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Tips for Improving Board-Staff Interaction at Corporate Foundations

Making the Most of Corporate Foundation Boards: Strategies and Practices

Basics for Starting a Nonprofit Business Venture

Unlocking Profit Potential: Your Organization’s Guide to Social Entrepreneurship

How Family Foundations Can Avoid Legal Problems

Top 10 Ways Family Foundations Get Into Trouble, by Ellen Bryson and John A. Edie, points out areas of “murky and shifting ground” where family-foundation board members might run into legal problems. Most of the mistakes that family foundations make, say the authors, fall under the category of…

Perspectives on Property-Tax Exemption

Property-Tax Exemption for Charities

Understanding Gift Annuities

Gift Annuities: How They Work and Why Donors Like Them, by Frank Minton, aims to better explain how annuities work, through case studies, anecdotes, tables, and even cartoons. Mr. Minton, vice chair of the American Council on Gift Annuities and president of Planned Giving Services, in Seattle,…

Strategies for Cash-Flow Management

The Cash Flow Management Book for Nonprofits

Resource Guide for Small Foundations

The Guide to Small Foundation Management: From Groundwork to Grantmaking

A Case Study of Urban Revitalization

Putting Faith In Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work Through Grassroots Citizenship

Faith-Based Groups Challenge Illiteracy in Philadelphia

Mustering the Armies of Compassion in Philadelphia, edited by Bill Hangley Jr. and Wendy S. McClanahan, examines an effort by faith-based organizations to tackle illiteracy among students in Philadelphia, a city where nearly half of the children in public schools who complete third grade have…

How Nonprofit Groups Can Improve Their Performance

Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence