October 1, 2009
How Trustees Can Help: Ideas from a Board Chairman
With its programs supported by an annual appropriation from Congress, the nonprofit United States Institute of Peace has not historically depended on the largess of private donors.
But that changed a few years ago, when the Washington think tank began to plan a new headquarters building. The group determined that it would need $87-million beyond what the government could provide.
Fund raising wasn't "in the culture of the organization," says Robin West, the organization's
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