Understanding How Donors Choose: a Key to Fund-Raising Success
Fund raisers often focus on knowing everything they can about a donor’s background -- but a new book says that what really matters is understanding how donors make choices.
By Holly Hall
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Do Charities in Haiti Need a Pooled Fund? Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
Do charities in Haiti need a pooled fund overseen by the government? Read this and more in Friday’s roundup of the best online postings about the nonprofit world.
By Ian Wilhelm
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How to Make a Nonprofit Merger Work, Plus More: Wednesday’s Roundup
How to make a nonprofit merger work? Read this and more in Wednesday’s roundup of the best online postings about the nonprofit world.
By Ian Wilhelm
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Five Principles for Smart Giving to Support Haiti’s Recovery
Nearly a month after the Haiti catastrophe, more than $774-million has been donated, a Chronicle tally finds. Now donors should focus their giving on organizations that have serious long-term plans for aiding the country, say two philanthropy experts who offer four other steps for making wise donations.
By REGINE WEBSTER
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FBI Warns About Direct-Mail Senior ‘Census’
Federal investigators have raised concerns about an advocacy group’s “Census of Senior Citizens,” a mass mailing that seeks opinions and donations from elderly Americans, reports The Kansas City Star.
More Than Money, a Lack of Research Hampers Nonprofit Innovation
The Obama administration’s Social Innovation Fund — and many wealthy donors — have misdiagnosed the problem facing philanthropy. It’s not that effective groups lack money but that promising organizations don’t have the funds or tools they need to figure out how to make their programs work better.
By SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
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Nonprofit Advocacy Not Necessarily a Loser in Supreme Court Election Ruling
The Supreme Court’s ruling offers new possibilities for nonprofit groups to expand their political activities.
By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
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Supreme Court Ruling Raises Concerns for Nonprofit Advocacy Groups
The Supreme Court’s decision in a campaign-finance case drew objections from many charity watchdog groups concerned that it will allow businesses to draw out the voices of charities. But some legal experts say the decision also could give charities new leeway to get involved in political debates.
By SUZANNE PERRY
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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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Information, Please? A Dearth of Data Hides Nonprofit World’s Impact
Nonprofit groups and government need to work together to produce up-to-date research to help policy makers decide how best to aid America’s charities.
By CINTHIA SCHUMAN
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