The NonProfit Times Editorial Archives

• Getting Relief To Quake-Stricken Haiti Is Perilous For Charities
  January 13, 2009
  The devastation caused by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday is so widespread that many relief agencies also have ceased to be able to function.
  
  
  
• MINDset Direct Acquired By CDR
  January 8, 2009
  CDR Fundraising Group, a fundraising agency in Bowie, Md., has acquired MINDset Direct, a five-year-old fundraising consultancy in Arlington, Va. Both sides declined to provide terms of the deal.
  
  
  
• Philanthropist Ruth Lilly Dead At 9
  December 31, 2009
  The heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune that spread her wealth all over Indianapolis and beyond died last night (Dec. 30). Ruth Lilly, the last surviving great-grandchild of Eli Lilly, was 94.
  
  
  
• Fundraisers Beat Utah Again
  December 28, 2009
  A judge has rejected the state of Utah ’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its jurisdiction over professional fundraisers who do not do business in the state. The ruling was from Dale Kimball, United States District Court Judge for the District of Utah, Central Division.
  
  
  
• Giving Lagging, But Fundraisers’ Optimism Rising
  December 21, 2009
  Approximately one-third of charities are raising more funds so far during the 2009 holiday season compared to the same time period in 2008, according to the Holiday Giving Survey by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
  
  
  
• Bleeding For Programs
  December 14, 2009
  Many of the managers in the nonprofit field bleed for programs and services. They like them, respect what they try to do, and they want to see them thrive. Programs are the heart of the nonprofit sector.
  
  
  
• Watchdog Relaxes Standards In Face Of Tough Economy
  December 7, 2009
  Recognizing that charities across the country are struggling financially in the current economy, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance announced that it would consider the recession’s impact when evaluating charities’ fundraising and program expense ratios.
  
  
  
• House Approves Estate Tax
  December 4, 2009
  Less than a month before the estate tax is set to disappear for a year, The House of Representatives approved legislation Thursday that would create new rates for 2010 and beyond.
  
  
  
• Komen Appoints Founder As New CEO
  December 2, 2009
  Two weeks after its previous leader resigned, Susan G. Komen for the Cure appointed its founder as CEO while separating the duties of president from the position.
  
  
  
• Red Cross Survey: Holiday Giving Will Be Strong
  November 30, 2009
  Support for charitable giving will be strong this holiday season, even in the face of job losses and cutbacks of all kinds, according to a survey released by the American Red Cross (ARC). The survey results were part of the launch of a new “Gifts that Save the Day” holiday giving campaign, featuring an online catalog and national advertising.
  
  
  

  
  
• Red Cross Survey: Holiday Giving Will Be Strong
  November 23, 2009
  Support for charitable giving will be strong this holiday season, even in the face of job losses and cutbacks of all kinds, according to a survey released by the American Red Cross (ARC). The survey results were part of the launch of a new “Gifts that Save the Day” holiday giving campaign, featuring an online catalog and national advertising.
  
  
  
• Komen CEO Leaves, 3 Days After New Federal Cancer Guidelines
  November 19, 2009
  Hala Moddelmog, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leading national breast cancer awareness organization, has resigned. The departure was announced just three days after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued its controversial updated mammogram guidelines.
  
  
  
• FTC Founder To File Wrongful Termination, Seeks Restraining Order
  November 10, 2009
  The attorney for fired Feed The Children (FTC) Founder Larry Jones plans to file a wrongful termination lawsuit today in Oklahoma County District Court, in addition to seeking a restraining order preventing FTC from using Jones ’ image and likeness in fundraising activities.
  
  
  
• Feed The Children Fires Founder Larry Jones
  November 9, 2009
  Less than three months after giving up control of the organization, Larry Jones was terminated from Feed The Children, the organization he started 30 years ago.
  
  
  
• Small Nonprofits Dominate America's Giving Challenge
  November 6, 2009
  A 30-day online competition showed how social media allows small nonprofits to garner huge support from donors during America ’s Giving Challenge, which ended at 3 p.m. EST today.
  
  
  
• The Government And Nonprofits, It’s Complicated
  November 5, 2009
  Independent Sector’s annual conference being held here is called “Challenging Times, New Opportunities.” But it might as well have been titled, “All Hands On Deck.”
  
