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The Nonprofit Quarterly

The Take Away | Spring 2010

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The Editors

altFrom the best social message–media campaigns, to straight financial talk about nonprofits in the recession, to what hppens when a donor becomes tainted, read here a summary of the articles in our Spring 2010 magazine.

 

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The Way We Write Is All Wrong: Fixing the Broken Discourse of Fundraising

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Frank C. Dickerson, Ph.D.

Fundraising tactics suffer from a serious disconnect between theory and practice. The good news is that addressing these problems in your own work can help you communicate more effectively with donors and help your organization succeed.

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CNCS Says the Social Innovation Fund Will Release Ratings

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Ruth McCambridge

According to the New York Times, the Social Innovation Fund has agreed to release the ratings of its review panels, a move that will very likely help observers understand why some groups about which there were questions, proceeded through the process to become grantees despite the fact that they received the lowest ratings from some panels. We believe this is a major step towards restoring attention to the substance, rather than to the process, of the SIF's work.

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Youth Villages: A Research-Rich Organization

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Ruth McCambridge

A new report says that in Tennessee, the system of care for foster children has been able to reduce the number of children in foster care over the past ten years by a staggering 34 percent. The outcomes are the result of a new approach that was informed by the research driven practice of Youth Villages. Read our profile of the group first published in our Spring 2006 issue.

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Declaration of Connection

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The Editors

In service to transparency, we would like to inform our readers that the Nonprofit Quarterly’s board member and general counsel, Scott Harshbarger of the firm Proskauer Rose, has been hired by ACORN to review some of its procedures and policies governing staff intake and service work that led to the pimp/prostitute sting.

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