About Fund Raising
Exploring the Science of Donors’ Decision Making 
Fund raisers often focus on knowing everything they can about a donor's background -- but a new book says that what really matters is understanding how donors make choices.
Charities Keep Fund Raising as Haiti’s Needs Mount
American charities have raised more than three-quarters of a billion dollars for Haiti relief but plan to seek far more as they turn to the long-term challenges ahead.
Haiti Recovery: How Much Charities Have Raised and Spent
Lawsuits Over University’s Fund-Raising Plan Raise Concerns
A growing number of lawsuits -- and changes caused by the economy -- are prompting new questions for charities that use life insurance to raise money.
About Managing
Health Charity Faces Challenge of Expansion
Partners in Health, a Boston charity with a long history in Haiti, now tackles the challenge of how to wisely spend the outpouring of donations it received after the...
Earthquake Spurs Community Funds to Step Up Aid to Haitians in the United States
Community foundations have started collecting money to help local Haitian immigrants - and for relief efforts in Haiti.
Web Sites Ask Public to Monitor Relief Efforts in Haiti
A growing number of Web sites hope to enlist Haitians, aid workers, and others to assess how well charities provide aid to the earthquake-ravaged country.
Fighting for State Aid, Charities Learn to Lobby
As state aid gets harder to find, charities are learning to build ties to lawmakers and become stronger public advocates.
Charity Lobbying: Tips for Success
Antipoverty Group Adds Role of Investigative Reporter
A New York antipoverty group adds investigative reporting to its social-services and advocacy roles.
Tax Break Might Add 18,000 Charity Jobs
A tax credit proposed as part of a Senate jobs bill could provide $1-billion in savings to nonprofit groups and create thousands of new jobs.
IRS Releases Revised Charity Tax Form
The Internal Revenue Service has made final its 2009 Form 990 informational tax return that charities will file this year or next.
About Giving
Foundations Pour Millions Into Nonprofit Census Programs
As the 2010 census is about to begin, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into nonprofit efforts to ensure that poor people, minorities, and others are included fully...
How Foundations Are Seeking to Improve the Accuracy of the 2010 Census: a Sampling of New Grants
Nonprofit Groups Scramble to Help Cities and States Gather Census Data
Foundations and nonprofit groups are moving quickly to help money-strapped governments do all they can to guarantee an accurate census count.
Liberia’s Foundation-Supported Philanthropy Agency Offers Model
A group of American foundations has financed a government office in Liberia that works to coordinate philanthropic efforts in the African country.
Nonprofit Technology Guide
For More and More Charities, There's an App for That
More charities are developing applications for Apple's iPhone — and reaching more potential supporters in the process.
Technology Talent Gets Easier to Find
In a soft job market, charities are seeing a wealth of untapped talent for tech jobs. But will those new hires stay put once the economy thaws?
Hiring Technology Workers: Tips From Experts
A Technology Adviser Gets a Lesson in Online Security
A Bay Area technology organization tells what it learned about online security for charities after its site was hacked.
Opinion
Uncle Sam Needs to Help State Charity Watchdogs
The federal government could do much to improve charity oversight by giving more support to state attorneys general.
IRS Needs More Money to Monitor Charities
As the nonprofit world expands, the Internal Revenue Service needs more money and more employees to thwart charity abuses.
Big Philanthropy Should Fear Populist Fervor
As populism grows more intense, American philanthropy can expect a new round of criticism from both the right and the left.
Donors need to exercise careful oversight of money they put into donor-advised funds, as recent legal squabbles demonstrate.
Nearly a month after the Haiti catastrophe, more than $774-million has been donated, a...
How to determine whether a charity is making a difference -- or simply has promising ideas.
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