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For-profit thrift store chain gets sued for dressing like a charity

by Martin Morse Wooster / News Desk

For-profit thrift store chain gets sued for dressing like a charity

The attorney general of Washington state sued largest thrift retailer in the world with what amounts to deception and acting like a fake charity.

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Why a college admissions racket would funnel bribes through a fake charity

BY Deborah Archambeault and Sarah Webber

Outright fake charities like the one involved in this scandal are less commonly detected than other kinds of nonprofit fraud.

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A book for people who hate these kinds of books

BY Nathan Washatka

Reviewing Jeremy Beer and Jeff Cain’s “The Forgotten Foundations of Fundraising: Practical Advice and Contrarian Wisdom for Nonprofit Leaders.”

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Five simple steps for winning back your lapsed donors

BY Ben Shelton

Give your lapsed donors a shot to renew their support—don’t talk yourself out of it before you even try.

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Creeping credentialism and the bureaucratization of charity

BY Jeremy Beer and Jeffrey Cain

Expertly deflating the pretensions of those who would make fundraising a bureaucratic and esoteric profession, this book takes on the creeping trend of professionalization in philanthropy.

First, do no harm

BY Jeff Polet

Why we should adopt the Hippocratic Oath as the first rule of philanthropy.

An army for peace

BY Martin Morse Wooster

In the midst of civil war in the Central African Republic, boy scouts are arguably more effective than peacekeepers.

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Why did Panera’s pay-what-you-can social experiment fail?

BY Martin Morse Wooster

What the Panera Cares failure shows is that community cafes work as long as people understand they’re charities, not businesses.

Nonprofits must bargain with both donors and the state

BY Michael E. Hartmann

Policy-oriented groups are making the most of IRS regulations so they can bargain with both the government and their donors.

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How a Project in Boston is Mixing Philanthropy and Investments to Re-imagine Capitalism. For Boston’s working-class communities of color, the city’s economy is not working. That’s evidenced by a shocking racial wealth gap… read more

Actresses charged in college admissions cheating scheme. Here’s what you need to know about the massive college admissions cheating scandal… read more

Why money meant for charities isn’t getting to them. Roughly $100 billion that’s supposed to go to charities sits fallow in tax-avoidant account… read more

TPG’s McGlashan among defendants charged in college scheme. A great irony: one of the figures charged in college admissions bribing scheme was also one of the founders of the Rise Fund, an impact investing fund that placed heavy emphasis on impact measurement… read more

Artist-Endowed Foundations have been growing fast and are “an increasingly influential force.” Buoyed by a surging global art market, artist-endowed foundations have ramped up grantmaking across the past five years and reshaped the arts funding landscape in the process. A new study documents the full extent of the field’s expansion… read more

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