Understanding Nonprofit Financial Matters: Mixing Theory and Practice
NEW BOOKS Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Looks at How Foundations and Charities Can Serve Black Males
NEW BOOKS Why We Can’t Wait: A Case for Philanthropic Action: Opportunities for Improving Life Outcomes for African-American Males, by Marcus J. Littles, Ryan Bowers, and Micah Gilmer, analyzes research, policies, and programs that affect black men and boys. The report is meant “to help open a…
By Anne W. Howard
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Discussing ‘Quick-Take’ Redevelopment Efforts
NEW BOOKS Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts, seeks to examine recent policy changes regarding eminent domain and community redevelopment. The report looks at “what impact these proposed changes might have on the development of affordable housing and mixed-income…
By Anne W. Howard
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Strengthening Fund-Raising Efforts Means ‘Cultivating’ Donors, Book Says
NEW BOOKS Beyond the Ask Event: Fully Integrating the Benevon Model, by Terry Axelrod, cautions fund raisers not to let their guard down. After a successful fund-raising event, organizations often breathe a sigh of relief and fail to continue cultivating donors, says Ms. Axelrod, a nonprofit…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Guide to Creating a Bequest Program
NEW BOOKS Raising Money Through Bequests: How Your Organization Can Profit From the Biggest Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth in History
By Anne W. Howard
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Tycoon Made a Fortune Just to Give It Away
NEW BOOKS The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
By Anne W. Howard
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$200-Million Donated to Calif. College; MIT and a Pa. Fund Also Win Big Gifts
Three institutions have received $100-million or more from individuals: Robert Day, a California financier, is giving $200-million to his alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, a liberal-arts institution in Claremont, Calif., to pay for a new master’s-degree program for economics and finance. Mr.…
By Maria Di Mento and Anne W. Howard
$100-Million Donated to MIT for Cancer Research
$100-million donated to MIT
By Anne W. Howard
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Pa. Community Fund Receives $100-Million Pledge
Pa. community fund receives $100-million pledge
By Anne W. Howard
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A Comprehensive Discussion of Nonprofit Laws
NEW BOOKS The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Ninth Edition, by Bruce R. Hopkins, aims to serve as an understandable, useful resource for charity officials and lawyers alike. The book is a comprehensive guide to the rationale behind and implications of laws that govern nonprofit groups of all…
By Anne W. Howard
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