Give and Take: Advice for Donors and More

Charity accounting can be so “easily manipulated that donors may be disastrously misled,” says a financial-advice columnist cited in Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the most-interesting posts about the nonprofit world.

Among the other new items in our daily digest:

• An environmental charity volunteer offers a first-person view of the Copenhagen climate meeting.

• A veteran fund raiser, Milton Murray, has died.

• Why grant makers should give young or small charities matching grants.

• How new and veteran grant makers are working together.