Photograph by Duncan Garrett In Healdsburg, Calif., many of the young patients who have been seeking help from the Alliance Medical Center, a nonprofit health-care center that serves mostly low-income Latino families, are overweight. A few of the youngsters neared 200 pounds even before they became…
By Caroline Preston
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Study on How Museums Facilitate Learning
Listening In on Museum Conversations, by Gaea Leinhardt and Karen Knutson, discusses the findings of the Museum Learning Collaborative, a six-year project that asked scholars to evaluate how much education people receive at museums. The study combined sociocultural theories with the recorded…
By Caroline Preston
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Survey Examines Pay in the Nonprofit Field
Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations, 17th Edition, by Steven Langer, reports on a survey of more than 2,300 nonprofit organizations and the pay they offer their employees. Steven Langer, a benefits consultant, in Crete, Ill., finds that the best-paid nonprofit employees are chief executive…
By Caroline Preston
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Report Urges Forward-Looking Approach to Combating HIV/AIDS Abroad
Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term, edited by Princeton N. Lyman and Daniel M. Fox, is a report on a project by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Milbank Memorial Fund, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute, that evaluated the…
By Caroline Preston
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Guide to Tax Codes for Nonprofit Organizations
Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations: Rules, Checklists, Procedures, Fourth Edition
By Caroline Preston
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Book Discusses the Marketing of Nonprofit Institutions
Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld
By Caroline Preston
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Book Discusses Legacy of 1996 Welfare Reform
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare
By Caroline Preston
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‘Worth’: Science and Philanthropy
Science has captured the attention of a growing number of philanthropists, says Worth magazine (September). For instance, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, recently underwrote the first successful privately manned spaceflight, and when NASA terminated a telescope project to search for signs…
By Caroline Preston
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‘Forbes’: Giving by the Superrich
The net worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans in the United States grew to $1-trillion, up $45-billion from the previous year, according to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the nation’s richest people (September 24). Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, was at the top of the list, with…
By Caroline Preston
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‘Foreign Policy’: Hurting the Poor
Nonprofit organizations that advocate on behalf of the poor in the developing world often hurt those they seek to help, writes Sebastian Mallaby in Foreign Policy magazine (September-October). The “feisty, Internet-enabled groups” strive to hold the World Bank and other international lending…
By Caroline Preston
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