This article that makes suggestions on how donors should choose a charity appeared in the Globe and Mail May 9, 2009
Category Archives: News
Helping Themselves
With fewer donations and declining investments, nonprofits are thinking creatively about cutting costs and raising revenue
click here for Wall Street Journal article May 1, 2009
Patient Capital
Social entrepreneurship can take many forms. Patient capital is one of them. The underlying concept is the same combing entrepreneurial mission with social mission.
Here is a link to a presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz on the use of “patient capital” in Africa
NON-PROFIT CHARITIES AT RISK
Between 10,000 and 12,000 of Canada’s non-profits will fall victim to the current economic downturn, warns the head of a Toronto-based think-tank.
That’s one of every five or six of Canada’s approximately 60,000 non-profits, Rick Blickstead told representatives of charities, government and academia at Carleton University last week.
RESEARCH FINDS THAT KIDS MORE SUCCESSFUL IF WE CAN KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL
Researcher finds that teens more successful when access to welfare tight
Vancouver Sun June 5, 2008 – A newly released research study confirms what foster care advocates have been saying for years that keeping children in a family unit rather than placing them on welfare benefits both the child and the community.