Bankrupt N.Y. Charity’s Ex-CEO Seeking $1.2 Million Payout
Gail Magaliff, the former chief executive of FEGS Health and Human Services, is seeking deferred compensation as part of the bankruptcy proceeding the shuttering New York City nonprofit launched a few months after her departure, The New York Times writes.
Muscular Dystrophy Association Drops Storied Telethon
Citing "the new realities of television viewing and philanthropic giving,” the charity announced Friday that it is ending its tradition of televised fundraising epitomized by the iconic annual Labor Day telethon long hosted by Jerry Lewis, USA Today and the Associated Press report.
Charity Navigator Confronts Its Critics as It Seeks to Expand
Nonprofit leaders say the watchdog puts too much emphasis on financials, penalizes charities that aren’t growing, and doesn’t count work done by volunteers.
By Suzanne Perry
Contributor
How Nonprofit Leaders Would Fix Charity Navigator
The watchdog group responds to six wide-ranging suggestions for improvement.
Veterans Group Fights Back at Watchdog Ratings
Steven Nardizzi, co-founder of the Wounded Warrior Project, says charity evaluators’ systems are flawed and ineffective.
By Suzanne Perry
Contributor
You Need Money for Overhead? ‘Oh, Boohoohoo!’
Nancy Lawton, a retired federal government auditor, steers her gifts to groups that get top ratings from Charity Navigator.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Rachel Micah Jones’s small charity is helping laborers fight back online against exploitation.
By Edward Ericson Jr.
Contributor
Take-Action Buttons Turn News Readers Into Activists
Foundations and other organizations are supporting creative efforts that make it easy for journalists to steer people to charities worth supporting.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Capital Ideas, Powerful Impact
As it winds down operations, Atlantic Philanthropies commissioned photographers to document its legacy.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
It hurts everyone when foundations dole out strict one-year grants hoping to wean nonprofits off their support.
The group’s system for making short-term internal loans while it waits for pledges to come through helps it fulfill needs as they arise.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Fundraising Trends to Watch
Improvements in mobile payment system plus the rise of crowdfunding are among key changes that could spur online fundraising.
Pay attention to mobile devices, match your online and offline design, and more advice from organizations seeing success.
Questions nonprofits and foundations choose not to ask.
By J. McCray and Antony Bugg-Levine
Clinton Foundation Doesn’t Pay All Interns
Despite Hillary Clinton’s speaking out against the practice of offering unpaid internships, most of the Clinton Foundation’s interns are volunteers, The Daily Beast reports.
People: New Endowed Chair in the Study of Women Donors
Debra Mesch, a noted scholar on the subject, will the take position at Indiana University’s Lilly School.
By anais.strickland
Contributor