Giving Up an Hour’s Wage to Help Others
Each year Asha for Education, a New York charity that supports education projects in India, has asked its supporters to donate at least an hour’s worth of their salaries to finance its programs. For the “Work an Hour” campaign’s 10th anniversary, Asha last year sought to connect donors — many of…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Comic-Strip Appeal Doubles Donations to an Annual Fund
When Lisa, a character in Tom Batiuk’s nationally syndicated comic strip Funky Winkerbean, discovered she had breast cancer last year, she and her husband visited the Gathering Place, a nonprofit group in Beachwood, Ohio, that helps cancer patients and their loved ones. Benjamin Light, the…
By Anne W. Howard
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Raising a Glass for Charity: Wine Sales Benefit Good Causes
A red wine named after a pig is raising thousands of dollars for charitable causes in Seattle. The Pike Place Market Foundation, in Seattle, has counted on a giant bronze piggy bank named Rachel to solicit donations for more than two decades. It attracts about $8,000 a year from visitors to the…
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Looks at How ‘Conversion Foundations’ Work and Interact With Community
NEW BOOKS Connecting to Community and Building Accountability: Findings From the 2006 Survey of Foundations Formed From Health Care Conversions looks at the operations and governance of 107 so-called conversion foundations that were created when nonprofit health-care groups became for-profit…
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Encourages Foundations to Speak Up to Influence Public Policy
NEW BOOKS Communicating for Policy Change explores how grant makers can work to influence public policy through marketing and news-media outreach. The report, which draws its advice from conversations with 90 health grant makers, discusses how foundations should plan, develop, and deliver their…
By Anne W. Howard
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Book Provides Advice on Social Entrepreneurship
NEW BOOKS Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact: A Social-Entrepreneurship Approach to Solving Social Problems, by Andrew M. Wolk and Kelley Kreitz, offers a guide for charities interested in business ventures, and for businesses whose main goal is to benefit society. This book defines…
By Anne W. Howard
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Fund Raisers Should Help Donors Enjoy the Gift-Giving Experience
NEW BOOKS Winning Gifts: Make Your Donors Feel Like Winners
By Anne W. Howard
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Sociologist Studies ‘Awareness Ribbons’ and Their Wearers
NEW BOOKS Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion, and Public Awareness
By Anne W. Howard
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Holistic Approach to Proposal Development Wins Grants, Book Says
NEW BOOKS From Idea to Funded Project: Grant Proposals for the Digital Age, Fifth Edition
By Anne W. Howard
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A Guide to Researching, Applying for, and Using Grants
NEW BOOKS Finding Funding: Grantwriting From Start to Finish, Including Project Management and Internet Use, Fifth Edition
By Anne W. Howard
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