Fund-Raising and Privacy Issues
To the Editor: Your article on the use of the new product Planned Gift Prospector (“Fund Raisers Debate a Product That Monitors Viewing Habits,” August 21) represented the nature of the initial debate, but not where the more important discussion should lead. From the invention of written language,…
Virtual Office Creates Actual Efficiencies
A fellow nonprofit manager is walking around the office space we are about to give up. I see the look in her eyes. It is the abject fear of signing a five-year lease for more than 2,500 square feet of office space in Washington. I understand that fear all too well. The space will run her…
By Joshua Horwitz
Contributor
Philanthropy Must Demonstrate Why Community Organizing Matters
The presidential race has made the nature and role of community organizing and civic engagement a central topic of public discourse. During the campaign, some people have suggested that community organizing does not entail significant responsibilities or relevant experience for government service.…
By LAWRENCE OTTINGER
Contributor
Big Bequest to Aid Animals Will Help Society
To the Editor: Society is often quick to disparage charitable donations to animal charities as being eccentric at best, misplaced at worst, as your columnist Leslie Lenkowsky noted in your opinion section (“Should a Big Bequest Go to the Dogs?,” August 21). Recent criticism of the proposed Leona…
A Key Lesson Business Can Teach Charities
The woman advancing from the back of the room was irate. She wended her way through the tables, strode to the front, and slapped a legal pad onto the table next to me. Then she stalked out — not 30 minutes after the start of my seminar about nonprofit organizations that create business ventures to…
By Jerr Boschee
Contributor
Memoir Tells How Drug Dealer Became a Humanitarian Worker
NEW BOOKS Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf
By Cassie J. Moore
Contributor
Campaigning for Charity: an Interview With Bill Clinton
In the almost eight years since he left the White House, the former president Bill Clinton has become a major force in the nonprofit world — and his philanthropic ambitions continue to grow. The William J. Clinton Foundation, in New York, has expanded from a single office in Harlem into a global…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Opinion: 9/11 Fund Head Opposes Government Payouts to Future Victims
Opinion: 9/11 fund head opposes payouts to future victims
Conservative Editorial Attacks Public-Service Chairty
Public-service charity responds to attacks by conservative newspaper
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Opinion: Examining Obama’s Plan to Help Religious Groups
Opinion: Examining Obama’s plan to aid religious groups