  
  
• Men & Women Equally Likely To Include Charity In Estate Plans
  November 2, 2009
  Gender does not generally predict whether someone who donates to charity is likely to leave a charitable bequest in a will, according to a new study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
  
  
  
• Nonprofit Pension Liability Relief Introduced In Congress
  October 28, 2009
  Legislation introduced in Congress this week could provide temporary relief for nonprofits faced with huge increases in pension contributions in the coming years.
  
  
  
• infoGroup Launches Nonprofit Division, Merges May Development And Triplex
  October 26, 2009
  The melding at infoGROUP continues with the combining of database firm Triplex and creative and list company May Development Services to form infoGROUP Nonprofit. The new division will launch with approximately 435 clients and virtually no client overlap.
  
  
  
• Feed The Children Faces More Litigation
  October 20, 2009
  Barely a month after they wrote an internal memo about possible fraud and criminal conduct, two employees at Feed The Children, Inc. have filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the billion-dollar charity.
  
  
• Closed Door Deal Averts DMA Proxy Fight
  October 18, 2009
  In the end, the proxy votes of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Direct Marketing Association (DMA) members were never counted.
  
  
• No Postal Rate Hikes In 2010
  October 15, 2009
  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced that it will not increase rates on “market dominant products” for the 2010 calendar year.
  
  
• Lawsuits, Proxy Fight Heading Into DMA’s Annual Meeting
  October 9, 2009
  As the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) proxy fight enters the home stretch, both sides are pulling out all the stops in a bare-knuckle campaign that might rival anything you might see in a November election.
  
  
• Patrick Corvington Picked To Head Corporation for National and Community Service October 6, 2009
  Patrick Corvington was nominated to be the next chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) on Friday, just one day after the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act provisions went into effect.
  
  
• DMA And Board Members Are Dueling Proxies September 28, 2009
  It might be proxy statements at 30 paces during the upcoming Direct Marketing Association (DMA) annual conference in San Diego next month. After board member Gerry Pike sent an email blast Sept. 25 asking for proxy votes from the membership, the DMA launched a campaign of its own.
  
• Update: United Way Revenue Dips 11.3% September 24, 2009
  There were big fundraising winners and big fundraising losers in the United Way system between 2007 and 2008. According to revised numbers released Tuesday (Sept. 29) by the United Way, Erie, Pa., posted the largest percentage decrease of -67.5 percent and Salem, Ore., posted the largest percentage increase of 42.2 percent.
  
  
• Spurned Board Member Goes After DMA September 24, 2009
  A Direct Marketing Association (DMA) board member who was denied nomination for a second term is mounting an email campaign to get the proxy votes of DMA members before the organization ’s annual conference next month in San Diego.
  
  
• Jo Sullivan Leaving ASPCA For CDR Group September 15, 2009
  Jo Black Sullivan, who ran the highly successful fundraising programs for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), is leaving the New York City-based animal rights group to join CDR Fundraising Group in Bowie, Md.
  
  
• Service And Remembrance Get Their Day September 12, 2009
  Events around the nation marked the first annual National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11, an element of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, passed with strong bipartisan support and signed into law by President Obama this past April.
  
  
• MDA’s Telethon Tops $60.4 Million, Down From ‘08 September 8, 2009
  The 44th annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised more than $60.4 million this past Labor Day weekend, falling 7.61 percent short of the record $65 million raised last year.
  
  
• Judge Rejects Donor's Intent, Rules For Tulane September 2, 2009
  A New Orleans judge has ruled in favor of Tulane University in a donor intent dispute over a century-old bequest.
  
  
• Rejected WWF Terror Ad Hit The Web Anyway September 1, 2009
  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) US sent hundreds of messages via Twitter in the space of an hour trying to curb backlash against an advertisement using the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to illustrate climate change effects in an advertisement the organization did not commission.
  
  
• Americans Cut Volunteer Time, Focus On Personal Priorities August 27, 2009
  Some 72 percent of Americans said they have cut back on the time they spent volunteering, participating in groups and doing other civic activities when compared to last year.
  
