A number of different twelve-step programs with a focus on sex addiction have been around for over twenty five years, but remain marginal compared to Alcoholics Anonymous—like most of the other spin-off groups other than NA and Al-Anon.
A study of more than fifty organizations in Baltimore with income from $1 million to $50 million shows that close to 90% rely on just one line on the Form 990 for more than half their income. Even more notable: the lion's share of private contributions go to organizations that make private contributions their primary source of income.
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?)
Thousands of inactive (or just inattentive) charities face official extinction with the introduction of an annual filing requirement for every registered US charity.
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.
