Anybody else get a rush when you walk into a library? All that … stuff. And great stuff, too! And all of it for free, at your fingertips. Knowledge and trivia and discoveries and literature and art, yours for the taking.
One of the world’s great libraries, the New York Public Library, was dedicated on this […]
Could Nancy Schwartz’s prediction of a new Chinese nonprofit movement be coming true? The Washington Post reported earlier this week that young people have flooded to Sichuan in hopes of assisting in earthquake recovery efforts, in the process sparking a debate within the country over whether they were helping out or just getting in the […]
Remember the Internal Revenue Service poking into whether Barack Obama’s address to a United Church of Christ convention last year violated the church’s tax-exempt status? Comes word today from taxgirl that the IRS just issued a "My bad" about the matter:
The IRS determined that the UCC had made several attempts to stay in compliance noting […]
Some good news in these lean economic times: According to a new report from the Foundation Center, the United States’ 717 grantmaking community foundations doled out a record $4.1 billion last year, up 14 percent over 2006, and nearly two-thirds of the foundations surveyed anticipated giving more in 2008. A Foundation Center official attributed the […]
Writing on the Getting Attention Blog, nonprofit marketing guru Nancy Schwartz speculates that the Chinese government’s atypically active response to last week’s Sichuan earthquake could lead to the development, for the first time, of "a real nonprofit sector" in the country:
There are already thousands of grassroots nonprofits in China, but they are fighting just to […]
Love it or hate it, the Internet isn’t going anywhere, and for nonprofits, it’s a terrific and inexpensive way to talk about mission and engage people with what they’re trying to do. Even now, though, too many of the sector’s organizations flounder around online without a clue as to the medium’s vast possibilities. A couple […]
Yesterday, at a local gas station near my home, I saw something I had never seen before: gasoline selling for more than $4 per gallon. Granted, it was premium, but still. For nonprofits that hit the road often, that’s a hefty expenditure, and one that appears unlikely to move in a positive direction for any […]
Sigh … Another attempt to apply business acumen to effecting social change. | The Boston Globe
Midsized nonprofits to their boards: Please raise more money, and keep a closer eye on things here. | 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 […]
Our friends in the corporate world like to think they’re setting an example for us nonprofit types to follow, but according to a study cited by Simon van Wyk, founder of the digital marketing company HotHouse Interactive, "charities in the US are outpacing the business world in their use of social media/web 2.0."
The study of […]
Gasoline, as you may have heard, is getting more and more expensive, a tough burden to bear as commutes to work become ever more torturous.
Bicycling is a terrific way to kick up your cardiovascular regimen without stressing your knees.
Put them together and you have the annual Bike-to-Work Day, which, for 2008, is today, the culmination […]
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