  
• Jones Ousted As Boss At Feed The Children August 14, 2009
  Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed The Children, today relinquished day-to-day operational control of the Oklahoma City, Okla., nonprofit as part of a lawsuit settlement. Both sides in a nasty boardroom battle were scheduled for court today.
  
  
• Special Olympics Founder Eunice Shriver Dies August 11, 2009
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics and life-long advocate for those with intellectual disabilities, has died. She was 88.
  
  
• Fundraisers’ Pessimism Hits 11-Year High August 4, 2009
  The fundraising climate for U.S. charities continued to decline in the first half of 2009, according to the latest Philanthropic Giving Index (PGI) by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
  
  
• Angie Moore To Head Merkle’s Nonprofit Group August 3, 2009
  Direct response fundraising veteran Angie Moore has been hired to lead the nonprofit division of database firm Merkle in Columbia, Md. Moore joins Merkle from the American Cancer Society (ACS) national headquarters in Atlanta where she was managing director, customer relationship management.
  
  
• Donor Scales Back Major Gift To University July 31, 2009
  Two and a half years after announcing the largest gift in school history, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) will have to settle for less than a third of the donation.
  
  
• AMA Awards Nonprofit Marketer Of The Year July 31, 2009
  Eric Overman, director of online communities and social media at Operation Smile, received the 2009 Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award from American Marketing Association (AMA) and the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF) at the Nonprofit Marketing Conference in Chicago, Ill, earlier this month.
  
• Young Adults Fueled Spike In Volunteers July 28, 2009
  Led by teens and young adults accounting for almost half the increase, about a million more people volunteered last year, according to an annual report on volunteering in the United States. Nonprofits also expect to continue their increased use of volunteers this year.
  
• Obama Pushes For Social Innovation July 1, 2009
  Calling on other sectors to partner with government to invest and find high-impact, results-oriented solutions, President Barack Obama highlighted several nonprofits as examples of the kinds of programs sought for the administration’s Social Innovation Fund.
  
  
• infoGROUP Merges Direct Media And Millard June 25, 2009
  The consolidation of infoGROUP’s list and database companies has begun, with the merger of direct marketing firms Direct Media and Millard.
  
  
• Michelle Obama Launches National Service Conference June 23, 2009
  SAN FRANCISCO -- National service and volunteering took center stage yesterday (6/22) as First Lady Michelle Obama spoke about two new volunteering initiatives this year during the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering & Service in San Francisco.
  
  
• TV Programming To Spotlight Volunteering And Service June 22, 2009
  Celebrity star power will be on hand today at the nation’s largest conference on volunteerism to detail plans for a new multi-year campaign to help make public service a national priority.
  
  
• New Officers, Members At DMANF Advisory Council June 19, 2009
  The Direct Marking Association Nonprofit Federation (DMANF) announced new members to its advisory council, who take over July 1.
  
  
• President Uses Video To Push Public Service June 17, 2009
  Today in a video message, President Obama called all Americans to incorporate service and volunteerism into their lives this summer as a part of a national initiative led by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
  
  
• TV Networks To Focus On National Service June 16, 2009
  National service will be at the center of television programming this fall on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, The NonProfit Times has learned. The White House, The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), AARP and the Corporation For National and Community Service are expected to be part of the announcement of the initiative in coming days.
  
  
• Obama Cans CNCS Inspector General Who Wrote Negative Report June 12, 2009
  A week after issuing a blistering report about a Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) grant, the agency’s inspector general will be removed from his position, according to a CNCS statement issued late yesterday.
  
  
• Patrick Rooney Appointed To Run Center On Philanthropy June 3, 2009
  As reported exclusively yesterday (6/02/09) on the Twitter feed of The NonProfit Times, Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., is the new executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University in Indianapolis. He has been interim executive director since this past September when Eugene R. Tempel left the position to become president of the Indiana University Foundation.
  
  
• National Service Nominee Bows Out Citing Health May 26, 2009
  Maria Eitel, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Corporation for
  National and Community Service (CNCS), has withdrawn her nomination due to an undisclosed health issue.
  
  
• Former Gill Foundation Boss A Suspected Suicide May 19, 2009
  Rodger McFarlane, an activist and leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, was found dead and is suspected of having taken his own life this past Friday in Truth or Consequences, N.M. He was 54.
  
