Steps to Building a Collaborative Nonprofit Community
Three ways the Centre for Social Innovation, in New York, helps nonprofit organizations and social entrepreneurs cross-pollinate their ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Minnesota Public Radio gets more than $5-million a year from online donors who allow regular withdrawals from their bank accounts or charges on their credit cards.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Aid Charity Helps Workers Practice Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse recruited 500 volunteers to simulate what would happen if an earthquake struck.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Program-Related Investments Lost Steam in the Bad Economy
Low-cost loans and other financial tools that advance a grant maker’s mission grew from 1990 until the mid-2000s but dropped off after the recession started, a study found.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Foundation Risks All of Its Endowment on Creating Jobs
The F.B. Heron Foundation has attracted attention with its effort to put all of its investments and grants into projects and companies that fight poverty.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Approach to Giving Allows Heron Wider Array of Options
As the fund moves its $274-million endowment into impact investments, its most controversial approach is its shift way from a strict asset-allocation plan.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
AmeriCares Leader Expanded Health Care to the Uninsured at Home and Overseas
Curt Welling, who is stepping down as head of AmeriCares, expanded the charity’s work with grass-roots groups abroad and with American clinics serving the uninsured.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofits That Use Data Well Think It Through Carefully and Actively Involve Employees
As nonprofit seek to do a better job measuring their results, experts say it’s important to look at programs that are struggling—not just those that work well.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Resources to Help Nonprofits Use Data
An array of information is available to help groups learn to measure results.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Calif. Charity Measures Progress All Year to Fix Problems Early and Impress Donors
First Place for Youth credits its growth—from a $2-million charity to one with an $11-million budget—to its system of collecting data.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor