Key Players in Fiscal-Cliff Tax Issues
How nonprofit leaders like Rev. Larry Snyder of Catholic Charities USA and Gloria Johnson-Cusack of Leadership 18 worked to influence the debate in Washington.
President Putin: Restore Openness to Nonprofit Involvement
A veteran American grant maker says punitive measures Russia has taken toward philanthropies and other foreign groups hinder progress and damage global relations.
Giffords, Bloomberg Step Up Gun-Control Fight
Former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords announced the formation Tuesday of a new organization to raise money and lobby for tougher gun laws, while a nonprofit group led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg began an advertising campaign on the issue, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Opinion: Charity Myths Color Many Donors’ Giving
Former NPR chief executive Ken Stern, author of a forthcoming book on charity operations, deconstructs what he characterizes as five false notions about giving in a Washington Post opinion article.
Rockefeller’s Political Grant Wastes Money
The foundation’s effort to insert itself into the mayor’s race and take the side of businesses undermines its mission to help the neediest citizens.
By PABLO EISENBERG
Contributor
Social-Service Workers Should Unite to Prevent Another Newtown
If we deployed charities’ expertise in keeping isolated and disturbed kids from violence, we might not have to rely solely on new gun-control laws or improved school safety.
By Irv Katz
Contributor
Opinion: How the Rich Do Charity Wrong
Many wealthy donors get their philanthropy “spectacularly wrong” by meddling with recipient charities, spending heavily on foundations, and hungering more for credit than for social good, Reuters economic columnist Felix Salmon writes.
Numbers and data are influencing how people in the nonprofit world think and talk.
By Lucy Bernholz
Contributor
We Can’t Pass Up This Chance to End Violence
The shooting of 20 young children has increased the urgency for foundations to join forces with others in society to push for common-sense changes in gun laws.
By Ellen Alberding
Contributor
Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings?
If grant makers don’t learn to take action faster amid a national crisis, they risk becoming irrelevant.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor