New Technology and How Charities Can Use It
NEW BOOKS Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 — Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Looks at Factors That Affect Grant Makers’ Expenses
NEW BOOKS What Drives Foundation Expenses & Compensation?: Results of a Three-Year Study, by Elizabeth T. Boris, Loren Renz, Mark A. Hager, Rachel Elias, and Mahesh Somashekhar, examines what the 10,000 largest U.S. grant makers spent on administrative expenses from 2001 to 2003. Among the key…
By Anne W. Howard
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Asking Donors for Bequests and Other Estate Gifts Through Direct Mail
NEW BOOKS How to Raise Planned Gifts by Mail, by Larry Stelter, offers advice and case studies about attracting bequests and other such donations. Mr. Stelter, president of the Stelter Company, a planned-giving communications firm, also provides examples of letters sent to current and former donors…
By Anne W. Howard
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Life Story of a Playboy Model Turned Charity Leader
NEW BOOKS Angels of a Lower Flight, by Susie Scott Krabacher, is the autobiography of a former Playboy magazine model who founded the Mercy and Sharing Foundation, which does humanitarian work among children in Haiti. Ms. Krabacher, who was physically and sexually abused as a child in Alabama, went…
By Anne W. Howard
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Community Organizers Discuss Their Work
NEW BOOKS We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do — and Why
By Anne W. Howard
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Nonprofit and Political Groups Need to Learn How to Market to Women
NEW BOOKS The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World — and How to Reach Them
By Anne W. Howard
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How Foundations Can Influence Corporate Decisions This Year
NEW BOOKS Proxy Season 2008: Helping Foundations Align Investment and Mission, offers a guide to forthcoming social and environmental shareholder proposals on which foundations can vote. The publication says that proxy votes, in which investors vote on company policy or governance, can be a tool to…
By Anne W. Howard
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What to Do When Problems Arise With a Charity’s Founder
NEW BOOKS Moving Beyond Founder’s Syndrome to Nonprofit Success, by Thomas A. McLaughlin and Addie Nelson Backlund, is a guide for board members. It attempts to help them deal with “the imbalance of power in a nonprofit organization in favor of the founding executive that occurs because of the…
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Discusses How to Help Grantees After the Grant Period Is Over
NEW BOOKS The Effective Exit: Managing the End of a Funding Relationship, by Anne Mackinnon and Jan Jaffe, helps grant makers decide when and how to stop supporting a charity’s programs. For example, a grant-making relationship might end because the work is finished, the foundation is shifting its…
By Anne W. Howard
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