Tips to Help Board Members Better Understand Their Fiduciary Duties
VOLUNTEERISM By Lynn O’Shaughnessy The executive who used to prepare the financial reports for Meet the Composer, a nonprofit arts organization in ALSO SEE:Resources for More Information on Fiduciary Responsibilities New York, always crammed the documents with data. The avalanche of numbers,…
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy
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Online Surveys Help Charities Save Time and Money
TOOLS AND TRAINING By Marilyn Dickey For members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, getting the results of the group’s survey of fund raisers’ ALSO SEE:Article: Resources and Tips for Conducting Online Surveys salaries and benefits is one of the most valued perks of membership in the…
By Marilyn Dickey
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Resources and Tips for Conducting Online Surveys
TOOLS AND TRAINING Choosing a site to do a Web survey can be a matter of trial and error. Fortunately, though, most sites make that process easy by allowing free trials — usually either ALSO SEE:Article: Online Surveys Help Charities Save Time and Money by offering access for a fixed period at no…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
After-School All-Stars of New York: Appointed Rosemarie Dackerman, executive director of the USO of Metropolitan New York, to be executive director. Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (Frederick, Md.): Appointed Steve Brodie, a regional specialist at MetLife, in Harrisburg, Pa., and a former…
Following are summaries of recent reports by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. This private group reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The alliance does not approve or disapprove of charities, and urges potential donors…
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Advocacy. The Gleitsman Foundation (Malibu, Calif.) has selected Ron Grzywinski and Mary Houghton, co-founders of the ShoreBank Corporation of Chicago, and Julie…
Shaking Up One of the Nation’s Oldest Charities
EXIT INTERVIEWWhen Kenneth L. Gladish began his tenure as chief executive officer at the YMCA of the USA in February 2000, he made it clear that ALSO SEE: BIOGRAPHY: About Kenneth L. Gladish he did not plan to stay in the post for the remainder of his career. At the time, Mr. Gladish was 47, and…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Watchdog Says Group Engaged in Politics
TAX WATCHBy Elizabeth SchwinnCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, has asked the IRS to investigate a religious organization that it says has become involved in partisan politics. The watchdog group says it was concerned that the Pennsylvania Pastors Network…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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NAACP Asks Tax Agency to Speed Up Inquiry
TAX WATCHBy Elizabeth SchwinnThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has been the subject of a federal tax investigation for a year and a half, wants the government to either proceed quickly with its audit of the civil-rights organization — or drop it entirely. The…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Relief Groups Join Forces to Review Tsunami Efforts
Washington Former President Bill Clinton announced last week that nine U.S. international aid groups will work together on a six-month review of ways to make global relief efforts more effective, drawing on lessons learned from the massive response to the South Asian tsunamis. Mr. Clinton, who is…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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How to Prevent Ex-Convicts From Returning to Crime
NEW BOOKS When the Gates Open: A National Response to the Prisoner Reentry Crisis, by Joshua Good and Pamela Sherrid, reports on Public/Private Ventures’ Ready4Work program, which enlists religious organizations and other charities to help the 750,000 people released from prisons each year.…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Ways in Which Social-Change Groups Can Raise Money
NEW BOOKS Promising Practices in Revenue Generation for Community Organizing, by Sandy O’Donnell, Jane Beckett, and Jean Rudd, analyzes how big a role grant makers and other sources of money play in supporting advocacy and social-change organizations. It reports on a survey’s findings that 62.7…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
A Report on Foundation Giving in Los Angeles
NEW BOOKS Foundations for Los Angeles?: An Analysis of the Scale, Scope and Reach of Foundation Philanthropy in Los Angeles County, by James M. Ferris, Rachel Potter, and Michael Tuerpe, examines the Los Angeles charities that received grant money from local foundations from 1992 to 2002. The…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Bits: Organizers’ Collaborative Preps Grassroots Use of Technology Conference
The Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is holding a conference on May 31 about information technology for nonprofit organizations. Participants can choose one of two workshops: “Technology Planning and Database Fundamentals” or “eAdvocacy and…
By Leah Kerkman
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Internet Address Fetches $200,000 Donation
The Boston Foundation received an unlikely gift from Tom Bird, a Boston-area entrepreneur: the domain name farm.com. The gift ended up bringing in $200,000 for the foundation when it sold the name to Pets United, an online pet-supplies company. Roger Collins, president of Afternic.com, which…
By Leah Kerkman
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Web Site for Volunteers Focuses on Disaster Aid
Learning from the difficulties of coordinating the activities of volunteers following Hurricane Katrina, the Points of Light Foundation, in Washington, announced plans for a new Web site to match volunteers with appropriate tasks following national disasters. The site, which will become available…
By Leah Kerkman
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