A Generous and Thoughtful Innovator: Peter Goldberg’s Legacy
The longtime nonprofit executive was a font of ideas but also had a knack for bringing others into conversations about how to improve society.
By Lester M. Salamon
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Solving the Jobs Conundrum: Let’s Borrow an Idea From the Environmentalists
The Obama administration could spur the creation of more jobs at charities and elsewhere by borrowing an idea that is popular in the environmental world.
By Lester M. Salamon
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How to Finance Obama’s Social-Innovation Fund
As White House officials wrestle with how to secure money from an increasingly tightfisted Congress for the social-innovation fund it approved as part of the new national-service law, they could look to the estimated $5-billion worth of warrants, or options to buy bank stock at set prices, that the…
By Lester M. Salamon
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How to Rally an Army of Nonprofit Volunteers
As President-elect Obama and members of Congress get to work on what promises to be the mother of all economic-recovery programs, much of the talk has focused on an expected vast infusion of cash into state and local governments for a variety of long-delayed public-works projects. Largely…
By Lester M. Salamon
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The Nonprofit World Must Stand Up for Itself
When Minnesota’s highest court denied tax-exempt status to a child-care center, it sent shudders throughout the nonprofit world. The Minnesota court said in December that it agreed with concerns raised by Minnesota government officials that the Under the Rainbow Child Care Center was not providing…
By Lester M. Salamon
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Charities Need More Investment Capital
Most people think of charities as fundamentally labor-intensive organizations that have little need for investment capital, the resource required to finance facilities, acquire equipment, and do long-range planning. Universities, hospitals, and large cultural institutions have long recognized the…
By Lester M. Salamon
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Nonprofit World Faces Many Dangers
American nonprofit organizations have exhibited enormous resilience in the face of an extraordinary array of financial, competitive, accountability, and legitimacy challenges over the past two decades. But the steps they have taken, while allowing them to survive and even to thrive, pose risks to…
By Lester M. Salamon
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Charities Shouldn’t Be Urged to Act Like Enron
The former senator Bill Bradley has recently confessed that his Princeton education was not worth anywhere near what he paid for it, that he was urging friends to cash out their retirement savings and distribute them to their children, and that the money he spent appealing to millions of New Jersey…
By Lester M. Salamon
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What Really Matters About September 11
For America’s charitable organizations, the months since September 11 have so far been alternately a time of celebration over the charitable response and hand-wringing over the potential consequences of this response for the rest of the nonprofit field. But it is now time for charities and…
By Lester M. Salamon
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