A Skateboard Legend’s Half-Pipe Dreams
On a crisp, sunny morning here, a dozen or so teenagers in baggy jeans do their best to defy gravity. At a newly built skateboard park, they zip through the gray-white hills and valleys with abandon, the soft rolling sound of their rubber wheels punctuated by the occasional crash of a failed ollie…
By Ian Wilhelm
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A Guru of Grass-Roots Fund Raising Takes On a New Role
Kim Klein had planned to spend her life counseling parishioners, not grass-roots nonprofit groups. But ALSO SEE: Info: About Kim Klein, Former Publisher of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal while studying to become a Methodist minister 30 years ago, Ms. Klein volunteered at a shelter for battered…
By nicole lewis
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What to Do With Problem Board Members
NEW BOOKS Taming the Troublesome Board Member, by Katha Kissman, uses case studies to examine how nonprofit leaders can deal effectively with problematic trustees. Five chapters discuss common issues, such as disrupted meetings and cliques within the board, the behaviors that cause the problems,…
By Anne W. Howard
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Lessons from a Foundation’s Efforts to Help Orchestras
NEW BOOKS The Search for Shining Eyes: Audiences, Leadership and Change in the Symphony Orchestra World, by Thomas Wolf, is a history of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s $13-million Magic of Music program. In 1994, as symphonies nationwide faced serious financial crises and declining…
By Anne W. Howard
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Legal Guide Shows Nonprofit Groups How to Participate in the Election Process
NEW BOOKS Nonprofits, Voting & Elections: A Guide for 501(c)(3) Organizations on Non-Partisan Voter Participation and Education, outlines how charities can get involved in the electoral process without breaking the law. The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network publication lists the activities…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Collection of Andrew Carnegie’s Writings
NEW BOOKS The “Gospel of Wealth” Essays and Other Writings, edited by David Nasaw, is a collection of Carnegie’s writings, selected by his biographer, David Nasaw, on capitalism, philanthropy, and money. In “The Gospel of Wealth II,” Carnegie explains his conviction that the rich man has a…
By Anne W. Howard
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An Examination of Giving by Female Donors
NEW BOOKS The Transformative Power of Women’s Philanthropy
By Anne W. Howard
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New Technology Provides New Opportunities for Charities
NEW BOOKS Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age
By Anne W. Howard
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The Life of a Pittsburgh Businessman and Philanthropist
NEW BOOKS Andrew Carnegie
By Anne W. Howard
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Lawmaker Challenges College-Sports Exemption
In the latest salvo in what appears to be a growing interest on Capitol Hill in an investigation of college athletics, a congressman has asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association to justify the tax-exempt status of big-time sports programs. That request came in a letter to the…
By Paul Fain
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