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Ken Stern

Ken Stern is the CEO of Palisades Media and the author of With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give. He was formerly the CEO of National Public Radio.

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DISCOVER AMERICA

How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right

Washington, DC, resident and lifelong Democrat Ken Stern took a year or so to search out and confront his purported Red State enemies. He was utterly changed by what he discovered.

Ken Stern

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What Scandal?

Right On, IRS!

What’s so bad about the IRS investigating nonprofit applications?

Ken Stern

articles/2013/02/26/how-charities-fail-your-money-and-how-to-fix-them/130224-charity-for-all-tease_gocnus
The One Percent

How We Can Fix Charities

<p>Every year, two-thirds of American households donate to charities, giving in excess of $1 trillion. In a new book, <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/With-Charity-All-Charities-Failing/dp/038553471X/">With Charity for All</a></i>, the former CEO of NPR outlines how charitable organizations are failing, and offers some steps on what all donors should do before we give.</p>

Ken Stern

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