Video Shows Nonprofit World’s Impact
A charity leader in Seattle has assembled a short video detailing the economic value of the nonprofit world.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Technology Grants Focus on Local Efforts
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2.2-million for projects that use technology to encourage people to get involved in local issues.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Creates Software Business
Family Services of Greater Houston makes money from a data system it created to meet its own needs.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Liberace Museum, in Las Vegas, which housed the showy musician’s costumes, cars, pianos, and other memorabilia, will close on October 17, after 31 years of operation, writes the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Troubled Hospital Group Implements More Layoffs
The troubled Northeast Hospital Corporation, a nonprofit healthcare system in Beverly, Mass., has laid off seven employees, including four nurses, at its Addison Gilbert Hospital, reports the Boston Globe.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Countries Rank in Giving and Volunteering
Rankings of the percentage of the population who have given money, volunteered time, or helped a stranger from CAFAmerica.
Volunteers Are More Likely to Get Involved in Civic Activities
A new report shows the connections between volunteering and other aspects of public life.
Does Nonprofit Status Offer the Best Way to Achieve Your Mission?
Why organizations that want to grow might not want a nonprofit structure.
By Kristin Giantris
Contributor
CARE Trustee Takes Leave Over Israeli Settlements
Richard A. Marin, chief executive of an investment firm, voluntarily stepped aside from his board post after questions were raised about his employer’s ties to companies that have worked to promote Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Two Florida Hospital Systems Announce Merger
Adventist Health System, in Winter Park, Fla., and University Community Health, in Tampa, have merged to form one health-care entity, according to the Orlando Business Journal.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Purpose Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Nonprofits won’t attract the talent they need unless they do more to spur innovative cultures and pay employees better wages.
By Anne Mai Bertelsen
Contributor
The Makeup of Top Fund Raisers: By Organization Type
A look at the diversity of fund raisers at nonprofit groups in selected causes.
Diversity and Fund Raising: By The Numbers
A look at the makeup of minorities and women in top fund-raising jobs.
Annual Report Gets Video-Game Feel
VolunteerMatch saved $12,000 taking its annual report online in an unusual presentation that makes reading the report feel like playing a video game. The San Francisco charity used a new technology tool called Prezi to give the report zoom effects for text and photos. “It makes it so much easier to…
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Women and Minorities Lag in Appointments to Top Fund-Raising Jobs
Slightly more than half of the top fund-raising jobs at the nation’s biggest charities are held by women, a Chronicle study finds, even though a far bigger share of the fund-raising field is female.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
The Colorado Trust Appoints New President; Other Personnel Moves in the Nonprofit World
American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia): Appointed Shan Cretin, director of its Pacific Southwest region, based in Los Angeles, to be general secretary, the organization’s top job. American Humane Association (Denver): Appointed Robin Ganzert, deputy director of philanthropic services at…