Several times a month, I receive a message from somewhere far, far away. They all want to raise money in America. And they all want someone else to raise it ...

Imagine if there was a switch that turned on and off the nonprofit sector just as Congress shutdown the US government in September 2013. Many hospitals would...

This week I received a call from a breast cancer charity.  The organization was new to me.  And clearly I was an unknown to them as well. Within the first fi...

Dear ________, Thank you for a great thirtieth high school reunion! The campus looked wonderful, something that made many of us at once envious and suspiciou...

Since the financial meltdown in 2008, philanthropists have become a frequent piñata for pundits and public alike. First it was the soft criticism that high-i...

In 1993, as a new employee at a wealth screening company, I was invited to visit an Ivy League university to discuss a possible project.  I walked into the o...