How Nonprofits Build Successful Businesses
Hiring the right people, gathering sufficient capital, and setting benchmarks are essential when nonprofits start for-profit enterprises to advance their missions.
By Norah McVeigh
Contributor
Signaling Adherence to Standards Can Help Charities Earn Donors’ Trust
Failing to tell donors that a charity follows professional guidelines leaves the impression that anything goes.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
Podcast: Caring for Haiti’s Earthquake Victims
A university official who has been working as an interpreter at a Haiti hospital discusses the challenges facing people injured in the disaster.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
New Web Site Encourages Charities to Admit Errors
Engineers Without Borders Canada sets up a Web site to prod aid charities to publicize their mistakes.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
Five Reasons Board Leaders Should Have Term Limits
Nonprofit boards work more effectively when their chairs don’t serve indefinitely.
By Rick Moyers
Contributor
Podcast: Bringing Clean Water to Haiti
David McGinty, a director of Deep Springs International, discusses his nonprofit’s work to bring clean water to Haiti.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
How Nonprofits Can Avoid a Cash Crisis
Late payments from government agencies, grant makers, and other supporters can cause trouble, but it is possible to put precautions in place to avoid grave problems.
By Garvester Kelley
Contributor
A wrap-up of some of the most thoughtful blog postings from around the Web about Haiti on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
Helping Boards and Executives Understand Strategy
A new book, written by an academic with years of experience leading nonprofits, can help nonprofits steer clear of the traps that often cause problems in drafting strategic plans.
By RICK MOYERS
Contributor
Explaining the Not-So-Simple Truth About Charity
It’s in charities’ best interests to show on their Web sites a more realistic view of what aid projects are really like.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
Two Dozen Nonprofits Face Lawsuits Over Madoff Fraud
The trustee representing victims of Bernard Madoff’s fraud has filed more than two dozen lawsuits against foundations and charities that invested directly with Madoff and allegedly profited from the scheme. But to the relief of many charities, it appears that Irving Picard, the trustee, has decided…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
AIDS Foundation of Chicago: Appointed David Ernesto Munar, vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Mark Ishaug, who will become president and chief executive officer of AIDSUnited, a newly created organization in Washington resulting from the merger of theNational…
About Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization
About Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization
How Some of Today’s Nonprofits Got Their Start
Nonprofits were created in big numbers 100 years ago to influence an increasingly powerful government -- and to help European immigrants and rural residents build new bonds as they moved to big American cities.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
An Atlanta Community Fund Lends a Hand to Credit-Deprived Charities
A community foundation in Atlanta extends loans to strapped charities.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Women’s Charity Faces Down Terrorism and the Madoff Scam
Hadassah remains unbowed by deep investment losses but must now find a way to attract more young members.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor