Kara Beer has worked as a development officer, grant writer, manager, and editor in the nonprofit sector for over fifteen years. She is the former managing editor of Modern Age, and the former development department manager at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

RECENT POSTS BY KARA BEER

• Lawyers and musicians

  Last night I attended a fundraiser for the Washington Conservatory of Music (WCM), sponsored and hosted by K&L Gates law firm.… MORE >>

• Auditing the auditors

  Obama announced departure of acting IRS head Steven Miller in wake of revelations, but he was leaving next month anyway.… MORE >>

• “Uneven” is one word for it

  NY Times’ take on IRS debacle: Focus on minutiae of conservative applications meant complaints filed about large “political” nonprofits went ignored.… MORE >>

• Givers, takers, and civil society?

  Adam Grant is the wunderkind of business professors, a Harvard and University of Michigan graduate who, at 31, is the youngest tenured faculty at Wharton Business School.… MORE >>

• House Committee to investigate nonprofit fundraising by Sebelius. Letters have gone to her and to 12 large corporations, including H&R Block (because Obamacare intersects IRS/taxes).… MORE >>

• Update: New Common Core essay in The Freeman Online

  In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on May 14 (subscription required), Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Sol Stern and Joel Klein, former chancellor of New York City schools, team up to state a “conservative” case for the Common Core State Standards.… MORE >>

• IRS Inspector General’s report in full is available at http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/700698/i-r-s-inspector-generals-report-on-targeting.pdf… MORE >>

• IRS scandals connect to the scandal of HHS Sec’y Sebelius fundraising for pet nonprofits.… MORE >>

• “What taxpayers deserve to know”

  With U.S. nonprofit sector “the size of India,” and a “murky” IRS historical record, Americans deserve to know more as current scandal unfolds.… MORE >>

• Online class in how to “philanthropize”

  “Giving with Purpose” is online class designed to “teach the art of philanthropy” through application; Doris Buffett is supplying $10K for students to grant.… MORE >>