MAKING YOUR MONEY WORK FOR THE CAUSE

The frontier for nonprofits these days is impact. How do you measure the social good you do? For that matter, how do you measure which cultural arts are worthwhile or what kind of educational efforts will be effective a decade down the road? What does “success” mean in the charitable arena? Lately, forward-looking practitioners are […]


SOMETIMES THE CAUSE FINDS YOU RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY ROUND

For many people, the intensity of need or the pain of injustice means that the cause chooses you because you can’t walk away or ignore it. That’s how it was for Dr. Astrid Heger. It may seem unthinkable today, but in 1983, when Heger, a pediatrician, volunteered to work at Los Angeles County Hospital + […]