Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
202-466-1046
Marilyn Dickey is senior editor for copy at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She previously worked for the Washingtonian magazine and Washingtonpost.com and has written or edited for the Discovery Channel, Jossey-Bass Publishers, the National Institutes of Health, Self magazine, and many others.
Stories by this Author
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Philanthropy This Week
Nonprofit Unions Are Here; Tax Credits Are Still Helping Nonprofits Bounce Back From Pandemic
Plus, how philanthropy can help envision a brighter future for America (opinion), and a donor’s observation leads to a popular exhibit of works by Black artists at a hospital -
Major Gifts
New Johns Hopkins Center to End Blindness the Result of a Donor’s Personal Mission
The Sanford and Susan Greenberg Center to End Blindness is halfway to its $100 million goal to fund promising researchers in their 20s and 30s. -
Donor Enlists Top Scientists and Philanthropists to End Blindness
A mix of people have helped shape Sanford Greenberg’s campaign in different ways —David Rockefeller, Jonas Salk, Nobel laureates. even Art Garfunkel and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. -
News
Interim Leaders Bring Skills but No Personal Agendas to Their Tasks
Two years ago, a nonprofit group asked Pat Nichols to take over as its interim executive director. Contributions to the organization had been dropping for more than a decade. ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: More Than a Temporary Fix Employee turnover in its financial department was rapid, so the organization… -
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More Than a Temporary Fix
Interim executive directors can help solve problems and revitalize a charity, nonprofit experts say Losing two executive directors within a year was a crushing blow to the board of Paul’s Place, a homeless shelter and community center in Owings Mills, Md. “We’d lost a really loved executive… -
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The Wolverine Way
$2.5-billion campaign by U. of Michigan nears its goal, thanks to the tenacious efforts of its leaders Five years ago, the University of Michigan faced some potentially devastating problems at the start of its campaign to raise $2.5-billion: The president, Lee C. Bollinger, suddenly decided to… -
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Opening the Door to More
Charities are tapping the talents of disabled helpers to diversify the face of their volunteer work forceWhen Nancie Ozimkowski was attending a conference on disability issues in Hawaii back in March, she was ALSO SEE:Article: Tips for Managing Volunteers With Disabilities invited to join some… -
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Resources and Tips for Conducting Online Surveys
TOOLS AND TRAINING Choosing a site to do a Web survey can be a matter of trial and error. Fortunately, though, most sites make that process easy by allowing free trials — usually either ALSO SEE:Article: Online Surveys Help Charities Save Time and Money by offering access for a fixed period at no… -
Opinion
Online Surveys Help Charities Save Time and Money
TOOLS AND TRAINING By Marilyn Dickey For members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, getting the results of the group’s survey of fund raisers’ ALSO SEE:Article: Resources and Tips for Conducting Online Surveys salaries and benefits is one of the most valued perks of membership in the… -
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Young Multimillionaires Are Stingier Than Older Ones, Study Finds
Older wealthy people give a far bigger share of their assets to charity than their younger counterparts, according to a study by NewTithing Group, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that ALSO SEE: Giving As A Percentage of Income: How Older and Younger People Differ Twenty-Nine Percent of…
