Ever heard of a charitable lottery? If you have, do you know what it does? If you haven’t, I don’t blame you. I didn’t either until I read an article about them and visited the Dutch Charity Lotteries, located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Through three main privately owned lotteries (the Dutch Postcode Lottery, the FriendsLottery,… Read more »
The demise of a Silicon Valley start-up called “Theranos” has renewed doubts about whether business and philanthropic purposes can really mix. Although nonprofits have long relied on payments for the services they provide or the goods they produce, critics have denounced the “marketization of the nonprofit sector” as having the potential to corrupt charities, causing… Read more »
If you’re at all like me, you’ve got a pitiful savings account and a sad, sad start to a retirement account. I’ll admit this problem is largely of my own making, but I’m guessing you can empathize. So bear with me. Even with those pennies you’ve been able to save, you’re thinking about how to… Read more »
By Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky This article first appeared in the Chronicle of Philanthropy on April 17, 2019. The 2020 presidential campaign is already underway, and it’s likely to be an especially contentious one. That may lead the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to issue one of its recurrent reminders about what tax-exempt organizations, other… Read more »
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a town steeped in Americana. It was the site of one of the most important battles in the Civil War, memorialized by a cemetery that Abraham Lincoln dedicated with perhaps his most important address. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower lived there; his home and farm are now a national historic site. One… Read more »