Learn from the Most Common Mistakes Charities Make When Upgrading Their Technology
TOOLS AND TRAINING By Marilyn Dickey Three years ago, Children’s Services of Roxbury had no e-mail, no Web access, and a computer system that was inefficient and suffered frequent breakdowns. Many employees of the Massachusetts child-welfare organization worked at homeless shelters and would fax…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Hiring an Interim Leader Helps Arts Groups in Transition Maintain Fund Raising, Says Survey
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Hiring consultants to temporarily take over vacant executive-director posts proved successful for several nonprofit performing-arts organizations, a new survey reveals. The survey indicates that it also was effective to extend the term of the departing executive until…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
IN THE TRENCHES By Jennifer C. Berkshire When welfare benefits expired for tens of thousands of California residents on January 1, the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness was more than prepared. For months, the group’s Welfare Reform Advocacy Project had been conducting seminars…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
The Lives and Philosophies of History-Making Philanthropists
Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering, by Robert T. Grimm Jr., provides 80 biographical sketches of more than 110 people who have helped shape the American philanthropic tradition, starting in the 17th century. Mr. Grimm, who teaches philanthropic studies and…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Developing Giving Plans for Businesses
The Maryland Business Giving Workbook: Helping Your Business Make a Difference in Your Community offers advice to businesses seeking to develop and administer corporate-giving programs. The Baltimore Giving Project, affiliated with the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, say national surveys…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
How to Follow Federal Law That Forbids Charity Officials From Getting Excessive Financial Benefits
The Law of Intermediate Sanctions: a Guide for Nonprofits
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Creating Tomorrow’s Philanthropists: Curriculum Development for Youth
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Commercial TV Executive Makes Switch to Public Broadcasting
Having spent much of his career as a commercial-broadcasting executive, Luca Bentivoglio is now charged with promoting Latino programming in the challenging arena of public television. In January, he was appointed executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization in Los…
By Sandy Asirvatham
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Community development. The Local Initiative Support Corporation Chicago has presented its 2003 Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards to developers, projects, and…
‘City Journal’: Experiences at Teach for America
Joshua Kaplowitz joined Teach for America three years ago, and ended up getting sued for $20-million by a parent who accused him of physically harming her son. He provides a first-person account of his year teaching in a troubled District of Columbia school in City Journal (Winter). Teach for…