Independent Sector Already Being Heard
To the Editor: For about 12 years I have worked at membership-based advocacy nonprofit groups at the state level. I didn’t realize that Independent Sector had a reputation for being a subdued participant in nonprofit management (“Determined to Raise Its Voice,” October 19). In fact, the view from…
Nonprofit Leaders Must Help to Restore the Nation’s Democratic Principles
By MARK ROSENMANOur democracy is in trouble, well beyond the contested outcome of the presidential election, and nonprofit leaders are partly to blame. The nonprofit world has failed to demand that the nation’s broken system of campaign financing be fixed, and it has fallen down in its duty to…
By MARK ROSENMAN
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A Failure to Understand the Role of Faith at Religious Charities
To the Editor: While agreeing with the headline “Religious Charities Can’t Do It All” (My View, November 2), I was dismayed to find that the commentary by Joel Schwartz presented a narrow and, as a consequence, inaccurate presentation of faith-based organizations. In contrast to this commentary,…
A Wrong Turn for Catholic Charities
By BRIAN C. ANDERSONAs policymakers rediscover the power of faith-based institutions to rescue the down-and-out, one would think that Catholic Charities USA would be the perfect model. But rather than trying to promote traditional values and God-fearing behavior, Catholic Charities -- and the same…
By Brian C. Anderson
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Learning About Donors’ Expectations: a Guide to Improving Fund Raising
Listening to Your Donors: The Nonprofit’s Practical Guide to Designing and Conducting Surveys
By Gwen A. Williamson
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Principles Aimed at Guiding States
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: The opinion piece by Henry Goldstein, “Charity Regulation Should Focus on Scam Artists” (October 5), requires a response to help set the record straight. The board of directors of the National Association of State Charity Officials released a draft of the…
Columnist Misquoted Welfare Paper
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: Your recent opinion column by Leslie Lenkowsky makes an important argument about the need for funders to remain open-minded in the forthcoming national debate on the reauthorization of the 1996 welfare-reform law that replaced Aid to Families with Dependent…
New Welfare Law Has Failed to Help the Poor
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTo the Editor: Professor Leslie Lenkowsky of Indiana University claims that “the progress that the poor have been making” in today’s economy is due to welfare reform, which “has not been the catastrophe its critics feared.” (“Revised Welfare System Calls for New Approach by…
Technology Elite Have Education Mission
By DINESH D’SOUZAIn past eras, the wealthy classes often dedicated themselves to large social objectives, whether it was teaching piety and bourgeois values to the poor in Victorian England or teaching trades to newly freed slaves in the American South. Today’s technology elite should adopt a…
By Dinesh D’Souza
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Court Rules Bequest Qualifies for Charity Break
By GRANT WILLIAMSA federal appeals court has decided that the I.R.S. was wrong to deny a charitable-contribution deduction to an estate after a controversy over exactly what a now-deceased Indiana man intended to do for charity. As he neared death, Kenneth E. Starkey signed a will that left a…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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