There’s this notion out there that the nonprofit sector has only recently come around to the idea of metrics and accountability, and I’m just not sure that’s true. For example, the Baltimore Sun, in writing about a company that has developed piece of software that purports to measure nonprofit impact, noted the other day:
It’s a [...]
Mention “religious missionaries” and the mind immediately conjures up visions of pious men and women taking lengthy trips to exotic international locales to do good deeds and convert the locals. But these days, missions also include numerous shorter service-immersion trips by younger congregants to foreign lands. As the Washington Post noted earlier this week, some [...]
And you thought Dick Cheney was bad.
On this day in 1804, the vice president of the United States of America shot his political rival during a duel. As in, on purpose. Alexander Hamilton died the following day. His killer, Aaron Burr, was charged but never tried, and eventually returned to Washington, D.C., to serve out [...]
He could have done eBay, but instead of cashing in, Morton Savada chose to share his love of music with a wider audience. The late Manhattan record store owner’s estate recently donated Savada’s 200,000 78-rpm records to Syracuse University, opening up a vast archive of the earliest recorded American music to researchers and audiophiles.
The collection, [...]
In reporting the other day about deals cut by a Maryland county executive to allow developers to purchase and build on public land in exchange for contributions to county charities, The Washington Post focused on the failure of those developers to pony up the scratch once the agreements were in place. But the big pickle, [...]
After reading my post yesterday about ProPublica’s collaboration with 60 Minutes on a story that the Washington Post also delved into, the journalism nonprofit’s general manager, Dick Tofel, wrote to me with “two factual assertions I hope you’ll reconsider”:
60 Minutes “likely would have done [this story] anyway.” What’s your basis for that?
Our Alhurra story is [...]
It’s not the fault of either the Red Cross or the Salvation Army that epic flooding has turned vast swaths of the Midwest into lakes and swampland. But those organizations could have done a better job anticipating funding needs and preparing for having to help those displaced. While the Red Cross has already pleaded poverty, [...]
The inaugural effort of Pro Publica, a new, nonprofit investigative journalism initiative funded by a California philanthropy, gets a thumbs-down from a journalism ethics professor. Writing in the Miami Herald, Edward Wasserman of Washington and Lee University points out that Pro Publica’s collaboration with 60 Minutes on a piece detailing the many flaws of a [...]
For all of the fundraising promise that online initiatives show, the good ol’ USPS still remains a proven medium for scaring up resources. GuideStar, excerpting from Larry Stelter’s How to Raise Money by Mail, recently offered some tips on using snail mail to solicit planned giving.
Such solicitations must be targeted, Stelter writes, ideally to those [...]
In addition to brewing a hell of a beer, Sam Adams’s Jim Koch is linking with a nonprofit to help entrepreneurs get off the ground. | Boston Globe
The nonprofit appeal of Barack Obama. | Blue Avocado
The difficulty in laying down mission-based metrics. | The NonProfit Times
The Federal Housing Administration casts a sharp eye at nonprofits [...]
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