Guide to Overseeing Investment of Nonprofit Assets
Minding the Money: An Investment Guide for Nonprofit Board Members, by Robert P. Fry Jr., is designed to help board members supervise their organizations’ investments. Mr. Fry, a financial adviser from Irvine, Calif., offers advice on determining investment goals and restrictions and deciding how…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Overview of Health-Conversion Foundations
Health Conversion Foundations, by Margaret Garigan, is a working paper that describes grant-making organizations formed from the conversion of nonprofit health-care groups to for-profit companies. Ms. Garigan, director of corporate and foundation relations at Georgetown University Law Center, in…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Profiles of Individuals Seeking to Improve Social Conditions Worldwide
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Advice on Creating and Running a Planned-Giving Program
The Complete Guide to Planned Giving: Everything You Need to Know to Compete Successfully for Major Gifts, Third Edition
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Former State Senator Is Still Campaigning for Gay Rights
Cheryl Jacques has heard all the clichés by now. She jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. She’s in the eye of the hurricane. She really stepped right into it. Just when she thought she was out, they pulled her back in. But Ms. Jacques, who took over in January as executive director of…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Employment at Nonprofit Groups
How Nonprofit Work Force Compares With Business and Government 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2001 Nonprofit sector 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 9,700,000 11,300,000 12,500,000 Independent sector 5,500,000 6,500,000 7,400,000 9,100,000 10,600,000 11,700,000 Other nonprofit 500,000 500,000 600,000…
Nonprofit Organizations Are Hiring Workers at a Faster Pace Than Government, Businesses
By Cassie J. Moore The number of Americans who work at nonprofit organizations now exceeds 12.5 million, and hiring by ALSO SEE:Employment at Nonprofit Groups such groups has been rising faster than in business or government, according to a new report by two Washington organizations that study…
By Cassie J. Moore
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IRS to Ask Charities to Justify Large Salaries
Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service plans to contact hundreds of charities this summer to ask them to justify the salaries they pay executives and board members, according to Steven T. Miller, commissioner of the IRS’s tax-exempt and government entities division. Among the nonprofit…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Charities
Amid growing Congressional criticism of how charities operate, the Senate Finance Committee last week announced that it plans to hold a hearing on June 22 to discuss proposals to tighten regulation of nonprofit organizations. The chairman of the committee, Sen. Charles R. Grassley, Republican of…
By Harvy Lipman
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An Age-Old Concept Offers a Fresh Solution for a Hospital’s Debt Woes
A handout was the last thing the man sitting in Richard Batt’s office wanted. The man, who was in his early 70s, had enjoyed a career as an accomplished and prize-winning writer. But the royalties had dried up, and he lacked health insurance to pay some hospital bills for his teenage son. “He broke…
By Scott Westcott
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