About Managing
Charitable Deduction Under Scrutiny 
New proposals to trim the federal debt take aim at the tax breaks donors receive for their gifts.
Going Out of Business, Deliberately
Nonprofit groups that set time limits on their operations find they can often accomplish more than groups that plan to exist forever.
Congress and Charities: What to Expect
The November elections resulted in shifting roles for the lawmakers who will have the biggest influence on issues of importance to nonprofits.
Boards Given Poor Marks on Fund-Raising and Diversity Efforts
A new study of nonprofit boards asked both chief executives and trustees to rate their strengths and weaknesses.
A Cleveland Charity Trains the Poor to Fight for Themselves
A grass-roots Ohio charity helps homeowners avoid foreclosure and improve their neighborhoods thanks to tough tactics and a remarkable 72-year-old leader.
Obama Clarifies Rules on Religious Charities
New White House guidelines spelling out how faith groups can get government aid for social-service program avoid controversial hiring issue.
Making Volunteering a Family Affair
More and more organizations are seeking ways to involve parents and children in charity work, often as a way to stretch resources in tough times.
New Charity Teaches Kids to Help Others
A $5-million gift from Hasbro Children's Fund jump-starts a new effort to help kids volunteer.
Legacies: Jule Sugarman, Architect of Head Start
Jule Sugarman played a prime role in helping Head Start become a powerful part of the Great Society.
New Titles: National Christian Foundation
Bill Williams was named to lead the National Christian Foundation, an organization that has been growing so fast, it now needs someone to serve as chief executive.
New on the Job: Enrique Ball, Public Allies
A fund raiser for international causes now heads the development efforts of a group that trains young people to become nonprofit leaders.
Charity and Sports League Team Up to Raise Money
A fund-raising campaign between the National Basketball Association and a campaign to provide anti-malaria nets wins a public-relations prize.
About Technology
Two Charities Test $25 Text-Message Gifts
A pair of charities test $25 text-message fund raising. (Tech)
Housing Group Debuts Mortgage System
Cellphone Learning Program Wins Award
About Fund Raising
Charities Try New Tactics in Holiday Season
Nonprofits are using technology in new ways and enlisting their volunteers and supporters to help raise money.
A Mystery Solicitation
Spray-painted numbers popping up in two big cities are designed to make donors curious about what they mean -- and spur contributions to a children's charity.
Texas Food Bank Runs Virtual Food Drive
Donors to an antihunger charity in Austin, Tex., can fill up an online shopping cart telling them how much it costs to pay for milk, eggs, and other necessities.
Poor Economy Drives Up Fund-Raising Costs for Hospitals
With donations on the decline, groups are spending more money to raise money, according to a new study.
Getting Kids to Spell Philanthropy Inspires Giving
A private school in South Carolina created a video showing youngsters trying to say the word philanthropy and spell it. The lighthearted approach fueled a tripling in...
Texting to the Red Kettle
The Salvation Army is recruiting young people to send text messages to friends and relatives to urge them to respond to the charity's traditional year-end appeal.
Antihunger Group Seeks Cellphone Gifts
New York's City Harvest is plastering the metropolis with ads that have a special code to make it easy for people with mobile phones to make a gift of any size.
Wildlife Fund Turns to Facebook to Promote Holiday Catalog
The World Wildlife Fund hopes that making it easy for people to adopt a polar bear or other animal will lead to a boom in year-end giving.
Wikipedia Enlists Volunteers to Raise Money
The online encyclopedia used to ask a fund-raising expert to direct its year-end appeals, but now it is enlisting volunteers in much the same way it runs the rest of its...
A Gloomy Holiday Forecast for Charity
As the crucial year-end fund-raising season opens, many donors are not in a giving mood, according to several new studies.
A Holiday-Themed Fund-Raising Album Keeps Giving
More than 20 years after the project debuted, 'A Very Special Christmas' music collection helps Special Olympics start and expand its programs worldwide.
Building Bridges to Overseas Donors
Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture-capital organization, finances efforts in developing countries. Now it is turning to overseas donors to support more of its work.
About Giving
An Investing 'Lothario’ Becomes a Passionate Philanthropist
The billionaire Foster Friess has donated large chunks of his fortune to good causes. Most of his giving is driven by his bedrock beliefs in both Christianity and free-market...
A Complex Giving Structure Enables Quiet Donations
The arrangement Foster Friess, a billionaire investor, uses to conduct his giving makes it hard to tell exactly how much he gives and to what causes.
A Billionaire's Birthday Benefits Charity
The philanthropist Foster Friess celebrated his 70th birthday by giving $70,000 checks to charities recommended by his friends and relatives.
Donations by the Wealthy Dropped Sharply in the Recession, Study Finds
Wealthy Americans sought to compensate for a decline in dollars donated by volunteering more and giving a bigger share of their gifts to help charities pay operating costs.
Late Arts Patron Leaves Big Gift to the Huntington Library
Poor Advice for Donors
As new groups spring up to help donors evaluate charities, very few focus on the best ways to figure out if a group is worthy of a gift, writes a financial expert.
Why Philanthropy Should Welcome the Tea Party
Leaders in the nonprofit world have shunned the Tea Party's efforts to shrink government, but they are misguided in doing so, writes a Chronicle columnist.
A Cautionary Tale for Nonprofit Boards
Nonprofit leaders should review their governance approach, writes a lawyer who advises charities after a New Jersey college got into trouble with state regulators.
Don’t Ignore the Economic Value Nonprofits Provide
Creating jobs at nonprofits is every bit as important as creating jobs at for-profit businesses since both help society, writes a Chronicle columnist.
More Features
Grooming a Generation of Storytellers
Barrel of Monkeys, a Chicago charity, helps young people learn to write plays and perform on stage. (The Face of Philanthropy)
Lessons About Nonprofit Management and Innovations
A management consulting firm has gathered its best articles that have been published by magazines and journals over the past decade.
The Evolution of Foundations
Foundations’ abilities to build institutions and influence public policy have long outstripped their financial power, say the editors of a volume of essays.
The Importance of Charity Ethics
Every nonprofit organization should develop its own code of ethics, writes the academic director at the George H. Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New...
The Problem With Pink-Ribbon Drives
A medical sociologist says that pink-ribbon drives to promote attention to breast cancer are not effective in combating the disease.
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