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Older Donors Give More Says Study . . . and What Haiti Giving Looked Like
August 24, 2010; Fundraising Success | A fundraising survey reveals some interesting statistics about giving.—Ruth McCambridge
Humanitarian Act Earns a Conviction
September 8, 2010; Time | After leaving bottles of drinking water near the Arizona-Mexico border so that immigrants walking through the desert wouldn't die of thirst, Daniel Millis was arrested and charged with leaving "garbage" in a national wildlife refuge.—Bruce Trachtenberg
Not-So-Magic Carpet Ride
August 31, 2010; New York Times | The White House picked the wrong time to redecorate.—Rick Cohen
Stimulus Funds a Tangle for Some Louisiana Nonprofits
September 7, 2010; BusinessReport.com | Some organizations in Baton Rouge that have been receiving stimulus grants under the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program are ruing the day.—Ruth McCambridge
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Audit Questions Future of Sharpton's Civil Rights Group
September 7, 2010; New York Post | Among the problems uncovered in the audit were some $1.348 million in delinquent city, state and federal taxes and penalties.—Bruce Trachtenberg
Billy Beane and Outcomes: What Can Baseball Tell the Nonprofit World About Measures and Measurement?
August 2010; Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal | Charity Navigator’s Ken Berger and “outcomes consultant” Robert Penna draw on a study of the small-market, low payroll Oakland Athletics to see if different measures of outcomes—or identification of different outcomes altogether—would help nonprofits improve their operations.—Rick Cohen
New Site Answers Questions About Health Reform Law
September 3, 2010; Associated Press | Probably the one question on everyone's minds about the new health law is "how does it affect me?" New Hampshire's largest health foundation has created an online tool that answers that query—and plenty more.—Bruce Trachtenberg
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