A Generous and Thoughtful Innovator: Peter Goldberg’s Legacy
The longtime nonprofit executive was a font of ideas but also had a knack for bringing others into conversations about how to improve society.
By Lester M. Salamon
Contributor
New Deficit Deal Should Make Nonprofit World Quake
Not only are the direct finances of nonprofits threatened but so too is the ability of citizen groups to represent the needs of America’s most vulnerable.
By Gary D. Bass and KATHERINE MCFATE
When Will Grant Makers Step Up to Soothe Economy’s Pain?
As a start to soothing the economic pain, grant makers should double their giving over the next five years, writes a former Ford Foundation official.
By MICHAEL EDWARDS
Contributor
In Decade Since 9/11, Philanthropy Has Missed Some Key Opportunities
Little progress has been made in nurturing the civic spirit that emerged after the attacks or improving how Americans interact with the parts of the world where the 2001 attacks originated.
By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Contributor
To Grow Bigger, Charities Need to Go Deep—Not Wide—in Fund Raising
Not every charity can get expect to raise money from every private or government source available.
By Peter Kim and Gail Perreault
Peter Goldberg, longtime head of the nonprofit social-service alliance Families International, died of a heart attack Friday while hiking in Maine, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Ruth Brinker, who launched one of the first charities to support AIDS victims, died last week at age 89, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Governments Must Stop Putting Burdens on Nonprofits
As governments take away benefits of tax-exempt status, some groups might just quit making service to society their top priority, wrote Peter Goldberg, a veteran nonprofit executive, shortly before he died last week.
By Peter Goldberg
Contributor
It’s Time for Philanthropic Institutions to Speak Out on Public-Policy Matters
Philanthropy needs to interact with government more closely, and not worry so much about what it cannot do to influence legislation—but what it can do.
By Peter Goldberg
Contributor
Opinion: Charity Cuts Contributed to U.K. Violence
Reduced government support for charities and youth services played a part in this week’s rioting in London and other major British cities, a nonprofit consultant and former member of Parliament writes in The Guardian.
In the Arts: Dallas Benefactor Nancy Hamon Dies at 92
Nancy B. Hamon, the widow of a wealthy Texas oilman who used her inheritance to become one of Texas’s leading patrons of the arts, died Saturday at the age of 92, The Dallas Morning News reports.