Study Explores Capacity of Faith-Based Groups to Assist Youths
The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings From the National Faith-Based Initiative, by Shawn Bauldry and Tracey A. Hartmann, discusses a five-year project that explored the potential of religious organizations to counsel young people who have been in trouble with the law. The…
By Caroline Preston
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Directory Details Opportunities for Operating Support
Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations 2004 is a directory of foundations and other sources of grants that cover the day-to-day costs of running a nonprofit organization. It lists approximately 1,300 grant programs that offer operating support, organized by state, along with information about…
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Advice for Board Members Seeking to Influence Public Policy
The Nonprofit Board Member’s Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy, by Marcia Avner, provides recommendations for board members seeking to increase their nonprofit organizations’ impact on policy decisions. Ms. Avner, public-policy director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, in St. Paul, advises…
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Lessons on Corporate Social Responsibility
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
By Caroline Preston
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Nonprofit Legal Problems, and How to Solve Them
Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries
By Caroline Preston
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Advice for Cultivating Donor Commitment
Building Donor Loyalty: The Fundraiser’s Guide to Increasing Lifetime Value
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60,000 Books Donated to Emory U.
Raymond Danowski, a retired art dealer and collector of modern English-language poetry, has donated an estimated 60,000 books to Emory University, in Atlanta. The gift from Mr. Danowski, a former New Yorker who now lives in South Africa, was years in the making. Ronald Schuchard, a literature…
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Report on Open Society Institute’s Project on Palliative Care
Transforming the Culture of Dying: The Project on Death in America, October 1994 to December 2003 is an overview of the Open Society Institute’s $45-million grant-making program to improve care for dying people and their families. It traces how the nine-year Project on Death in America, one of the…
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Techniques For Writing Persuasive Fund-Raising Proposals
How To Write Knockout Proposals: What You Need to Know (and Say) to Win Funding Every Time, by Joseph Barbato, is a collection of more than 50 tips for writers seeking to win money for charitable causes. Mr. Barbato, a fund-raising consultant in Alexandria, Va., shows grant seekers how to describe…
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A History of Texas Foundations
The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy, by Mary L. Kelley, is a scholarly examination of the philanthropic movement in Texas during the half-century following the creation of the state’s first private foundation in 1920. Ms. Kelley, an assistant professor at Lamar University, in Beaumont, Tex.,…
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