A children’s charity borrows a corporate tool to monitor its performanceKate Becker, a vice president at Kaboom, a Washington charity, helps oversee her charity’s efforts to build hundreds of playgrounds and recreational spaces each year. Helping her to manage and keep track of all those projects…
By Debra E. Blum
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Many recruiting ads for key nonprofit jobs turn off more candidates than they attract, experts say The Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville thought it was offering a dream fund-raising job, so when no qualified candidates answered its want ads for four months, officials were puzzled. After…
By Debra E. Blum
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Nonprofit executives are forming support groups to improve their career skills and battle isolation on the job A year ago, Ruth Ann Binder was struggling with her board of directors, worried about budget shortfalls, uncertain about her organization’s future, and, for the first time in her life,…
By Sue Hoye
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Charity leaders often find themselves walking a tightrope, struggling to carry out their social missions while grappling with the growing competition for contributions, high turnover among top staff members, and a dearth of the detailed performance data they need to make timely management decisions…
Congress Should End Special Tax Breaks for Art Gifts
Wealthy donors have long received extraordinarily generous tax breaks when they donate art to museums. For years, donors have been permitted to give partial ownership rights of an art object to a museum or charity and immediately receive a tax deduction on their income taxes for the donated portion…
By PABLO EISENBERG
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Leadership. The Heinz Family Foundation (Pittsburgh) has announced the recipients of the 2006 Heinz Awards, which recognize exceptional leadership and accomplishments in…
Case Studies in Reclaiming Dropouts
NEW BOOKS Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth, by Nancy Martin and Samuel Halperin, describes a selection of efforts across the United States to aid school dropouts. The report focuses on counties and cities in eleven states that seek to encourage young…
By Anne W. Howard
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Essays to Stir Discussion Among Progressive Charities and Foundations
NEW BOOKS State of Philanthropy 2006: Creating Dialogue for Tomorrow’s Movements, explores today’s “realities of the nonprofit and philanthropic sector” from a progressive perspective. In the first of 12 essays, David R. Jones, chief executive officer of the Community Service Society of New York,…
By Anne W. Howard
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NEW BOOKS Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations, by Edward J. McMillan, suggests how charities can safeguard themselves against embezzlement. Mr. McMillan, an accountant and fraud examiner, identifies some of the most common schemes of embezzlers, including stealing checks through phony…
By Anne W. Howard
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Confronting Change in the Nonprofit World
NEW BOOKS Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively
By Anne W. Howard
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