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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
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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 […]
Sarah Todd, a regional manager for the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, thinks that merely operating within the confines of the law leaves the third sector weaker than it ought to be. Writing in the Savannah Morning News, Todd recommended that nonprofits adopt "a written code of ethics and practice standards" to which staffers, board members, […]
Nonprofits raised 19 percent more money online in 2007 than in the prior year, according to a new study from the Nonprofit Technology Network and M+R Strategic Services. This was despite the facts that e-mail open rates, click-through rates, and response rates all dropped in the same period and that over half of the surveyed […]
We’re reaching the end of National Volunteer Week, the annual commemoration of those special people who provide countless nonprofits with crucial sweat equity. Points of Light & Hands On Network wants to keep that recognition going year-round. The organization lists as its core mission "to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes […]
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