The annual display of orgiastic excess and self-promotion that is the Super Bowl takes place next weekend. The New York Giants and New England Patriots will conclude two weeks of mindless hype, absurd media coverage, and countless beer commercials with an actual football game that will, unfortunately, be so immersed in consumption that the National […]
Give Laura Otten this: When the director of the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University enters the blogging pool, she does it with a splash-inducing cannonball, not a wussy little dip of her toe. Otten kicks off her new blog, Nonprofit University, with a really intriguing post about why people give.
University of Colorado Professor Thomas […]
Now that Google has jumped into the philanthropic pool, don’t expect the wildly innovative and ubiquitous online empire to be a passive donor. Google.org, the company’s two-year-old philanthropic division, announced its first grants yesterday, pledging $25 million in the five areas it has chosen to fund:
The development of renewable energy that is cheaper that electricity […]
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 […]
Nonprofits are busy reaching out to their donors to convince them to make that end-of-year gift for tax purposes, and according to Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, they may be more successful this year than last. The NonProfit Times reported yesterday that based on its recent semiannual survey, nonprofit fundraisers are more confident about giving […]
A poster at Ask Metafilter yesterday asked, “How do I choose between two equally worthy charities to receive my donation?” He actually had more than two charities to choose from in the area he had opted to support, animal-related organizations, and he added, “Ultimately, what I want is a method to help me identify a […]
Maybe it’s the former PR guy in me, but even as the fallout from the Red Cross’s cashiering of CEO Mark Everson becomes more sordid, I find some very positive stuff for the organization to hang its hat on. As the NonProfit Times reported recently, not only did the married Everson have an affair with […]
In an era when yellow “Support the Troops” ribbons are plastered on countless cars, in which a politician’s criticism of a war is immediately and reflexively followed by praise for the soldiers fighting it, it is not simply morally wrong for a veterans’ charity to spend most of its donations on fundraising instead of wounded […]
Ever helpful when not being painfully hip, the folks at New York magazine last week chatted up Laurie Styron, an analyst at the American Institute of Philanthropy, for some tips to help New Yorkers find charities that get the most bang for their buck. Her advice: See the Institute’s list of top-rated charities and avoid […]
Convince me, wrote Kate Baggott, the author of the Babylune blog, of the effectiveness and importance of your favorite charity, cause, or helpful organization, and I’ll donate to it in your name.
Capital idea, I wrote back, then set to the daunting task of determining which of the causes with which I’m familiar meet those criteria.
I […]
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