Helping Ex-Prisoners Find Work and Community Support
NEW BOOKS Call to Action: How Programs in Three Cities Responded to the Prisoner Reentry Crisis, by Paul VanDeCarr, details successful efforts in Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, and Washington to help recently released prisoners return to society. In the Jacksonville program, ex-prisoners helped build…
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A Study of Pakistani-Americans and Their Philanthropy
NEW BOOKS Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora
By Anne W. Howard
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Learning to Be More Accountable
NEW BOOKS Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results
By Anne W. Howard
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$400-Million Pledge to Aid Students at Columbia U.
The media magnate John W. Kluge has promised to provide $400-million to Columbia University when he dies, the largest gift a living donor has pledged to an American college or university, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Mr. Kluge, a 92-year-old self-made billionaire who attended the…
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How Nonprofit Groups Can Figure Out What They Are Accomplishing
NEW BOOKS The Nonprofit Dashboard: A Tool for Tracking Progress, by Lawrence M. Butler, offers a guide to creating a shorthand report to help board members quickly understand how their organization is performing. The book describes what a “dashboard report” is able to measure and how to choose…
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Defining the Ideal Leader for a Foundation
NEW BOOKS Competencies for Chief Executive Officers of Private Foundations, aims to clarify what the job requirements for a foundation’s chief executive should be. Often, the report finds, the high expectations for a CEO “are more akin to an anthology of hope than to a definition of role.” To that…
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Supporting Cultural Organizations in Large Cities
NEW BOOKS Arts and Culture in the Metropolis: Strategies for Sustainability, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, and Jennifer L. Novak, examines arts organizations in 11 metropolitan areas. This study, commissioned by the William Penn Foundation and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural…
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Profile of a Philanthropist, the Widow of a Businessman
NEW BOOKS Mrs. Russell Sage: Women’s Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
By Anne W. Howard
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How Small Groups Promote Social Change
NEW BOOKS From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
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How to Bring in Money for Your Organization
NEW BOOKS Capital Campaigns
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