Appealing to a Donor’s Heart Matters in Tough Times
While nonprofit leaders have spent a lot of time worrying about how their work will change because of the current economic climate, another important shift has been overlooked: The way nonprofit organizations articulate their role in society — and their claim to support from government and private…
By Peter Frumkin
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Is It Wise for Charities to Accept Government Money?
To the Editor: I read the article “A Welcome Jolt” (February 26) with great interest and, I regret to say, with great alarm. I cannot overstate my concern at the level of funding currently being accepted by nonprofit organizations, both religious and secular, as part of the recent stimulus package…
Tread Lightly in Nonprofit Mergers
Economic forecasters may differ about the projected length and severity of the recession, but it seems to be more significant than the nonprofit world has faced in a long time. Some of the estimates of what might happen are dire. Indeed, Paul Light, a scholar at New York University, has suggested…
By Peter Goldberg
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Opinion: Major Dailies Debate Case on Conservative Group’s Clinton Film
Opinion: Major dailies debate case on conservative group’s Clinton film
Lawmaker Seeks to Support Nonprofit Groups, Aide Says
Influential lawmaker seeks to support nonprofit groups, aide says
By Ian Wilhelm
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President Obama’s Special-Olympics Gaffe Presents ‘Teachable Moment’
President Obama’s Special-Olympics gaffe presents ‘teachable moment’
By Jennifer Moore
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Opinion: Gates Foundation Suffers From Feedback Gap
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation needs to interact more with the larger nonprofit world and open itself to independent voices, a Georgetown University senior fellow writes in The Seattle Times. Pablo Eisenberg, of Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute and a Chronicle columnist, says the…
All the News That’s Fit to Finance
The most widely accepted rationale for the existence of nonprofit organizations is that they fill important public needs that the market and government are unable or unwilling to meet. If there were ever a case for a vital unmet public need in contemporary American democracy, it is the gaping hole…
By Bruce Sievers
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Don’t Levy an Excise Tax on Charitable Giving
Americans have long prided themselves on maintaining a free and open society that encourages private initiative and a minimum of government interference in their lives. Even when individual behavior is thought by the majority to be wasteful, self-destructive, or both, we are still reluctant to make…
By Robert F. Sharpe Jr.
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It’s Time for Newspapers to Become Nonprofit Organizations
Throughout the journalistic world and elsewhere, speculation about the future of newspapers has grown fatalistic. Advertising revenue is declining and stock values are plummeting in the face of competition from Google and Craigslist and countless news blogs. At newsrooms across the country,…
By Vince Stehle
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