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Hand-wringing over what Kresge hath wrought
If the Kresge Foundation isn’t giving matching grants for brand-new arts buildings anymore–and it’s not–the arts-building bubble is over as surely as the housing and financial-industry bubbles....
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Dear Nonprofiteer, If an Executive Director puts her hand in the cookie jar...
Dear Nonprofiteer, The quick and dirty is this: a local AIDS charity has an ED who facilitates a hostile environment. She fires people and then back-fills their employee record with negative things....
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Dear Nonprofiteer, What to do when foundations slam the door?
Dear Nonprofiteer: We are a small non-profit music school. We have been running into a problem with grants strategy–as in, we aren’t getting any. I am consistently getting feedback: 1. “Lovely...
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Chase: What matters?
[An excerpt of this posting appears on the Huffington Post, in the Impact section.] The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones notwithstanding, the problem with the Chase Community Giving program isn’t that it...
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Well, duh!
England’s Financial Times reports concern that cuts in government grants to charities will impair the charities’ ability to provide services, and particularly to pick up the slack produced by cuts in...
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The 5 Ws of Individual-Gifts Fundraising
As all budding journalists know, every story can be told through judicious use of the 5 Ws: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Here the Nonprofiteer employs this efficient system to tell the story of how...
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Holiday music to the ears
H/t the indispensable Nonprofit Quarterly‘s Nonprofit Newswire: a congregation in Anchorage is running a “Mitzvah Mall,” at which what’s for sale is donations to nonprofits. A Festival of Light...
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On Wisconsin! Part II*
Boy, this guy is the gift that just keeps on giving: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, not content to interfere with the provision of public services by destroying public-sector unions, has now decided...
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The Joyce Foundation, the Independent Sector and the facts
Ellen Alberding’s interview with the Chicago Tribune in advance of the Independent Sector‘s meeting in Chicago earlier this week pressed nearly every one of the Nonprofiteer’s buttons. Ms. Alberding,...
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Existing forever versus doing some good
An op-ed piece a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) argued that donors should construct their foundations to spend down assets as rapidly as possible, lest the foundations end...
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