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Nonprofit Uses Social Media to Track Oil Spill Fallout
May 4, 2010; Justmeans | Louisiana Bucket Brigade is gathering data from several sources, including e-mail, text messages, and mobile video, to present the eyewitness accounts in real time.—James David Morgan
Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers
May 4, 2010; Village Voice | A video of actor Bill Murray has gone viral, perhaps making Lower Manhattan’s national poetry library the most popular it’s ever been.—James David Morgan
Why Doesn’t City Hall Pay Taxes?
May 1, 2010; Boston Herald | Editors at the Boston Herald seem to be unimpressed with Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s current scavenger hunt through nonprofit-owned properties for “voluntary” payments in lieu of taxes.—Rick Cohen
Challenges Ahead for New Foundation Head
May 1, 2010; The Gazette | This interview with the new CEO of the Memorial Health System Foundation is useful for its insights into an unusual kind of change in the hospital sector.—Rick Cohen
Future Givers are Created Not Born
May 3, 2010; Minneapolis Star Tribune | A survey found that more than 50 percent of the “most philanthropic teens” said their parents were the single most important influence in teaching them about giving.—Bruce Trachtenberg
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She Steps Up When Others Turn Their Back
May 4, 2010; Wall Street Journal | Leslie Ogan won’t show up on any list of the city’s major philanthropists, but what she has done on her own is besting two of New York’s better known givers.—Bruce Trachtenberg
Tax Exempt Erotica?
May 4, 2010; New York Times | The relationship between the for-profit Museum of Sex and the tax-exempt Muse Foundation is “far from typical.”—Bruce Trachtenberg
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