To the Editor: Your article on endowments (“Making Dollars and Sense,” December 11) offers a comprehensive view of the issues, challenges, and rewards of building an endowment. On a few points, however, I found the phrasing to be somewhat imprecise, thus possibly creating inaccurate impressions…
What Motivates Americans to Volunteer?
By Leslie Lenkowsky December’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that 4 million more people had volunteered in 2003 than in the previous year was encouraging news for the Bush administration. Starting with his inaugural address in January 2001, and continuing in his State of the Union…
Rural Grantees Not Hard to Find
To the Editor: We at the Duke Endowment were pleased to see The Chronicle’s article on rural philanthropy (“Rural Areas Reach Out to Donors,” December 11) and interested to read about foundations that are turning their attention to these often-neglected communities. However, as a foundation that…
Article on California Wage Law Ignored Other Views
To the Editor: I was extremely disheartened by the reaction of the executive director of the California Association of Nonprofits to the recent voter-approved ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage in San Francisco (“San Francisco Charities Must Increase Payments to Low-Wage Workers,”…
Let’s Make Sure Worthy Groups Get Aid
Now that American donors are safely past the end-of-year fund-raising season, it is a good time to make New Year’s resolutions about giving well in 2004. The greatest challenge facing the nonprofit world today is improving the allocation of resources. Americans give more than $200-billion a year,…
By David Bornstein
Contributor
Fund Raising and Design for Capital Projects
Capital Campaigns from the Ground Up: How Nonprofits Can Have the Buildings of Their Dreams
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Politics and the Role of Charities
To the Editor: Thank you so much for including the opinion article “Nonprofit Groups Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Lobby” and Rick Cohen’s excellent piece “House Leader Misuses Charity for Partisan Goals” in the November 27 issue. Talk about a juxtaposition of values and ideals. I work for a nonprofit…
A Corporate Mentality in Charity Boardrooms? Hey, Bring It On
By Donald W. Kramer and Vicki W. Kramer MEMORANDUM
Change in Pew’s Structure Is in the Public Interest
To the Editor: Healthy debate and discourse are cornerstones of our democracy, but so is getting it right with accurate and factual information. In his recent op-ed in The Chronicle (“Pew’s Shift to Charity Status Goes Against What Is Best for the Public,” December 11), Pablo Eisenberg is certainly…