If there is a nonprofit organization that you believe is doing really good work, and you are seriously considering making a substantial donation to it, you have got to find out one fact above all other facts. You have to find out exactly what the organization is doing to raise up successors. I have been associated with a number of good organizations. But the fact that they have been good organizations in the past in no way guaranteed that they would be good organizations in the future. I always come back to the classic example: the Foundation for Economic Education. … Continue reading Before Making a Donation to a Non-Profit