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

• Mrs. Jobs, philanthropist

  After death of her husband, Laurene Powell Jobs is quietly flexing her philanthropic muscle on behalf of education and immigration reform.… MORE >>

• Compare and contrast

  A look at Dallas, TX’s richest citizens and a comparison with list of its most philanthropic: Where and how much do the lists overlap?… MORE >>

• Probably should have “meddled” a bit…

  “Top White House lawyer learned of IRS inquiry in April,” did not inform president in case it appeared admin was “meddling” with independent agency.… MORE >>

• President Obama and the proud men of Morehouse

  It’s hard to find a “serious” commencement speech that isn’t about remembering that there’s more to life than power and money.… MORE >>

• Live feed of IRS hearing

  Want to follow the House IRS hearing as if you were there?… MORE >>

• How do we know what (and how well) participants learn in short, educational programming?… MORE >>

• Nonprofit must repay MA $350,000

  MA auditor says nonprofit May Institute improperly spent state funds–including $138K in “reimbursements” to its president.… MORE >>

• IRS’s “different set of rules”

  Nonprofit head extrapolates from her organization’s IRS experience that there is more that needs to be fixed at the agency than politics.… MORE >>

• Asking two heavyweights, “Why does philanthropy exist?”

  Here, from the ThoughtEconomics blog, an interview with two foundation heads–Jeff Raikes of Gates Foundation and Eli Broad–on some fundamental questions.… MORE >>

• The weight of philanthropy

  An in-depth profile of Laura and John Arnold, part of new wave of philanthropists who want to use “data analysis and science” to mitigate society’s ills.… MORE >>