A marathon online event using a mind-numbing simulation of a bus driving across the desert gets enough buzz to fuel four days of fundraising. But your results may vary.
Alaskans are unusually generous—or there's something else going on—for an embezzler to make off with $75,000 from local chapters of two name-brand charities.
Product placement in a comic strip puts the focus on a well-promoted online charity venture. But a look at the financial statements suggests that there may be bottlenecks ahead as the organization tries to scale up.
Civil society (the local Cambridge version) puts a damper on architectural visions, while on the other side of town MIT manages to soar with the eagles.
Large and small mergers are steadily cutting the number of United Way organizations in the US, but community fears of losing out in funding allocations are the chief obstacle to administrative streamlining.
Senator Arlen Specter questions Matt Peskin's pay, which exceeds his own as a US Senator, in the face of caps set on salaries paid under Federal grants. But Mr. Peskin says it's none of the government's business, because it's paid for by T-shirt sales, not government grants.
Their clothing collection boxes are popping up all over the country, along with local stories questioning where how the group operates and where the money goes. To no avail.
Shared vision is largely absent from a twenty-four-hour blogging event to raise money for charity, which could be why it wasn't more successful. And the winner was online editor for a newspaper in Midland, Texas, who blogged from a 30-foot Genie scissors lift in a grocery store parking lot (isn't that cheating?)
