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New York Times, Jan 03, 2009

"If a graduate degree makes sense generally for your career, this period of unemployment could be seen as a window of opportunity," said Jeffrey A. Heath, a managing director of the Landstone Group in Manhattan, an affiliate of the recruitment firm MRINetwork.

New York Times, Sep 12, 2007

There is a huge demand for credentials in high-level jobs now. "Each of my degrees helped me to get a leg up in the job market, and earn higher salaries than I would have otherwise. They were great investments."

Time Out New York, Aug 01, 2007

At one time, you didn’t need any special credentials to go into fund-raising or other kinds of work for non-profits, nor the education that now comes with those credentials. But things have changed. ‘There’s a professionalization of the industry taking place,’ says <b>Lucas Rubin, director of Columbia’s master’s of science program in fund-raising management</b>. ‘It’s been happening gradually over the past 20 years. It’s centered on the idea that there’s a core body of theories and practices you need to learn. There’s a growing professional quality to this field that references the business world—marketing, communications and law. People want to know that their organizations are run efficiently, that their money is going to a good place.

New York Times, Apr 02, 2007

Giving by foundations climbed past $40 billion last year, according to estimates by the Foundation Center, breaking a record of $36.4 billion set in 2005….The number of foundations in the country, the center said, had grown to 71,000 by the end of 2005, the latest year for which data are available in that category. That was an increase of more than 77 percent over a decade. More than 3,000 foundations were added to the ranks in 2005 alone, the third-largest single-year increase on record.