A Grant-Seeking Handbook for Artists
NEW BOOKS Guide to Getting Arts Grants, by Ellen Liberatori, teaches artists how to find financial support for their work. After providing a basic background on foundations and the grant-making process, Ms. Liberatori describes each step in applying for a grant in detail, including suggestions on…
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Conservatives Are More Generous, Says Author
NEW BOOKS Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservativism
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Boards Should Avoid Trouble by Staying Informed
NEW BOOKS A Desktop Guide for Nonprofit Directors, Officers, and Advisors: Avoiding Trouble While Doing Good
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Donor Withdraws $20-Million Pledge to a Florida University
After Florida International University this month turned down a trustee’s request to stretch out payments on a $20-million pledge so he could save money on taxes, the trustee withdrew the pledge and stepped off the board, saying the university’s president had insulted him. Herbert A. Wertheim,…
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Tycoon’s Trust Awards $120-Million to Six Cancer-Research Centers
A trust set up by Daniel K. Ludwig, a shipping and mining magnate, is providing six research institutions $20-million apiece to establish centers for the study of cancer. Mr. Ludwig died in 1992 at age 95, and since then the trust he created has quietly distributed $50-million to endow…
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Power of Grant Makers Examined in Study of a Poverty-Fighting Effort
NEW BOOKS Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration, by Ira Silver, uses archival data and interviews to analyze a project in Chicago in the early 1990s. The Chicago Initiative, as it was known, was a collaboration between foundations, charities, community leaders,…
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The Importance of Using Data Over Anecdotes
NEW BOOKS Good Stories Aren’t Enough: Becoming Outcomes-Driven in Workforce Development, by Martha A. Miles, argues that nonprofit managers need to base their decisions on data rather than anecdotal evidence. Illustrated with examples from nonprofit organizations that are “outcomes-driven” —…
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How Nonprofit Groups Responded to the 2005 Hurricanes
NEW BOOKS Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response, by Loren Renz and Steven Lawrence, with contributions from Jessica Diaz, provides the results of a survey of 906 community, corporate, and independent foundations. Sponsored by the…
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How and Why Donors Should Carefully Consider Their Giving
NEW BOOKS Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
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