California Telemarketer Sentenced for Charity Fraud
Mitchell Gold, a California telemarketer, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail-fraud and money-laundering charges involving $1.5-million he raised in the name of charities but kept for himself. Mr. Gold also pleaded guilty to running a golf-club sales…
By Harvy Lipman
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Essays on Arts-Centered Schools
Planning an Arts-Centered School: a Handbook, edited by Carol Fineberg, consists of 18 essays by artists and educators on the development of schools devoted to the arts, covering such issues as governance, funding, curriculum, student recruitment, community participation, and collaboration with…
By Katy Marquardt
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Examining Group Mentor Programs
Group Mentoring: a Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs, by Carla Herrera, Zoua Vang, and Lisa Y. Gale, explores programs in which volunteers interact regularly with small groups of young people in lieu of one-on-one counsel and guidance, a method that has gained popularity because…
By Katy Marquardt
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Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Organizations
Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
By Katy Marquardt
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How Corporate Philanthropy Has Tried to Close the Digital Divide
Digital Corporate Citizenship: the Business Response to the Digital Divide
By Katy Marquardt
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Simplifying the Search for a New Chief Executive
The search for a new chief executive can be a labor-intensive, high-stakes rite of passage for a board of directors, says the author of Chief Executive Succession Planning: the Board’s Role in Securing Your Organization’s Future.
By Katy Marquardt
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White House Releases Ads to Promote Service
President Bush last week unveiled a new advertising campaign to encourage Americans to devote 4,000 hours over their lifetimes to helping charities and performing other types of public service. The “Everyone Can Do Something” campaign includes print, radio, and television ads produced by the Bush…
By Ian Wilhelm
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State Budget Woes Imperil Financial Future of Many Nonprofit Groups
Glenna Norvelle has had a frantically busy summer, organizing fund-raising kaffeeklatsches and holding ALSO SEE:Off the Charts hopeful meetings with potential supporters of Colorado Youth at Risk, the mentor program for troubled high-school kids that she runs in Denver. The frenzy of activity has…
By DAVID WHELAN
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As the stock market gyrates, charities face tough timesThe recent volatility in the stock market has dragged down the endowments of major foundations and ALSO SEE: State Budget Woes Imperil Financial Future of Many Nonprofit Groups How Stock Market’s Tumble Has Affected Biggest Foundations How Some…
By Michael Anft
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Reading Is Fundamental to NYU Fund Raiser
Karen Smith, New York University’s director of major gifts, calls herself one of Naomi Levine’s ALSO SEE: The Secrets of Her Success “fund-raising children,” and says she learned several major lessons from her mentor, the university’s chief fund raiser for more than two decades. The first: Read The…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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