Sept. 11 Museum to Charge $24 Admission for Tickets – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Sept. 11 Museum to Charge $24 Admission for Tickets – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Sept. 11 Museum to Charge $24 Admission for Tickets

The board of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum voted Thursday to set a mandatory $24 entry fee for the institution set to open at the World Trade Center site in May, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Greg Mortenson Explains His Downfall to NBC’s Tom Brokaw - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Greg Mortenson Explains His Downfall to NBC’s Tom Brokaw - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: t’s difficult to know whether Greg Mortenson’s recent explanations of his fabricated Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools and of his charity’s misuse of funds are a buy or a sell. Would you buy Mortenson’s rationalizations after his mounds of made-up stories of his purported experiences in Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, or might you rate his statements in an interview with Tom Brokaw just more of what led to his public exposure and the subsequent investigations of his charity, the Central Asia Institute?

Proof that Social Enterprise Can Succeed as It Fails - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Proof that Social Enterprise Can Succeed as It Fails - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: Bixi has been something of a poster child for social enterprise. It is a nonprofit with local public backing pursuing a global social agenda through a business enterprise. This nonprofit is behind the bike-sharing programs in New York City, Melbourne, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, and many other cities. It successfully helped to establish roots for bike sharing, with 37,000 bikes in use around the world, but now it has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Bixi owes Montreal about $40 million in loans, which the city is now calling in, and it is estimated that the nonprofit owes its suppliers about $9 million. Still, although the organization has run into a wall, the programs it engendered will not.

Mulva Family Donates $60 Million to Business and Engineering Schools | News

Mulva Family Donates $60 Million to Business and Engineering Schools | News: AUSTIN, Texas — The Mulva Family Foundation has made a $60 million multiyear pledge to The University of Texas at Austin to support the McCombs School of Business and the Cockrell School of Engineering, once again demonstrating a deep commitment to the university’s future and to a continued vision of excellence in teaching and research.

A Network Way of Working: A Compilation of Considerations about Effectiveness in Networks - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

A Network Way of Working: A Compilation of Considerations about Effectiveness in Networks - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: A Network Way of Working: A Compilation of Considerations about Effectiveness in Networks

Who Better To Talk To? | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits

Who Better To Talk To? | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits: If you are seriously interested in arresting your nonprofit’s declining retention rate, there are several approaches you can take — tactical improvements to your cultivation and renewal streams, improving ‘customer service’ aspects of your operations, telling a more compelling story (delivering both emotion and results).

Of course these are not mutually exclusive approaches … probably all are neede