With a small staff and a $1.7-billion goal, a conservation charity looks to volunteers to help snare big gifts from donors Ducks Unlimited, a wetlands-conservation organization, is engaged in a daring endeavor: running a campaign to raise $1.7-billion with a staff of 25 fund raisers. Most other…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Cancer institute sets its sights on a $1-billion fund-raising goal, with the help of a few thousand cyclists By Elizabeth SchwinnThe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s drive to raise $1-billion by 2010 isn’t depending solely on a small group of wealthy donors to provide the largest donations. Instead,…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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As pressure mounts for nonprofit groups to hold billion-dollar campaigns, so do fund-raising challenges By Holly HallTwenty years after fund raisers at Stanford University announced the first fund-raising campaign to raise $1.1-billion in 1987, colleges and universities still dominate the…
By Holly Hall
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Lung Group’s Stair Climb Has a Leg Up on Other Charity Races
By Brennen Jensen In the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago’s largest annual fund-raising event, people are asked to propel themselves a sum total of 1,030 feet. Kind of a wimpy walkathon — not even a fifth of a mile. That is, until you consider that the distance is measured straight…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Humanitarianism. The Charles Bronfman Prize (New York) has presented its 2007 humanitarian award to Amitai Ziv, founder and director of the Israel Center for Medical…
A Social-Service Leader Uses Her Expertise to Tackle Global Problems
One April morning in 1993, Nan Dale was getting ready for work when she paused to watch the dedication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on television. Under a gloomy sky, Elie Wiesel, the author and Holocaust survivor, took the podium and delivered a disturbing message. He warned that…
By Caroline Preston
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Goodwill Spreads Word About Used-Clothing Gifts
TAX WATCH Goodwill Industries is encouraging potential donors of used clothing and household items not to be scared off by a part of the Pension Protection Act that more carefully regulates the tax benefits of such gifts. The charity has offered guidelines for such donors, saying that taxpayers…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Fake Charities on IRS’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ List
The IRS’s annual list of the “dirty dozen” tax schemes includes the use of tax-exempt organizations to improperly shield income or assets from taxation. But two leaders of the Senate Finance Committee say the IRS needs to do more to crack down on nonprofit tax cheats. The IRS’s list, which is made…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Legislation Would Extend IRA Giving Provision
Members of the House and Senate are considering measures that would extend tax incentives to older donors who contribute money to charities through their individual retirement accounts. The incentives are part of the Pension Protection Act, which was passed in August and allows donors older than…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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The History of a Science-Research Fund
NEW BOOKS Research Funding in Neuroscience: A Profile of the McKnight Endowment Fund, by Gabrielle Strobel, recounts the history of the McKnight Foundation’s neuroscience program, established in 1976. William L. McKnight, who endowed the foundation, became interested in how the brain works and how…
By Anne W. Howard
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