A Community Grant Maker Recruits Black Donors, Sparks Enthusiastic Support
The Washington Area Women’s Foundation has, in its nine years of operation, already raised more than ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report $11-million from thousands of donors throughout the metropolitan Washington area, dispersing their gifts to local…
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A Bay Area Health Charity Bridges Cultural Gap to Help New Immigrants
Five years ago, when officials at San Francisco’s Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report learned that Burmese refugees were starting to move to nearby Oakland in big numbers — many of them with HIV/AIDS — they…
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Ford Foundation Seeks to Set Example for Grantees
A philanthropy leader speaks out on the importance of diversity within his organization, stressing themes ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report like fairness, opportunity, and effectiveness. While such calls to arms are commonplace in the nonprofit…
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A Housing Group Welcomes Low-Income Tenants
Good Old Lower East Side, a 30-year-old New York group that works to protect tenants, has long sought to ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report reflect the diversity of the neighborhood that it serves. But that is a challenge since this slice of…
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A Charity Empowers Young Leaders by Recruiting Them for Its Board
Antoine Bennett can still recall the very first meeting he attended as a new member of the Board of Directors ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report of YouthBuild USA, a charity with headquarters in Somerville, Mass., that provides education and…
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How charities cope when their boards need a makeoverThe recent outbreak of scandals at such high-profile organizations as American University, the Getty Trust, and the Smithsonian Institution — situations worsened, observers say, by failures of those groups’ boards to provide oversight — has set…
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Supporters of Philanthropy Courses
Here is a sampling of donors and grant makers that support undergraduate courses with a philanthropy component: ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Guiding Future Philanthropists Brennan Family Foundation. Created by the Ohio industrialist David Brennan, the Akron foundation recently gave $50,000 to support a…
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Guiding Future Philanthropists
A handful of grant makers support efforts to teach college students how to give intelligentlyWhen Kristin Caufield, a college sophomore with a longtime interest in community service, was looking for ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Supporters of Philanthropy Courses economics courses to fulfill requirements for…
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Silent retreats are generating buzz among stressed-out charity workers and a few foundations Four years ago Steve Jenkins felt overwhelmed by his job helping immigrant garment workers in New York. The solution, he decided, was to find some serious peace and quiet. Taking the advice of a friend,…
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A Pioneering Nonprofit Consultant Looks for a ‘Last Big Project’
When Jan Masaoka became the executive director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in 1993, the idea that charities could benefit from the guidance of consultants was still relatively new. Fast forward 13 years, and nonprofit groups routinely hire outside advisers. “There was a period when I started…
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