Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose Bethel U. (Minn.) Oct. 2006 May 2008 $105,000,000 $67,300,000 For the annual fund, endowment, and facilities Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (N.Y.)…
Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Undraye Howard, executive director of My Home, Your Home (Milwaukee), to be director of consultation and leadership development. Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod & the Islands (Hyannis, Mass.): Appointed Alisa M. Galazzi, director of…
Following are summaries of recent reports by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. This private group reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The alliance does not approve or disapprove of charities, and urges potential donors…
The IRS audited 7,079 nonprofit organizations in the 2006 fiscal year, which ended September 30, an increase of 40 percent over the previous year, according to a statement from Internal Revenue Commissioner Mark W. Everson. “These results show we are taking important steps to combat abuse in exempt…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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A Plea for Transparency: An Excerpt From a New Book on Philanthropy
In his new book, The Foundation: A Great American Secret — How Private Wealth Is Changing the World, Joel L. Fleishman, a professor at Duke University, offers ideas on how to make grant makers more accountable. Following is an excerpt from the book, which will be released next month by…
A Scholar’s Analysis of Grant-Making Successes — and Failures
In his book on American foundations, Joel Fleishman, head of a foundation-research program at Duke University, provides several case studies as a way to show grant makers and scholars why some projects have made more of a difference to society than others.
In a new book, scholar Joel Fleishman urges foundations to ‘open their doors.’
By Suzanne Perry
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Corporate giving. The White House and the Conference Board (New York) have presented the 2006 Ron Brown Awards for Corporate Leadership in employee and community…
An International-Aid Leader Takes Over as Head of a Big Foundation
When Kathryn Wolford visits Nicaraguan coffee farmers or tsunami-weary Indonesians, she is rarely the ALSO SEE: Bio: About Kathryn Wolford, President, the McKnight Foundation sort of person those grantees might expect. For one thing, Ms. Wolford, who last week left her job as head of Lutheran World…
By Caroline Preston
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‘Fortune’: Growth of Teach for America
Teach for America has become one of the largest job destinations for graduating college students, hiring more college seniors than Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, or General Electric, says an article in Fortune magazine (November 27). Driven by the dedication of the nonprofit group’s founder, Wendy…
By Harvy Lipman
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