Using Conflict to Generate Positive Change
NEW BOOKS Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences Into Opportunities
By Anne W. Howard
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How Business Tactics Can Improve Nonprofit Management
NEW BOOKS Don’t Forget the Pizza and Other Rules for Managing a Nonprofit: Using Business Management Tools to Improve the Effectiveness of Nonprofit Agencies
By Anne W. Howard
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Book Describes Contributions of Volunteers Throughout U.S. History
NEW BOOKS By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers, New Century Edition
By Anne W. Howard
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$100-Million Pledged to Yeshiva University by Businessman on Its Board for 30 Years
Ronald P. Stanton, a New York businessman, has pledged $100-million to Yeshiva University, in New York. The money establishes the Ronald P. Stanton Legacy, a fund that the president of the university can tap into to start new projects. Mr. Stanton told the university he didn’t want to earmark the…
By Anne W. Howard
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Retirees Working for ‘Experience Corps’ in Urban Schools
Rewards of Giving: An In-Depth Study of Older Adults’ Volunteer Experiences in Urban Elementary Schools, by Becca Raley, examines a program that links retired people with needy students. Commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report interviewed 43 Experience Corps volunteers, older…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Guide for Foundations That Want to Offer Loans, Other Investments to Charities
Program-Related Investing: Skills and Strategies for New PRI Funders, by Neil Carlson, gives wary foundations a beginner’s guide to program-related investments, or those “made by foundations in support of charitable purposes, with the explicit understanding that those investments will earn…
By Anne W. Howard
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Kresge Foundation’s Efforts to Build Strong Development Offices at Historically Black Colleges
Changing the Odds: Lessons Learned From the Kresge HBCU Initiative, by Billie Sue Schulze, provides the results of a Kresge Foundation program aimed at helping small colleges establish or improve their development offices. Five historically black colleges and universities — Bethune-Cookman College,…
By Anne W. Howard
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How Arts Organizations Can Work More Closely With Governments
The Arts and State Governments: At Arm’s Length or Arm in Arm?, by Julia F. Lowell and Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, explores the relationship between politics and state arts organizations. The report draws from a larger study commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, which looked at “the changing…
By Anne W. Howard
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How Charities Can Steal Marketing Ideas From the Private Sector
Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes
By Anne W. Howard
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Good Habits for Successful Boards
The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards: A 59-Minute Guide to Assuring Your Organization’s Future
By Anne W. Howard
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