What the Certified Fund-Raising Executive Credential Means — and What It Doesn’t
As an associate director of development at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Jennifer Covington helps attract big gifts to the Houston hospital. Her six-year career has also included fund-raising jobs at two other Texas medical institutions. She looks forward to a long career…
By David Whelan
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‘Mother Jones’: Volunteer Vacations
Global Volunteers sends 2,000 Americans a year on public-service missions to impoverished countries, but based on one volunteer’s experience renovating a community center in Hagley Gap, Jamaica, “it’s hard to tell who’s helping whom,” reports Mother Jones (December). Bud Philbrook, a Minnesota…
By David Whelan
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‘Town and Country’: America’s Big Donors
Bill and Melinda Gates, by donating $2-billion in Microsoft stock to their namesake foundation, receive top billing in the November Town & Country magazine’s coverage of the year’s most generous philanthropists. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s endowment now totals $23.5-billion and remains…
By David Whelan
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‘Moment’: a Shortage of Jewish Personnel
A serious personnel crisis faces Jewish federations, community organizations, and schools, reports the Jewish magazine Moment (October). The shortage has been acknowledged since the mid-1980s, when the Council of Jewish Federations formed a special committee to examine the problem. And, ironically,…
By David Whelan
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‘Fast Company’: Cancer Society’s Challenge
Two years ago the American Cancer Society realized that many of the executives who lead its 18 autonomous divisions were nearing retirement age. According to the magazine Fast Company (October), the nonprofit organization communicated an unusual message to its 6,500-person workforce: Step forward…
By David Whelan
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