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Center on Philanthropy Study on Donors Paying for Overhead

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiania University has released the results of their study on donors Paying for Overhead. Highlights include the surprising result that 69% of foundations fund overhead expenses (especially within program grants) and the (much less surprising) conclusion that the more dependent you are on foundation funding, the harder the overhead problem is for your organization. Posted: 5/13/07; 10:55:34 PM #

How Creative Mass Non-Violence Beat a Nuke and Launched The Global Green Power Movement

Because of its influence on the movements that followed, I owe much of my political upbringing to the success of the Clamshell Alliance in the late 1970s. Harvey Wasserman was a part of that movement and describes its influence in his article at Freepress.org: How Creative Mass Non-Violence Beat a Nuke and Launched The Global Green Power Movement. Now that I think about it, the current growing global justice movement feels like something of a combination of the Internet and the cutting edge movements of thirty years ago. Posted: 5/13/07; 7:56:42 PM #