Nonprofits Brace for Slowdown in Giving

By MIKE SPECTOR and SHELLY BANJO in the Wall Street Journal September 22, 2008 The turmoil on Wall Street could further curb a giving environment that was already slowing down. The failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and pain at other big firms threaten to cut into the corporate and individual donations that more than a million nonprofit organizations rely on for basic operations and charitable programs.