Calculating the Costs to Government of Helping the Homeless
Financial Implications of Public Interventions on Behalf of a Chronically Homeless Family, by Ellen Hart-Shegos, calculates the price of government assistance for a homeless family in Minneapolis from 1991 to 1999. The study tracks the costs of child care, housing, health care, substance-abuse…
Advice on Managing Nonprofit Groups
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management
Memoirs of a Young Social Entrepreneur
One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way
N.Y. Children’s Shelter Accused of Misusing Funds
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNNew York’s attorney general is investigating charges of financial mismanagement at Hale House Center, a Harlem children’s shelter. Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer named a six-member interim board to oversee the organization, and he subpoenaed its financial records after the…
Making Weddings Into Charitable Events
By NICOLE WALLACEAt a time when engaged couples can post online gift registries with Tiffany & Company, Crate and Barrel, and even the camping store REI, a new Web site is encouraging couples to think about how they can incorporate giving into their wedding plans. MarriedForGood.com profiles…
Multimillion-Dollar Gift Pledged Online
By NICOLE WALLACEA Baltimore lawyer has pledged $2.5-million to United Cerebral Palsy over four years -- and he plans to donate the entire amount through the organization’s Web site. On May 15 at the National Press Club, in Washington, Stephen L. Snyder used his credit card to make the first…
Online Gifts Boost Comics’ Charity Act
By NICOLE WALLACEA charity in the United Kingdom founded by comedians combined star power, whimsy, and a good cause to raise £50-million, or more than $70-million -- with £3.6-million, or more than $5-million, coming in online. Every two years, as part of its Red Nose Day campaign, Comic Relief…
Theater Survey Indicates Improved Financial Health
Nearly 70 percent of nonprofit theaters that responded to a survey operated in the black last year, up from 62 percent in 1999, a new report says. ALSO SEE: Nonprofit Theaters: a Statistical Profile The report by the Theatre Communications Group, a New York organization that represents nonprofit…
Fighting Poverty: an Excerpt of a Speech by President Bush
Following is an excerpt from a speech President Bush delivered on the role of philanthropy ALSO SEE:Bush Decries Level of Corporate Giving to Faith Groups and government in fighting poverty. He spoke at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Notre Dame:Notre Dame, as a Catholic university,…
How Pay for Men and Women Differs in Senior Charity Jobs
ALSO SEE:Unbalanced Pay Scales Chief Executive Officer Budget Female Male Average More than $50-million $217,175 $320,263 $307,269 $25-million to $49.9-million $163,664 $214,091 $204,243 $10-million to $24.9-million $114,372 $155,990 $145,703 $5-million to $9.9-million $93,054 $121,731 $112,703…