A National Animal Charity Offers Its Own Nonprofit-Management Instruction
TOOLS AND TRAINING By Heather Joslyn In November 2000, Phil Morgan, head of the Escondido Humane Society, returned to his Southern California charity after completing an undergraduate program in nonprofit management at a Johns Hopkins University satellite campus. Only two months later, a tragedy…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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A New Professional Network Gives Young Foundation Employees a Voice
BRAINSTORMS By Darlene M. Siska Two years ago, Alejandro S. Amezcua, then 23, was a program assistant at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Mich. He came to the position with a strong background, having been a Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellow in Philanthropy at Indiana University, in…
By Darlene M. Siska
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One in Three California Foundations Employs Paid Workers, Survey Says
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit One-third of California foundations have one or more employees, according to a new study of 228 California grant makers by the Institute for Family Foundations, a consulting company in Irvine, Calif. The survey focused on staffing and compensation, including the duties…
By Lara L. McDavit
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Most Charities Fail to Fill the Gap as Businesses Decrease Their On-Campus Recruiting Efforts
JOB MARKET By David Whelan As the special-projects manager at the YMCA of the USA, Shawn Dunn this year found herself assigned to review the group’s recruiting system. The Chicago organization is the umbrella group for more than 2,500 organizations, and by her count, about 1,000 jobs -- many of…
By DAVID WHELAN
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Risk Management for Organizations That Serve Youths
Season of Hope: a Risk-Management Guide for Youth-Serving Nonprofits, by John C. Patterson and Barbara B. Oliver, explores risks such as child abuse, sexual assault, and injury that these organizations must consider, since harm to young participants during an organization-sponsored activity can…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Personal Charitable Giving and Taxes
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Guide to Charitable Giving, by Michael B. Kennedy, Evelyn M. Capassakis, and Richard S. Wagman, outlines the options available to people who wish to make charitable contributions. The book, written by an accountant and two lawyers who are members of PricewaterhouseCoopers’…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Stages of Nonprofit Capacity Building
Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity, by Susan Kenny Stevens, breaks down the development of nonprofit organizations into seven stages, from the “idea phase” to the terminal one, when an organization must either renew itself or shut down. Susan Kenny Stevens, a…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Building Bridges Between Organizations
Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Agencies
By Jessica Kronstadt
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A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Technology Charity Decides to Pull the Plug on Its Work
PowerUp, a nonprofit group established in 1999 by corporations, private grant makers, and charities to increase needy youngsters’ access to technology, shut its doors last month. Board members and benefactors made the decision after concluding that the organization’s mission had been fulfilled,…
By Ian Wilhelm
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