Check out the Jewish Week’s special section on giving.
The section covers a bunch of topics, including:
- Some new projects at the Hebrew Free Loan Society in New York such as a micro-lending program for small businesses. The HFSL has given away $2.4 million in business loans of up to $25,000 each in the past two years, mostly to immigrants and the ultra-Orthodox, the Jewish Week reports.
- A Q&A with Leonard Glickman, the CEO of the $215 million FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds. He touches on the wisdom and strengths in donor advise funds, the state of philanthropy and the effect of Bernie Madoff on non-profits:"I think the initial shock has been absorbed. The organizations that took a hit in a big way are sorting themselves out. The Madoff affair opened the eyes of those who were not as concerned as they needed to be about fiduciary responsibility of charitable dollars. Obviously if you were affected, you were lax,” he said.
- As well as a story about how some non-profits are getting by with less.
