The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Human services. The Caring Institute (Washington) has announced the recipients of its 2006 National Caring Awards, which honor people who have worked to improve the…
Database Offers Information on Federal Grants, Contracts
A new Web site features a searchable database of federal grants and contracts. FedSpending was created by OMB Watch, a government-watchdog organization, which says it started the site after years of frustration at not being able to get information about the money spent by the federal government.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site to Help Companies Improve Disaster Aid
Companies played an important role in relief efforts after the South Asian tsunamis and Hurricane Katrina. Now a new Web site hopes to encourage even more business involvement. The Partnership for Disaster Response — a committee formed by the Business Roundtable, an association of 160 corporate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Network for Good Hits $100-Million Mark
Online donations through Network for Good, a giving portal that allows donors to contribute to any charity in the country, hit the $100-million mark on September 3 — and the Bethesda, Md., organization has published an analysis of those gifts. Network for Good says the total amount given through…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Campaign Raises Money for Darfur
MySpace, the Los Angeles company that runs the social-networking Web site, is spearheading a campaign to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and money for relief efforts. Rock for Darfur will feature more than 20 concerts in cities across the country on October 21. Participating…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Former Financial Officer Faces Charges in Museum Debt Crisis
Eighteen months after the Milwaukee Public Museum, one of the largest natural-history museums in the country, shocked the city by revealing that it was in a financial crisis, one of its top executives appears to be the only one to face criminal charges in the museum’s near collapse. Terry A.…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
More low-cost-housing groups are incorporating environmentally friendly practices into their work Denny Park Apartments boasts a multitude of features designed to reduce the toll the new building takes on the environment — and save its residents money. The apartment house, constructed by the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
High gas and utility costs prompt changes at some charities For the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in New York, high gas prices in recent months were a matter of life or death. Literally. As autumn approached, the charity learned that soaring prices were causing the city…
By Scott Westcott
Contributor
Nobel Prize Win Focuses Attention on Microfinance
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus this month may provide a lift to the already rapidly growing field of microfinance, and bring financial services to a larger percentage of the world’s poor, microfinance experts say. In 1976, Mr. Yunus founded the…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Failure to Adapt to Major Societal Changes Could Cause Big Trouble, Fund Raisers Told
Big changes sweeping across society and the financial world mean fund raisers need to overhaul their approaches to seeking planned gifts or risk major losses in donations, said two speakers at the annual meeting of the National Committee on Planned Giving here. Jeffrey W. Comfort, senior director…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor