by Jennifer Filla | Mar 13, 2023 | Learning Edge Blog, News, Rhode Warrior Blog
by Mark Noll, Rhode Warrior Blogger Greetings from the Florida beach. I retired a few months ago and am loving every moment of it. Despite not being in the workforce any longer, I still keep up on everything in the world of Philanthropy. Lately, I’ve been seeing a...
by Jennifer Filla | Feb 3, 2021 | Learning Edge Blog, News, Rhode Warrior Blog
by Rhode Warrior Blogger, Mark Noll It has been some time since I have written a blog. I have had topics I wanted to discuss but it just seemed as though the timing didn’t feel right. The landscape seemed so different and I felt that my penchant for sarcasm...
by Jennifer Filla | Mar 10, 2019 | Learning Edge Blog, News
Image by qimono on Pixabay by Jennifer Filla There’s been quite a bit written about Donor Advised Funds, otherwise known as DAFs. The Institute’s resident provocateur, Rhode Warrior blogger Mark Noll, highlights some of the negative effects of DAFs, such as the...
by Gayla Scrivener | Jan 9, 2019 | Learning Edge Blog, News, Rhode Warrior Blog
by Rhode Warrior Blogger, Mark Noll Prospect Research has gone through some very interesting changes since I started back in the late 20th century. When you consider that my first office was in the library and my job consisted of poring over dusty volumes large enough...
by Gayla Scrivener | Jun 21, 2018 | Learning Edge Blog, News, Rhode Warrior Blog
by Rhode Warrior, Mark Noll In the past ten years or so, charitable giving has seen the rise of a “middle man” who disguises himself as a charitable vehicle when he is, in fact, nothing more than self-serving money monger. This person goes under the nom de guerre of a...