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Article: Are 'Do-Gooders' Really Doing Good?
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 15, 1999
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"Why wouldn't we just as well fly over in a helicopter and throw money out the window?!"
This was an actual question posed by a concerned businessman, a former partner in one of Los Angeles' most prominent accounting firms, when being recruited to join the board of an economic development organization. The core of his question, whether a nonprofit organization's programs make a real difference, is the most important issue for everyone involved with a nonprofit, be they donor-investors, board members, volunteers or employees.
In today's nonprofit funding and political environment it has become more important than ever that nonprofit organizations are able to ...
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