New CEO Mark Everson has resigned after six months on the job for having relations with a chapter executive in Mississippi (giving new meaning to Katrina relief). But the Red Cross has made its greatest strides under interim leadership over the last decade, calling into question whether the organization really needs a high profile chief—and whether they can find one.
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.
The new president of the Ford Foundation commits to continuity, while the organization remains best known for projects it sponsored a over a generation ago.
A historian of charities and a lawyer revive interest in charity organizations that combine national and grassroots perspectives in a federated structure.
Harvard provides an example of the claims being made about the business opportunity of lending to the poor, thirty years after the founding of the Grameen Bank.
Beefed up development staffs generate record results, going after new money using a range of approaches from traditional golf events to small dinners and tours with a focus on venture medicine.
