Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant set out three years ago to do for the nonprofit world what the best-selling author ALSO SEE: TEXT: Characteristics of Success LIST: The Dozen Organizations That Made the Cut ARTICLE: To Identify Stellar Groups, Authors Tell Foundations to Look Beyond…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
New Center Aims to Give Higher-Education Donors More Power
A new nonprofit group that will broker gifts between philanthropists and colleges plans to use big donations as a carrot to get “complacent” colleges and universities to become more serious about achievement. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which is based in Indianapolis, is…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Accounting Service Helps Charities Raise Growth Funds, for a Price
In the for-profit world, a promising young business usually has little trouble raising money ALSO SEE:DOCUMENT: Private Placement Memorandum and Prospectus to help pay for growth. The company could sell shares to investors — perhaps through a public offering in the stock market — and use the…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Charity Seeks to Extend Opportunities for Immigrants by Expanding Services
For many charities that want to offer their services to more people, a first step is to add a site in a nearby city. ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Way to GrowARTICLE: Back to SchoolARTICLE: After a Century of Operations, a Charity Starts Its Growth SpurtARTICLE: Community-Service Group Develops a Guidebook to…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Community-Service Group Develops a Guidebook to Manage Growth
City Year, the youth service corps that started in Boston, wants to operate in 20 cities by its 20th anniversary, in 2008. ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Way to GrowARTICLE: Back to SchoolARTICLE: After a Century of Operations, a Charity Starts Its Growth SpurtARTICLE: Charity Seeks to Extend Opportunities for…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
After a Century of Operations, a Charity Starts Its Growth Spurt
Proponents of a move to rapidly expand successful nonprofit programs — or “take them to scale” — tend ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Way to GrowARTICLE: Back to SchoolARTICLE: Community-Service Group Develops a Guidebook to Manage GrowthARTICLE: Charity Seeks to Extend Opportunities for Immigrants by Expanding…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Timothy Flowers won a prestigious Truman Scholarship while at Wabash College, and he had planned to use ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Way to GrowARTICLE: After a Century of Operations, a Charity Starts Its Growth SpurtARTICLE: Community-Service Group Develops a Guidebook to Manage GrowthARTICLE: Charity Seeks…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 — and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Teach for America has ALSO SEE: TABLE: Expanding the Reach of Charities: a Decade of Growth ARTICLE: Back to School ARTICLE:…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Settlement Requires Animal Charity to Return $4-Million in Katrina Gifts
A California animal-rescue charity that raised $8.4-million to care for animals left behind following ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Struggling Toward RecoveryARTICLE: Blueprint for RebuildingARTICLE: Legal WranglingARTICLE: Young People Capture Horrors--and Hope--After KatrinaARTICLE: Charities in New Orleans…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Looking to Increase Support for Jewish Causes? Just Take a Hike
On a drizzly August morning, Jehuda Reinharz, president of Brandeis University, laces up his hiking shoes for a climb up Aspen Mountain. He’s not on vacation, but rather at an unusual annual meeting between donors and charity executives, where callused feet and high-altitude conditioning can make…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor