Policy Change Means Some Get More Relief
Last year’s decision to ease the federal policy on providing disaster relief has created a disparity in the amount of money given to the families of those killed in last year’s terrorist attacks, according to an official at the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Following concern about slow…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Poet’s Winding Path Leads to a Job as a Foundation President
Edward Hirsch, a prize-winning poet and the beneficiary of prodigious amounts of philanthropic support, will become president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in January. Mr. Hirsch has been awarded a “genius” fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the…
By DAVID WHELAN
Contributor
Planning a Year of Direct-Mail Appeals
Profitable Direct Mail Appeals: Planning, Executing, and Maximizing Results urges nonprofit organizations to plan their entire year of direct-mail appeals in advance, as opposed to taking the “decide as you go” approach. When finished, the yearly plan will include what mailing lists should be used…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Crafting an Attention-Grabbing Policy Report
The Big Idea: a Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Effective Policy Reports, by Suri Duitch, Kathleen McGowan, and Carl Vogel, walks through the process of creating an attention-grabbing policy report, describing each step: conducting the research, writing it, and releasing the report, or “selling,”…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Developing Low-Cost Marketing-Research Techniques
Marketing Research That Won’t Break the Bank: a Practical Guide to Getting the Information You Need
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
The Changing Landscape of Humanitarian Aid
The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas & Discoveries
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Decisions on Election Activity Meet With Mixed Reactions
Washington The Federal Election Commission has stepped back from regulating charities’ political advertising, leaving it to the Internal Revenue Service to decide whether such ads violate the federal ban on electioneering by charities. At the same time, an effort in Congress to allow churches to…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Bits: A Software Site Shuts Down; Popular Online Forum Is Revived; and iGive Gifts Top $1-Billion
The Nonprofit Software Index, a Web site that described software programs designed for charities, shut down last month “due to resource constraints.” The site had been maintained by William A. Kleintop, a professor at Seton Hall University. Marshall M. Burkes, Internet services administrator at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Source of Technology Help
Community technology centers, which originally were founded to provide technology access to people in low-income areas, have started to provide technology assistance to local nonprofit organizations, according to a new report published by the Community Technology Centers’ Network, in Cambridge,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundation Uses Internet to Help Hunger Groups
Alan Shawn Feinstein says that he will donate $5 to anti-hunger groups for each person who visits his foundation’s Help the Hungry Web site by the end of the year, up to a total of $1-million. Since 1998 the Feinstein Foundation, in Cranston, R.I., has given away $1-million each year to anti-hunger…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor