Mike Daisey: The bard of personal finance - at the Public Theater
5:15 PM 12/11/2009
The glass bowl filled to the rim with dollar bills didn't look like any old tip jar. Resting on the wood table behind which Mike Daisey had just performed his monologue "The Last Cargo Cult" at the Public Theater in New York, the bowl of money seemed to glow.
The green never looked so green. The...
$1.6 million raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at 'Taste of New York'
5:45 PM 11/13/2009
Raising money for a good cause and eating your heart out is a pretty powerful combination. In its 20 years, the Wall Street "Taste of New York" has raised nearly $30 million to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital continue its groundbreaking research and lifesaving care for children battling...
Money dish from WalletPop's panel on 'How We're Living Now' with the Huffington Post
11:00 AM 6/23/2009
The key to thriving in the new economy is understanding why we do things, not just knowing how to do them.That was one of the takeaways of a panel last night at the Morrison Hotel Gallery featuring WalletPop contributors Jason Cochran, Zac Bissonnette, and Bruce Watson; Huffington Post senior...
Buyouts at Ford Foundation show no sector is immune to layoffs
1:30 PM 6/12/2009
A buyout or pink slip may be less hard to swallow when you know your sacrifice helps preserve programs that help the neediest communities in the world. At least, that's how the Ford Foundation is spinning its latest cost-cutting move: An offer of buyouts to staff members at its New York City and...
The Giving USA Foundation annual survey, a report on American philanthropy funded by the nonprofit fund-raising industry and conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, was released today, and the results conform to the times: Charitable giving was down 2% in 2008, or 5.7% when...
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