With eye on corporate funding, NGOs head back to school - livemint

With eye on corporate funding, NGOs head back to school - livemint: "New Delhi: Lakshmi Krishnan has spent nearly three decades working on behalf of disadvantaged women and children. By all accounts, she’s an expert on what it takes to run a model non-profit aid society that keeps girls from the Capital’s slums in schools and teaches women ways to make their own money and stay healthy. But recently, the president of Society for the Promotion of Women & Child Welfare found herself somewhere unexpected—in the classroom. Along with about a dozen others, she was attending a course, , that aims to teach those in key positions at non governmental organizations (NGOs) how to improve their fund-raising skills and make their operations more transparent."