Articles P7190

Review: Random Family

Review By Anitra Lynn Waller

Waller offers an intimate exposé of crime and drugs in the inner city.

Review: Third Sector Development

Review By Jacob Harold

Nonprofits are still sorely needed in the US.

Review: Good to Great and the Social Sectors

Review By Robert Gertner

Lessons for becoming the best can translate from companies to social organizations.

Review: Just Money

Review By Peter Frumkin

Karoff reveals how wise donors operate.

Social Innovations

Live from CoF: How to Break Down the Firewall

By Perla Ni

What sparked life-time trustees, who once saw investments only in terms of financial returns, to embrace program-related investments?

Philanthropy

Live from CoF: Remittances—The New Way to Alleviate Poverty

By Eric Nee

Remittances dwarf traditional forms of aid to less developed nations.

Review: How to Change the World

Review By Mark R. Kramer

Key social innovators have succeeded against all odds –– and with little financial muscle.

Philanthropy

Live from CoF: Immigration and Philanthropy

By Catherine Di Benedetto

If we take away the jobs of undocumented workers, how will they survive?

Bettering Beantown

By Betsy Haley

Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.

Philanthropy

“New” Philanthropy

By Paul Shoemaker

Systemic change in philanthropy.