Nonprofit Newswire | Bomb Squad Demolishes Devout’s Donation

Ruth McCambridge

May 11, 2010

May 10, 2010; NBC2 News.com | Over the weekend a 40 pound box package marked only “for Pastor Nick” was humbly left at a local church where church workers discovered it, and drove it to the nearest police station where it was promptly blown up by the bomb squad. All that remained of the $2,700 donation were some rolled coins. I guess our question is why they got in the car with it if it seemed so sketchy? Luckily the U.S. Treasury will replace the money.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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