Fundraising
As More Charities Promote Matching Gifts, Donors Grow Skeptical
The bad economy prompted many charities to promise supporters their money would go further, but the idea may be getting tired.
About Managing
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Service Charities Seek Ways to Help Low-Paid Employees Get By
Nonprofits are helping workers get safety-net benefits and training to get better salaries. But as the economy improves, that may not be enough to keep workers on the job.
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A Social-Service Group Helps Workers Stretch Their Pay at an In-House Grocery
A long-term health-care group allows workers to earn credits they can use to buy food and other items.
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Social-Service Groups Urged to Link Workers With Government Safety-Net Programs
Catholic Charities, Goodwill, and other national charities are testing a new effort financed with $1-million from the Ford Foundation.
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What Counts as Lobbying? A New Challenge for the IRS
Common Cause has asked the tax agency to investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that promotes ideas like "stand your ground" legislation, saying its...
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IRS Warns Charities to Avoid Disclosing Social Security Numbers
The tax agency said it was worried that nonprofits put donors, trustees, and others at risk of identify theft by including their Social Security numbers on informational tax...
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Good Governance Makes Tax Compliance More Likely
A new study suggests that charities that follow certain practices, like having written mission statements, are also more likely to abide by IRS tax rules.
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Diverse Range of Nonprofits Nominated for Online Awards
Museums, youth groups, and education projects are among the organizations that are in the running for the prestigious Webby Awards.
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New Workbook on Social-Media Policies
Idealware, a nonprofit technology group, has created a workbook that guides organizations through issues to consider in developing a social-media policy.
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Creative Wireless Projects Honored
Taking first place and receiving $300,000 in the Wireless Innovation Project contest was the Wireless Bug Sensor, designed to reduce the amount of money farmers spend on...
Continuing-Education Guide
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College Workers Pool Their Collective Wisdom
Fundraisers, alumni-affairs officials, and others who are involved in attracting support for the University of Virginia created their own network to share good ideas and...
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Getting Employees To Teach one Another: Tips From an Expert
Advice for organizations that want to encourage workers to form groups to work on shared problems.
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Nonprofit Work Demands Strong Writing Skills
Charity workers are finding formal and informal ways to improve their prose as they face increased pressure to communicate on blogs and social networks as well as produce...
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Project Helps Founders Handle Strain of Stepping Down
The New School is helping leaders deal with the business and emotional issues that arise as they leave organizations they started.
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Minorities Get an Insider’s View of Foundation Work in Fellowship Program
Foundations pooled their money to provide yearlong jobs to people who want careers in philanthropy.
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A Calif. University Offers Free Management Courses to Social-Service Workers
Golden Gate University's offer to provide instruction gets a warm reception, but employees were so overburdened with their day jobs, many couldn't complete a...
About Fundraising
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Charities Urged to Ask Tough Questions About Matching Drives
Promising to match a gift can detract from other fundraising campaigns and distort an organization's priorities, charity veterans say.
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Mobile-Payment Devices Spur Spontaneous Gifts
As people carry less cash, charities say they are reaping benefits by letting people swipe their credit cards into retooled smartphones whenever or wherever they want to make...
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A Philanthropist Helps Small Donors Win Bequests
Harold Grinspoon's foundation trains Jewish camps to ask supporters to leave them money in their wills, and the approach offers ideas other small groups can put to work.
About Giving
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A Quirky Grass-Roots Effort Supports 'Awesome’ Projects
An idea to get people to pool $1,000 a month to pay for creative projects has spawned a global movement that eschews typical foundation bureaucracy.
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With an Eye on the Court, Foundations Help States Adopt Health Law
Grant makers and nonprofits are moving ahead on the assumption that the Supreme Court will uphold the law and that they must help states do the nitty-gritty work needed to...
Opinion
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Don’t Let Corporate Marketers Set the Charity Agenda
The growth of cause marketing not only hurts nonprofits but also relieves governments and businesses of their responsibility to solve large-scale problems.
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End the 'Witch Hunt’ Approach at Catholic Community-Organizing Fund
The Campaign for Human Development, a Catholic group that provides $8-million a year to charities, has bowed too far to pressure from conservative bishops, casting out groups...
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Don’t Let Congress Keep Stomping on Advocacy Rights
New restrictions on nonprofit free-speech rights are a sign not just of growing power by conservatives to quash popular democracy, but also that charities and foundations...
Other Features
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Grant Maker Wins Honors for Innovative Work to Help the Poor
Michele Prichard, of the Liberty Hill Foundation, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations.
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Charity Leaders and Donors Make 'Time’ List of Influential People
Time draws attention to people working to improve the common good, and Fast Company examines the turnaround of Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles nonprofit...
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Soros Fellowships Support Immigrant Students
Paul and Daisy Soros have provided $75-million for a program, now in its 15th year, to help graduate students pay for their studies.
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New Hewlett President Wants to Fix 'Broken’ Parts of Democracy
Larry Kramer, dean of the Stanford Law School, says when he takes over the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, he wants to consider new grants focused on money and politics...
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$20-Million Gift to Jewish Federation Will Provide Scholarships
Geri Brawerman pledged money to help needy high-school students and pay for activities to persuade young Jews to get involved in Jewish causes.
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