NEW BOOKS Listen, Learn, Lead: Grantmaker Practices That Support Nonprofit Results, reports on the Change Agent Project of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. The project is an effort to collect information from nonprofit leaders and grant makers about how foundations can help charities become…
By Anne W. Howard
Contributor
Smoothing the Way for a New Nonprofit Leader
NEW BOOKS Executive Transitions: Grant Makers and Nonprofit Leadership Change, by Angela Bonavoglia and Anne Mackinnon, outlines how foundations can help nonprofit organizations as they recruit, train, and support a new leader. The publication describes a grant maker’s role in leadership…
By Anne W. Howard
Contributor
Finding Inspiration in Charity Leaders
NEW BOOKS Passionaries: Turning Compassion Into Action
By Anne W. Howard
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A Guide to Running a Social-Change Campaign
NEW BOOKS How to Save the World in Your Spare Time
By Anne W. Howard
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‘Outside’: A Charity Plans for Big Growth
Here’s a fund-raising strategy many charities have probably never tried: asking donors to give money if staff members eat nothing but grapefruit for two weeks. Grist.org, a nonprofit environmental-news Web site in Seattle, helped pay part of a staff member’s $35,000 salary with money raised from…
By Nicole Lewis
Contributor
‘Fortune’: Battles Over Donors’ Intentions
More and more donors and charities are embroiled in disputes over ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Princeton University Returns Small Part of Donation Ensnared in Court Battle how contributions are supposed to be used, reports Fortune magazine (March 19). But donors should take note: A law passed in August, the…
By Nicole Lewis
Contributor
The Head of a New York Charity Crusades for Children, State by State
It is 8:30 on a winter morning, and Marcia Robinson Lowry has just arrived ALSO SEE: TEXT BOX: About Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director, Children’s Rights at her office in midtown Manhattan. It’s about an hour earlier than she normally gets in, but today promises to be extremely busy, with…
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Congressman Agrees to Lead a Group to Focus on Philanthropy
Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican from North Carolina, has agreed to co-chair a Congressional philanthropy caucus to try to raise awareness among his colleagues about issues affecting nonprofit groups and foundations. Said his spokeswoman, Carolyn Hern: “Nonprofits have a huge role to play in the…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Bits: ‘Bridging the Innovation Divide’ Chronicles Charities’ Technological Efforts
PolicyLink and BCT Partners have released a report on charities that have been quick to adopt new technology. “Bridging the Innovation Divide” examines problems the 12 groups that are described in the report have faced and offers advice for integrating technology into a charity’s operations. For…
By Sam Kean
Contributor
Internet Delivers Advice to Victims of Date Violence
Break the Cycle, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, is trying to create a safe, welcoming place on the Internet where young people can find out about a difficult subject: date violence. The new Web site, TheSafeSpace.org, discusses the signs of an abusive relationship and steps to take to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor