March 25, 2009, The New York Times — When the City University of New York began an ambitious fund-raising campaign in 2004, the first in the system’s history, some were skeptical. “People were nervous at the time because it was new,” said Matthew Goldstein, the chancellor and himself a City College alumnus.
Three senators introduced legislation Tuesday intended to encourage foundations to give away more of their money.
Kellie-Jeanne Smith, a bride-to-be from Roslindale, made a big decision Friday.
Two years ago, a charity called Women Arise went to the Hudson-Webber Foundation with a plea for help.
Responding to the financial crisis, American companies sharply reduced their spending on direct-mail marketing last year, according to the Winterberry Group, a marketing consultancy. Winterberry said this was the first such decline in more than 60 years of record-keeping. The company arrived at the figures by surveying 305 companies in the direct-mail industry.
NEAL BENEZRA is not a showman. But as museum directors nationwide face plummeting endowments and potentially crippling budget cuts, Mr. Benezra’s even-keeled approach and penchant for collaboration in his stewardship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art may be a blueprint for how to endure the financial uncertainty.
The ordinary scenes of Habitat for Humanity — volunteers with saws and hammers creating homes from scratch on empty dirt — are being upended here.
Some 150 yoga fanatics, mats in hand, gathered in the second-floor atrium of the Museum of Modern Art one recent Saturday morning. They were there to “Put the oM in MoMA,” as the invitation read.
When even the Metropolitan Museum of Art is laying off staff members, what do you do if your financial base is less Fifth Avenue and more Queens Boulevard?
People who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts, according to a new study examining the experience of 24 nonprofit groups.
