A Veteran Arts Leader Returns to the Nashville Ballet
When Andrea Dillenburg, marketing director at the Nashville Ballet, followed her husband to his new job and moved to Atlanta in 1999, she figured she’d see Music City again only as a visitor. In the years that followed, Ms. Dillenburg, now 44, worked as a fund raiser at the Atlanta Symphony…
By nicole lewis
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Animal Groups Merge Operations
The Humane Society of the United States and the Doris Day Animal League have merged. The two Washington animal-advocacy organizations have worked together on many projects in recent years, such as providing aid to pets after Hurricane Katrina and fighting the use of animals in testing household…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
AT&T Donates Technology, Internet Service to Poor
AT&T has announced that it will provide free or discounted technology equipment and free Internet service to 50,000 low-income households over the next three years. The One Economy Corporation, a nonprofit group in Washington dedicated to providing poor families with access to Internet technology,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity E-Mail Messsages Snagged by Spam Filters
A study of nearly 1,000 e-mail messages sent by 28 nonprofit organizations and political groups over a two-month period found that 24 percent of the messages did not make it to the e-mail boxes of the people who requested them. The finding is roughly the same as last year’s study, in which 27…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Helps Charities Track Product Inventories
The Aidmatrix Foundation, in Dallas, has built technology systems linking companies that have surplus products with charities that can put those supplies to good use. The organization’s software also helps charities track their supplies internally. The fees that charities pay for the technology…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Retirees Working for ‘Experience Corps’ in Urban Schools
Rewards of Giving: An In-Depth Study of Older Adults’ Volunteer Experiences in Urban Elementary Schools, by Becca Raley, examines a program that links retired people with needy students. Commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report interviewed 43 Experience Corps volunteers, older…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Guide for Foundations That Want to Offer Loans, Other Investments to Charities
Program-Related Investing: Skills and Strategies for New PRI Funders, by Neil Carlson, gives wary foundations a beginner’s guide to program-related investments, or those “made by foundations in support of charitable purposes, with the explicit understanding that those investments will earn…
By Anne W. Howard
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Kresge Foundation’s Efforts to Build Strong Development Offices at Historically Black Colleges
Changing the Odds: Lessons Learned From the Kresge HBCU Initiative, by Billie Sue Schulze, provides the results of a Kresge Foundation program aimed at helping small colleges establish or improve their development offices. Five historically black colleges and universities — Bethune-Cookman College,…
By Anne W. Howard
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How Arts Organizations Can Work More Closely With Governments
The Arts and State Governments: At Arm’s Length or Arm in Arm?, by Julia F. Lowell and Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, explores the relationship between politics and state arts organizations. The report draws from a larger study commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, which looked at “the changing…
By Anne W. Howard
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How Charities Can Steal Marketing Ideas From the Private Sector
Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes
By Anne W. Howard
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