Ripped from the Headlines

What can we learn from some cautionary tales from recent news stories about nonprofits?

Headline 1:  “Donors Demand Return of Historic $100 Million University Donation.”  (Fortunately, for the university’s sake, “only” $22.9 million has actually been received.)  But before you start chuckling about how you are unlikely to ever be so lucky as to receive a $23 million gift, let alone a $100 million gift, stop.  The lesson of this headline isn’t in the amount that the donors want back but in the university’s (perceived) failure Read more