A children’s charity borrows a corporate tool to monitor its performanceKate Becker, a vice president at Kaboom, a Washington charity, helps oversee her charity’s efforts to build hundreds of playgrounds and recreational spaces each year. Helping her to manage and keep track of all those projects…
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Many recruiting ads for key nonprofit jobs turn off more candidates than they attract, experts say The Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville thought it was offering a dream fund-raising job, so when no qualified candidates answered its want ads for four months, officials were puzzled. After…
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Transforming a Museum for a New Era
NEW ON THE JOB On Derek Gillman’s first visit to the Barnes Foundation, in suburban Philadelphia, he found the art collection there — featuring a trove of Impressionist and modern masterpieces, including a specially commissioned 47-foot-long mural by Henri Matisse — “endlessly breathtaking” and…
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Baltimore Boy Scouts Group Accused of Firing Whistle-Blower
By Debra E. Blum A former employee of the Boy Scouts of America’s Baltimore council has sued the local group, accusing the organization of defrauding donors by exaggerating the number of youngsters registered for its programs and for firing him when he raised questions about its enrollment…
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Donations to Social-Service and Environmental Groups Rose in 2005
By Debra E. Blum and Holly Hall Following is a summary of how different types of groups fared in their fund raising last year, according to Giving USA, the ALSO SEE: Chart: Where the Money Came From Chart: How Donations Fared Over Past Two Years, by Charitable Cause Article: Coming on Strong…
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Cautiously, World Vision Creates an Endowment
Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groupsArticles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on endowments Supplement in print: Order print copies of the Endowments supplements from June 2006 and August 2005
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At Curtis, the Endowment No Longer Pays for Everything
Chart: How the Curtis Institute of Music’s endowment has faredChart: Where Curtis has invested its endowment Chart: Endowment-spending rates at Curtis Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groups Articles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on…
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Boy Scouts Lose Battle in California’s High Court
The City of Berkeley may withhold subsidies from the Boy Scouts of America or any other nonprofit group that fails to comply with government anti-bias policies, the California Supreme Court ruled last month. The ruling is another legal setback for the Boy Scouts, which has faced opposition to its…
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The Assets of the Nation’s Charities Now Exceed $1.76-Trillion, Report Says
The number of charities in the United States is growing fast, but the wealth of those nonprofit groups is growing ALSO SEE: TABLE: Where Nonprofit Groups Got Their Money TABLE: The Charity World: a Statistical Portrait even faster, according to a new report. The total number of charities with…
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‘American Prospect’: a Senator’s Charity
Sen. Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, runs a charity that isn’t very charitable, and doesn’t have the proper registration to do business in the state, says an article in The American Prospect (March). In an article called “Sour Charity,” the magazine says that Operation Good Neighbor…
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