Paul Clolery is officially a "Point of Light"

Paul Clolery is Editor in Chief of NonProfit Times Publishing, which produces the what's-happening and how-to news of fundraising, including 24 print issues and hundreds of online issues per year. (NPA's Rick Christ is a Contributing Editor of the NPT Direct Marketing Edition.)

Paul is a tell-it-like-it-is journalist who models himself after the cigar-smoking curmudgeons of the 1950's newspaper business, before they were replaced by the blow-dried teleprompter-readers of today. He'll just as soon tear your non-profit apart in his paper (if you deserve it) as praise you.

He also walks the walk, inside and outside his official duties. He doesn't just report on conferences; he usually arranges many of the big-name speakers. Not only is he a long-time volunteer rescue squad leader in his community, he's become a well-respected instructor of Emergency Medical Technicians in New Jersey. He trained some of the responders to the terror attacks of the 11th.

So now he's officially been recognized by the Points of Light Foundation. Way cool, friend. You deserve it.

Better Business Bureau Tangled in E-Mail Scam

By Annys Shin

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 14, 2007; Page D03

"The Better Business Bureau network was the target of a "spoofing" scam yesterday in which thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada received e-mails encouraging them to download what is thought to be a computer virus.

The e-mails, using the name of the 95-year-old network of nonprofit groups that looks into consumer complaints, told businesses that they were the subject of a complaint and included a link to view related documents. Clicking on the link, however, accessed the address book of an infected computer and distributed the counterfeit e-mail to more recipients, said Steve Cox, spokesman for the Council of Better Business Bureaus."

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This may be the first serious spoofing campaign aimed at a nonprofit. (If you've heard of another, let us know).