to the editor from Aaron Dorfman in yesterday’s […]
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