What It Means to Use Endowment Money Wisely
Understanding how the laws governing endowments work.
Let’s Start a Loan Fund to Keep Social-Services Groups in Business
As states miss charity payments, it is time to create a loan fund ro help cash-strapped organizations.
By Diana Aviv and NEIL NICOLL
Opinion: Charity Executives See Different Side of Business Travel
Opinion: Charity executives see different site of business travel
IRS Clarifies Lobbying Rules for Community Foundations
IRS clarifies lobbying rules for community foundations
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Innovative Nonprofit Programs Need Rigorous, Conclusive Evaluation
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: Although we endorse Lisbeth Schorr’s call for a broad array of evaluation techniques to identify promising social programs (“To Judge What Will Help Society’s Neediest, Let’s Use a Broad Array of Evaluation Techniques,” Opinion, August 20), we believe that her…
How Much Information Should Foundations Disclose?
Foundations should divulge more about themselves.
By William F. McCalpin
Contributor
Providing the Capital Organizations Need to Run and Grow
Why we must respect philanthropists who support problem solvers -- but do not themselves try to solve problems.
By SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Contributor
‘Transformative Leadership’ Employs Spirituality for Social Change
Creative leaders can turn old antagonisms into healthier relationships.
By MICHAEL EDWARDS
Contributor
Appreciating Irving Kristol’s Impact on Philanthropy
Irving Kristol, the writer, editor, and publisher who died Friday at the age of 89, will be best remembered as the intellectual “godfather” of “neoconservatism,” a set of ideas many credit with reviving the Republican Party in the 1980s, and shaping public debate over issues as far apart as welfare…
By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Contributor
Overhead Is Overrated in Financial Reporting
Grant makers and others should stop worrying about how much charities spend on overhead.
By Kennard T. Wing
Contributor