Read today’s trending Newswire here: Buffett and Gates started buttonholing their rich and famous (or not so famous) peers from the Forbes 400 and ended up calling 70 to get 40, though they don’t plan to stop
Nonprofit Newswire | The Mother of Invention in San Diego
In the face of one of the most challenging funding environments in years, several groups are applying creative approaches to help them ride out the downturn.
Nonprofit Newswire | Does Newsweek Have a Future as a Nonprofit?
The 92-year-old hi-fidelity business pioneer Sidney Harman has purchased Newsweek from the Washington Post Company.
Nonprofit Newswire | Bans on Roadway Solicitations Could Take Toll on Charities
A Chicago village has banned volunteers from collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association from motorists stopped at intersections.
Nonprofit Newswire | Brand Wars—Nonprofit Style?
Susan G. Komen For the Cure is launching a legal battle against “kite fliers, kayakers and dozens of other themed fund-raisers” that it says are illegally using the name, "for the cure."
Nonprofit Newswire | Two Thousand Attend Free Health Clinic at D.C. Convention Center
Volunteer doctors and nurses scrambled to keep up with the inflow of patients. The clinic cost $300,000 to put on, with money contributed by 44,000 donors.
Stuff to Do Right Now . . . Or at Least Pretty Soon

I read professional books and publications to give me new information—or old information in a new way. Reading stimulates my thinking and then I figure out how to apply it to particular situations. So here are some of my favorite authors and resources. I highly recommend these to you.
Nonprofit Newswire | August 4, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, Operation Noah’s Arc and 50,000 fiddler crabs, the FBI warns Wikipedia Foundation, are clergy salaries public information? and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Operation Noah’s Ark and 50,000 Fiddler Crabs
Jack Rudloe hopes to save sea life threatened by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by taking a page from the Bible.
Nonprofit Newswire | The FBI Warns Wikipedia Foundation
A letter from the FBI says that the "unauthorized reproduction" of its seal "was prohibited by U.S. law."
Nonprofit Newswire | Clergy Salaries Public Information?
Religious organizations don’t have to reveal executive salaries as churches and other religious groups are exempt from form 990 disclosures. Should that be changed?
Nonprofit Newswire | Profits for Nonprofits
On every deal, Suzanne Sunshine arranges for 10 to 50 percent of her real estate commission to be returned to the client—a New York charity.