Accountability

As his NFL career began in Indianapolis, I had the honor of working with Peyton Manning on a capital campaign I directed to build the St. Vincent Children’s Hospital, later to be renamed the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent. I noticed early on that he always was prepared for every meeting, interview, event and activity. He was all business and knew his role...

Fundraising is such a misunderstood enterprise. And it’s not just misunderstood by nonprofit leaders in the trenches. The other day, I was talking to a foundation program officer, who is normally very savvy and wondered if one of his struggling grantees should think about launching a new gala event to raise some additional money. I…

Scrutiny of the Wounded Warrior Project has increased since reports have questioned the nonprofit’s spending. It’s not known if the reporting is 100 percent accurate, and the organization denies any wrongdoing, but the attention has pushed the nonprofit to act....

Eight years ago, Eric Suder decided he wanted to use some of the fortune he had made in telecommunications technology to help students who were the first in their families to attend college. His family foundation chose eight universities to receive $1 million to $2 million over four years. The money from the program, called…

Consultants, just like other fundraising professionals, have a responsibility to treat donors with respect and hold any private information in confidence. Donor relationships are not meant to be transferred when a fundraising professional leaves one organization and goes to another. Likewise, they are not to be purportedly brokered by a fundraising consultant. Neither in practice is effective for very long....

Peekskill, N.Y, Mayor Frank Catalina is pushing to establish new rules nonprofits must follow before the city selects them to distribute federal and state funds, including a ban on awarding grants to elected officials. In an email Saturday afternoon to council members, Catalina wrote that he plans to work with the city manager and city…

International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people and decimated already weak health care systems, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam said Sunday. The remaining $3.9 billion pledged has been difficult to track because of "scant information" and…

Here we go again. Another GOP debate, another Donald Trump demand for a donation to charities in exchange for his presence. We can’t say we were surprised. We had hoped this “strong-arm philanthropy,” as we called it, was done with. But, we knew better. This time was a little different, though. And other candidates played their own roles in the debacle...

Wounded Warrior Project has responded to a CBS News investigation that called the charity's spending "out of control." In a letter addressed to CBS executive director Al Ortiz and posted to Wounded Warrior Project's website, Wounded Warrior Project called the news network's reporting "patently false" and demanded that CBS retract "false statements" and apologize to the public and "tens of thousands of wounded veterans."...

There are many benefits to becoming a service-club volunteer, including giving back to the community, making new friends who have a variety of interests, listening weekly to speakers who are community thought leaders, engaging in social activities and business-networking. You get out what you put into it. For nonprofit pros, there is also another very important benefit...