  
• Robin Hood Gala Bags $72.6 Million May 13, 2009
  The Robin Hood Foundation raised $72.6 million during its 20th annual gala last night thanks to a $27-million assist from global philanthropist George Soros. Without it, the star-studded event would not have matched last year’s revenue totals.
  
  
• New Postal Rates Kick In Monday May 8, 2009
  New postal rates scheduled to take effect Monday will increase by an average of almost 4 percent but spike much higher for nonprofits mailing parcels and Non-Flat Machinables (NFM).
  
  
• $50 Million Social Innovation Fund To Target Education, Health, Economy May 6, 2009
  First Lady Michelle Obama outlined education, health care and economic opportunity as three focus areas for the administration’s efforts to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship as a means to solve some of the nation’s problems.
  
  
• America’s Charities Cuts Into United Way’s Business April 30, 2009
  Competition is getting fierce in the realm of workplace giving programs. America’s Charities on Wednesday welcomed 21 nonprofits that had been part of the United Way of the National Capital Area into a new program called Community1st. The Chantilly, Va.-based organization has about two dozen charities in similar alliances, Children1st and Health1st.
  
  
• Revenue Declines Spark AFP Layoffs April 23, 2009
  The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) had already eliminated $1 million from its annual budget by January but declining revenues have forced another $700,000 cut, resulting in layoffs of six of its 43 staff members, or about 14 percent.
  
  
• Bill Signing, Appointment Mark Big Day For National Service April 21, 2009
  It’s a big day for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). On the same day he signed legislation to provide the federal agency an additional $1.1 billion in the next fiscal year, President Barack Obama said he will nominate Maria Eitel as its new CEO.
  
  
• Judge Approves Barton-Cotton Sale April 15, 2009
  Clearing the way for the closing to occur next week, a Maryland bankruptcy judge today approved the sale of direct response marketing firm Barton-Cotton.
  
  
• Ray Grace, Fundraising Leader, Has Died April 14, 2009
  Raymond J. Grace, a longtime leader in the nonprofit fundraising sector, died this morning (April 14) after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 65.
  
  
• Buyer Found For Barton-Cotton April 7, 2009
  Barely 10 weeks after Barton-Cotton filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the direct marketing company could be back in business.
  
  
• $5.7 Billion Service Legislation Passes Senate March 27, 2009
  The U.S. Senate approved the Serve America Act last night, moving forward with the first sweeping reforms of national service programs in 16 years.
  
  
• National Service Bill Passes House Of Representatives March 19, 2009
  Legislation to revise national service programs and boost volunteerism has cleared the first of three major hurdles it faces in the coming weeks.
  
  
• DMA Cuts Staff, Chief Exec’s Salary Grew March 6, 2009
  The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) announced its second round of layoffs within six months as expenses outpaced revenues last year. But, the tight financial situation hasn’t stopped pay hikes for the organization’s chief executive officer, whose salary has grown by 52 percent in four years.
  
  
• Obama’s Budget Would Cut Charitable Deduction February 27, 2009
  Charitable giving could take a hit under President Barack Obama’s new federal budget – or it might not, depending on to whom you talk – or argue.
  
  
• Barton-Cotton Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy February 11, 2009
  Barton-Cotton, the 80-year-old Columbia, Md.-based direct marketing firm, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.
  
  
• Obama Appoints Chief of Faith-Base Office January 30, 2009
  Joshua DuBois, a 26-year-old former associate pastor who handled religious outreach for President Barack Obama’s presidential bid, will head up the administration’s version of the faith-based initiative.
  
  
• Thrift Shops Exempted From Lead Rules January 9, 2009
  Nonprofit thrift stores dodged a bullet as a change to new consumer testing requirements clarified a law that threatened to paralyze children’s clothing sales by February and would have hit consumers relying on thrift stores for child clothing and toys in the tough economy.
  
  
• Donors And Revenue Continue Steep Nose Dive January 9, 2009
  In statistics that will be of little surprise to charity executives, the number of donors who give to charities via direct response techniques such as mail and online declined during the third quarter of 2008 and their revenue went with them. Donors who continued to donate did give more but could not stem the decline.

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