April 9, 2008
Networking for Charity launched
website connecting donors with industry leaders, celebrities while raising money for charity; users may request meetings with industry leaders, celebrities in exchange for donations to charity.
July 2, 2009
Twenty-five nonprofit journalism groups endorsed The Pocantico Declaration: Creating a Nonprofit Investigative News Network, calling new journalism initiatives to give Americans watchdog reporting essential to democracy.
July 2, 2009
John E. Kobara, head of external and donor relations, California Community Foundation, named executive vice president and chief operating officer.
July 1, 2009
Ronald McDonald House Charities celebrating 35th anniversary by creating
website where visitors can share personal stories of how the charity has touched their lives.
July 1, 2009
Managing Executive Transitions, A Guide for Nonprofits, by Tim Wolfred, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, published by FIeldstone Alliance.
June 30, 2009
Peggy Duxbury, former director of governmental and regulatory affairs at Seattle City Light, named program officer for environment program at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
June 30, 2009
Nominations for 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Awards accepted through July 31; enter tagline
online and receive 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report.
June 30, 2009
Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets -- Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress, by Steven H. Goldberg, published by John Wiley & Sons.
June 29, 2009
Advent Conspiracy used website redesign to raise over $1.5 million for fresh-water wells in underdeveloped countries.
June 26, 2009
Folds of Honor Foundation, Tulsa, Okla., named Ginny Creveling president and chief operative officer.
June 26, 2009
David Levinson, founder and executive director, Big Sunday, named nonprofit leader of the year at 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
June 25, 2009
Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone, to receive 2009 John W. Gardner Leadership Award, Independent Sector.
June 24, 2009
Chris Noble of LW Robbins, Holliston, Mass., and Brett Jones of DaVinci Direct Partners, Plymouth, Mass., named vice presidents of fundraising, DMW Worldwide, Plymouth, Mass.
June 24, 2009
The St. Baldrick's Foundation has raised over $66 million since 2000 for childhood cancer research and held over 2,300 events where over 100,000 volunteers had their heads shaved.
June 23, 2009
Charity Dynamics and FreeCause combining Boundless Fundraising and SnapCMS products to better mobilize clients' social-networking communities to increase fundraising and support.
June 23, 2009
Rockefeller Foundation and InnoCentive Inc. inviting nonprofits to submit challenges to web-based network of science, engineering, technology, business experts, who could receive funding to solve problems; details
online.