Fundraising

From The Harvard Business Review, Achieving Balance in Nonprofit Governance. From Marion R. Fremont-Smith “The principal changes in nonprofit governance I would recommend relate to procedures and board participation, not legal structures or legal requirements. Many of the abuses that have come to light recently could have been prevented if charitable fiduciaries—directors, officers, and trustees—had been more attentive to their ...

I attended the World Future Society meeting in Washington, DC, as did the rest of the FI Center team a couple of weeks ago. When I was there I picked up a publication titled “From Scan to Plan” from the American Society of Association Executives, an organization that covers topics of interest to many kinds of trade, professional and volunteer ...

Crosscurrents in Philanthropy Susan Raymond, managing director of research, evaluation and strategic planning at Changing Our World, predicted that the globalization of corporate operations could prompt many businesses to increase the amount of corporate giving they do overseas, which may cause cutbacks in domestic giving. No figures were given. If philanthropic giving by corporations declines in the coming years, charities ...

Know where the Corporations will be with their happy and healthy worker-volunteers, and most of all, know that the money will be there too. That is the basis of a new book titled, “Life 2.0; How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness”, Crown Business, by Rich Karlgaard. Americans have always had an ...