Small Foundations Have a Story Worth Telling
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Perhaps because I have worked at philanthropy in the environmental-conservation and public-policy arena for 30 years, and because our foundation is pretty small ($19-million), I lament Joel Fleishman’s focus on too few, too large, and too general foundations to…
Charities Are Paying the Terrible Price of War
Nonprofit organizations are scrambling for charitable dollars because recent experience has taught them not to depend on government money to solve public problems. It seems the money just isn’t there. Or is it? Government does manage to finance what it wants to do, but sometimes with trade-offs.…
By MARK ROSENMAN
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A Guide to Overhauling a Weak Grant Proposal
NEW BOOKS Grant Proposal Makeover: Transform Your Request From No to Yes
By Anne W. Howard
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Charities Continue to Face Scrutiny From the Senate
By Suzanne PerryCharities and foundations, which have devoted much energy in recent years to defending their organizations from charges of wrongdoing, and ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Courting the New Congress to trying to persuade Congress not to impose onerous new regulations, are hoping for a friendlier…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Opinion: ‘Digital Dumpster-Diving’ for Charity Salaries
Opinion: How to find information about nonprofit salaries online
How Greenpeace Solicits Donors
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: I read the article “The Vanishing Donor” (November 23, 2006) with considerable disappointment. This article provides an inaccurate impression of Greenpeace’s fund-raising priorities based on one donor’s negative experience of Greenpeace direct mail several years…
Gender Stereotyping Was Not Appropriate
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: In the article The Chronicle published about Kathryn Wolford, the former head of Lutheran World Relief who is now president of the McKnight Foundation (“An International-Aid Leader Takes Over as Head of a Big Foundation,” December 7, 2006), she was described as a…
Abolition of the Estate Tax Would Harm Giving
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: A major issue in recent debates over the estate tax has been the effect on charitable giving of repealing or sharply reducing the tax. According to studies by the Congressional Budget Office, the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, and…
How Charities Can Recruit Diverse Employees
As nonprofit organizations deal with a massive wave of turnover — prompted in large part by the ALSO SEE:LIVE DISCUSSION: Read the transcript of a live online discussion with Michael Watson, one of the top human-resources executive at the Girl Scouts of the USA about how nonprofit groups can…
By MICHAEL WATSON
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