Charities Reach Advocates Via Cellphone
Text messagesing show promise as a tool for advocacy, according to a new report that looks at the results of six organizations’ mobile programs. The report was published by M+R Strategic Services, a consulting company in Washington, and MobileActive.org, a network of activists and nonprofit groups…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
American Diabetes Association, Gateway Division (St. Louis): Appointed Kristi Meyers Gallup, director of development at the Humane Society of Missouri, to be executive director. Belcourt Theatre (Nashville): Appointed Haylee Waddey Hall, director of development and outreach at Susan G. Komen for…
Nonprofit Groups Expect Financial Woes to Continue Even as Need for Services Grows
Nonprofit groups say 2010 may be even tougher for them financially than the past two years, according to a new study.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
A New York charity is using new technology to make city residents more aware of the local homelessness problems and to reach out to new donors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
As Haiti’s Rainy Season Begins, Relief Groups Work to Provide Shelter to Quake Victims
Nonprofit groups seek to provide temporary housing, based on lessons about what has worked in other disasters, and look ahead to the need to build permanent housing.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Barbara Dwyer Gunn, President, Seedco
A charity that seeks to find jobs for the needy has hired a chief executive with extensive government and nonprofit experience.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Theater Combines Fund Raising and Marketing Roles
A small theater in Tennessee has created a new job that combines marketing and fund raising.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Facebook Co-Founder Starts Philanthropic Social-Networking Site
Facebook co-founder hopes his new charity site, Jumo, will make it impossible for people to say they’d like to help but don’t know where or how to do so.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A N.Y. Charity Enlists Teenage Students to Help Document Their Overseas Work
New York City’s YMCA trained teenagers who participate in its global community-service trips to take photographs and videos of their experiences. Now the organization can offer donors and potential participants an inside view of how the trips work.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit CEOs Who Want For-Profit Salaries Should Work at For-Profit Companies
Exploring the difference between fair and excessive compensation for nonprofit leaders.
By ROSETTA THURMAN
Contributor
Kansas City Job Club Aims to Help Laid-Off Workers Switch Into the Nonprofit World
With so many companies laying off workers these days, more for-profit professionals want to work for nonprofit groups. In Kansas City, Nonprofit Connect’s Job Club offers not only a bridge for these potential new leaders but also a model for other cities and towns to adapt.
By ROSETTA THURMAN
Contributor
New President of the Woods Fund of Chicago Named; Other Personnel Changes in the Nonprofit World
America Scores (New York): Appointed Norma Barquet, executive vice president at the Girl Scouts of the USA (New York), to be chief executive officer. Ms. Barquet succeeds Paul Caccamo, who is now executive director of Up2Us, a national coalition of youth sports organizations. America Scores offers…
Patrick T. McCarthy, President, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Patrick T. McCarthy, a veteran Casey Foundation employee, has been named to lead the big Baltimore fund.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Nonprofit Boards Focus More on Evaluating Performance, Says Report
Nonprofit boards are increasingly scrutinizing their own performance and the work of their charities’ top leaders, a new study finds.
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Pay for Top College Fund Raisers Remains Flat, Says New Report
Salaries for college fund raisers were flat last year, a new study finds.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Is NAACP’s Roslyn Brock Really New Blood?
If all the hoopla about the NAACP’s appointment of Roslyn M. Brock as its new board chairwoman seems like déjà vu, that’s because it is.
By ROSETTA THURMAN
Contributor