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about her difculty taking examinations, remembering

certain information and learning in group settings.

But Judge Ponsor ruled that even if those two

pieces of evidence were enough to show that she

suffered from an impairment, they were insuf-

cient to establish that she was “disabled” under

the statute.

He also said that even if Williams had established

a disability, the record was clear that the corps did

not deny a reasonable accommodation, because it

had attempted to work with her and had accommo-

dated her in a number of ways. Finally, he ruled that

by refusing to retake the test, Williams was herself

responsible for the breakdown in communications

and had left the corps in the dark about what she

wanted or claimed she needed.

[Williams v. Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action

Corps Inc., U.S. District Court for the District of

Massachusetts, No. 12-cv-30176, 08/06/2014]. ■

BoardSource offers glimpse into latest

nonprot governance research

BoardSource recently released key ndings from its

one-of-a-kind survey of board chairs and nonprot

executives.

Known originally as the “BoardSource Nonprot

Governance Index,” the renamed “2014 Leading

with Intent: A National Index of Nonprot Board

Practices” goes to the heart of nonprot leadership’s

boardroom experiences.

A preview of the report’s key ndings includes:

•  Overall, boards earned a B- when evaluated by

their board chairs and nonprot executives.

•  Roughly 50 percent of respondents said their

organizations expanded or added services.

•  Sixty percent of those surveyed experienced 100

percent board giving.

•  51 percent of boards conducted a formal written

board self-assessment in the last three years.

•  Only 22 percent of boards have a formal written

public advocacy agenda.

At press time, the in-depth reports had yet to be re-

leased. A short preview of the key ndings is available

at https://www.boardsource.org/eweb/images/bds2012/

Leading-with-intent-PV.pdf.

News

CAF’s 2014 World Giving Index

available

The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)—an orga-

nization dedicated to motivating society to give ever

more effectively and helping to transform lives and

communities around the world—has released its

2014 World Giving Index, which examines charitable

behavior across 135 countries.

The CAF research found that only one of the 15

CEP research: Funders aren’t

supporting feedback activities

Foundations are not providing sufcient funding

for their nonprot partners to gather feedback from

their beneciaries to gauge how well they are serv-

ing their needs, according to new research from the

Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP).

The CEP data found that most nonprots are

engaged in soliciting such feedback to some extent,

but in many cases they lack the nancial resources

and staff with the skills and knowledge to do so. The

study found that nearly three out of ve respondents

felt that a lack of resources was a key challenge to

accurately assessing how well they were addressing

the needs of their beneciaries, and the majority of

nonprot leaders say their foundation funders don’t

thoroughly understand the needs of those they intend

to help.

To read the complete report, visit http://www

.effectivephilanthropy.org. ■

countries with the largest increase between their 2013

giving score and their ve-year average score was clas-

sied as a high-income country by the World Bank.

The United States came in ninth on the report’s list

of “Top 10 countries by participation in donating

money.”

Researchers said this year’s report includes an

analysis of levels of giving worldwide, an index of

all countries ranked by their average on three mea-

sures of giving behavior, insight into uctuations in

the three giving behaviors and recommendations for

governments around the world to enhance giving.

To learn more or to download the complete re-

port, visit https://www.cafonline.org/publications/

2014-publications/world-giving-index-2014.aspx.