Check this article out from the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s daily email:

A Charity Levy for Britain’s Wealthy?
Affluent British people who do not give at least 10 percent of their incomes to charity should pay an equivalent surcharge in taxes, said Frank Field, former welfare reform minister for Britain’s Labour party, according to The Financial Times.
Mr. [...]

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Check out this Reuters story : Frugal librarian amassed $8 million art trove.
With a The Millionaire Next Door feel, librarian Jean Preston ate frozen meals and took the bus.
But she’d collected art work worth more around $8 million.
The lesson I get from this? Any fundraiser that had visited her would’ve noticed the quantity of [...]

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Just read this in the daily update from the Chronicle of Philanthropy:

Large Bequest Surprises Diabetes Charity
An 86-year-old Annapolis woman who died in a house fire last March shocked a diabetes group by bequeathing it the largest donation in the organization’s history — $7.3-million, reports The Washington Post.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which had known Helene [...]

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This is too odd a tale to be made up. Robbing a nonprofit? An employee of World Relief shooting someone? Especially when World Relief is part of the National Association of Evangelicals?
Here’s the entire blurb as seen in today’s daily by the Chronicle of Philanthropy:

“Nonprofit Employee Kills Robber at Office”
A nonprofit worker in Atlanta shot [...]

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Hey, have you heard of BookCrossing.com?
It’s based on the premise that books yearn to be free. So we get to “release” them into the wild. With the special BookCrosing.com ID (or “BCID” for those in the know), others that find can have it for free and it can log in and give reviews. And you [...]

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Seth Godin is always on the cutting edge of things. He’s done it again with squidwho.com.
Who needs a “Who’s Who” in print when you’ve got the internet.
But it feels weird setting up a page for myself. So in the spirit of Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell, I’ll give away a free copy of [...]

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Leona Helmsley’s will is causing quite a stir. In addition to leaving millions of dollars to her dog, the NYTimes says it contains nuggets like:

To receive money from the trusts, the grandsons are required under the will to visit the grave each year of their father, Jay Panzirer, Mrs. Helmsley’s only child, who died on [...]

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The Chronicle on Philanthropy has an interesting blurb on a new term for donors: yawn.
Here’s a taste:

Using a term coined in Great Britain, columnist Robert Frank says extremely rich young people who live humbly and give most of their wealth to charity are “yawns,” writing in an opinion article for The Wall Street Journal.
Yawns [...]

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This picture went with a very flattering article in the paper today.
The reporter did a great job. I only wish he’d included the fact that I said “us” and “we” in the interview, not “I” and “me.” Fundraising is a TEAM sport!
Either way, I’m flattered. I’m sure it takes a HUGE chunk out [...]

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The Don’t Tell the Donor Blog reports on three Red Sox’d themed wines:

Wakefield’s “CaberKnuckle”
Ramirez’s “Manny Being Merlot”
Schilling Schardonnay
What’ll they think of next?!

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