Thursday May 23rd, 2013
ALL THINGS CHARITABLE
“A+ for America”: Catholic Schools Week brings bitter and sweet, with some urban schools downsizing.… MORE >>
Teach for America receives $100 million pledge from Broad, Robertson foundations and 2 others.… MORE >>
Newport jazz and folk festivals return to their nonprofit roots to preserve history, legacy.… MORE >>
A UConn donor wants his $3 million gift back after he wasn’t consulted about hiring the new football coach.… MORE >>
New site “Philanthroper” hopes to parlay hundreds of $1 gifts into big boost for small charities.… MORE >>
Alum used his company’s employee plan to benefit Yale; university now will pay $1 million in restitution.… MORE >>
Prince William and Kate Middleton may forgo a wedding registry and ask for charitable contributions instead.… MORE >>
WA nonprofit stands to benefit if Jeopardy … MORE >>champion Ken Jennings can beat an IBM computer.
Haiti, one year later: NPR reports that only about 40% has been distributed, out of $2 billion.… MORE >>
Stockbroker defrauds NY Sisters of Charity, trading “excessive[ly] and unnecessar[ily]” to jack up his fees.… MORE >>
It’s hard to find a “serious” commencement speech that isn’t about remembering that there’s more…
How do we know what (and how well) participants learn in short, educational programming? The…
When my husband and I moved to the suburbs of Westchester in 2005, we had…
Last night I attended a fundraiser for the Washington Conservatory of Music (WCM), sponsored and…
Adam Grant is the wunderkind of business professors, a Harvard and University of Michigan graduate…
