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 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 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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April 24th, 2008
The folks who work at Harvard University, you’d think, are pretty smart cookies, so they had to have seen this one coming: The seven-boxes of material sold to the university by Norman Mailer’s former mistress, Carole Mallory, "includes photos, transcripts of interviews with Mailer, handwritten edits of Mallory’s work and scraps from writing lessons he […]
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April 24th, 2008
The mess at Antioch College got the New York Times treatment last weekend, with the paper’s intellectual life writer, Patricia Cohen, presenting a comprehensive overview of the current atmosphere on campus in the Education Life supplement. Most of Cohen’s piece focused on what students and faculty are going through in the face of the college’s […]
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April 20th, 2008
The effects of anti-terrorism finance programs on nonprofits. | OMB Watch
The huge missed opportunity of nonprofit taglines. | Getting Attention
Advocating for a nonprofit voice in regional economic development decision making. | Roanoke Times
Uganda proposes taxing a private university. | allAfrica.com
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April 15th, 2008
Well-heeled colleges and universities are being scrutinized for their impressive endowments and facing questions about why those funds aren’t used to lower tuition or in the service of underresourced groups. But as Sunday’s New York Times showed, for many schools, gifts come with so many odd qualifications that it can be difficult to them to […]
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April 10th, 2008
Assuming they haven’t pissed away their fortunes on Cristal and Hummers — a big assumption, I grant you — elite athletes retire with very healthy bank accounts. Some continue amassing wealth through TV gigs, personal appearances, and marketing jobs that embody the word "cushy"; others have nobler pursuits. The former Phoenix Suns star Kevin Johnson, […]
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March 31st, 2008
Antioch College is about to close, and undoubtedly the accompanying hand-wringing will include an intense search for someone to blame. Unfortunately, there are plenty of worthy candidates:
Antioch’s board, for failing to direct the implementation of policies that could have staved off such financial disaster.
The college’s office of institutional advancement, for failing to adequately solicit donations […]
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March 30th, 2008
Are you connecting with your "wired wealthy"? Probably not.
The power of e-mail to reach your publics.
Tips on keeping your board’s head in the game.
Should the sector call itself something different?
Harvard Law took a good first step. More is needed.
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