Getting the Word Out About Your Nonprofit Organization
The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to...Attracting the Attention Your Cause Deserves, by Joseph Barbato, provides charity employees with 29 simple tips for raising the profile of their organization. Mr. Barbato, an author who has worked for such nonprofit institutions as New York University,…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Learning Grant Writing by Example
Guide to Winning Proposals II, edited by Judith B. Margolin and Gail T. Lubin, is a collection of 31 grant applications that have elicited praise -- and money -- from foundations and other grant makers. The guide includes proposals requesting support to strengthen the management and operations of…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Ending Bad Blood Between United Ways and Community Foundations
Convergence & Competition: United Ways & Community Foundations, A National Inquiry, by Nancy Ragey, discusses how these two types of organization, which sometimes compete for donors and projects, can benefit from greater collaboration. Based on a survey of more than 300 United Ways and community…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
A Primer for Museums New to Grant Seeking
Is Your Museum Grant-Ready?: Assessing Your Organization’s Potential for Funding
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
The Growth of Microfinance Programs in the United States
Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
‘Vanity Fair’: Brouhaha at Private School
Ahost of scandals have plagued St. Paul’s School, the elite boarding school in Concord, N.H. In an article for Vanity Fair, Alex Shoumatoff (Class of ’64) returns to his alma mater to examine how the allegations have affected the “idyllic campus” and its students, teachers, administration, and…
By Marty Michaels
Contributor
‘Time’: A Trio of ‘Good Samaritans’
At first glance, there would seem to be little ground for mutual admiration between Bono, the flamboyant rock superstar and global activist, and Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world’s wealthiest foundation, who largely shun the public spotlight. Yet Time magazine not only names the…
By Marty Michaels
Contributor
Nature Conservancy Rates Highest of Trusted Groups
The AARP and the National Rifle Association are better known than 11 other advocacy groups that focus on influencing federal policy, a new poll has found. The poll also found that the Nature Conservancy, an environmental charity in Arlington, Va., ranked as the most-trusted organization, with the…
By Leah Kerkman
Contributor
Grant-Maker Group Puts Getty Fund on Probation
The Council on Foundations has placed the J. Paul Getty Trust on probation while it seeks more information from the trust regarding charges of fiscal misconduct — marking the first time the council has taken such action against one of its members. The trust will remain on probation through February…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Bits: Innovation Funders Network Holds “Networks, Innovation, and Social Change” Meeting
Randal D. Pinkett, a consultant in Newark, N.J., who serves as a board member of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network and is a frequent speaker at nonprofit technology conferences, was the winner on the NBC reality television show The Apprentice. Mr. Pinkett chose to work on the construction…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor