September 1, 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — The United Way of Metro Atlanta failed to meet its $82 million goal and is setting its next fund-raising campaign at what it was able to collect this year — $80.5 million.
August 29, 2009, The San Francisco Chronicle — It's official: City College of San Francisco's on-again, off-again plan to revive some of its 800 canceled classes by soliciting donations of $6,000 per class is on again - mostly.
Emagazine — The groups that act as stewards for the earth’s oceans, land, water and wildlife are facing a new battle: the poor economy. With the national unemployment rate hovering around 9.5%—the highest it’s been in 25 years—and more than 14.5 million Americans out of work, funding for the nation’s large and small environmental nonprofits has stalled, forcing them to reexamine their core priorities.
RALEIGH, N.C., August 28, 2009 — A new report on the economy's impact on nonprofits sheds light on the struggles of these community organizations at a time when intervention can still do some good. The study by the National Council of Nonprofits reveals that nonprofits are trying to meet increasing demands for more services at the same time that their operating costs escalate and their revenues decline. The report examines findings from four national and nine state-specific surveys.
August 26, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — Seventy-two percent of Americans say they have cut back the time they spend volunteering and performing other civic activities in the past year — largely as the result of the recession, according to the study by the National Conference on Citizenship.
Washington, August 26, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — Americans reported making donations of $46.8-billion in noncash gifts in 2006, counting only the taxpayers who took total deductions of more than $500 for such gifts during the year, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service.
August 25, 2009, Bloomberg — Swarthmore College, perennially ranked among the top liberal arts colleges, was among a select few to replace loans with grants to 50 percent of its 1,500 students as the endowment peaked at $1.4 billion two years ago.
August 23, 2009, Jacksonville.com — As he mowed his lawn on a recent Saturday morning, the head of Jacksonville's public broadcasting station mulled over the plight of local nonprofits.
August 21, 2009, The New York Times — At a social service agency on Staten Island where budget cuts forced the layoff of a driver, the staff scrambles to arrange transportation to Brooklyn for an elderly homeless woman whose family has agreed to take her in.
August 20, 2009, The Seattle Times — Jeff Raikes has kept a pretty low profile in his first year as chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The man who built Microsoft Office now runs the largest private foundation in the world, which gives out more than $3 billion a year from an endowment of $30 billion.
