More People Seek Food Aid From Charities, Study Finds
More than 25 million people sought food last year from the America’s Second Harvest network of hunger-relief organizations, an 8-percent increase since 2001, a new study has found. Nine million of those receiving aid were children and nearly three million were 65 or older. Thirty-eight percent were…
By Caroline Preston
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Charity Coalition Urges Government to Scrap Antiterrorism Guidelines
A coalition of nonprofit organizations has called on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to scrap new guidelines designed to help prevent foundations and charities from unwittingly financing terrorism. The voluntary guidelines, unveiled by the Treasury Department in December, are a revised version…
By Caroline Preston
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Watchdog, Foundation Cleared in Audit
The IRS has cleared a nonprofit watchdog group in Austin, Tex., and its affiliated charitable foundation of any wrongdoing after a 13-month investigation. The revenue service began examining the two organizations, Texans for Public Justice and the Public Justice Foundation of Texas, in December…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Stern Warnings for the Red Cross
A key senator chides the relief charity over its governance and its emphasis on attracting good publicity Washington For the American Red Cross, “business-as-usual cannot continue.” So says a key U.S. lawmaker as part of his wide-ranging investigation into the multibillion-dollar charity, an…
By Ian Wilhelm
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59 Groups Violated Rules on Electioneering in 2004, IRS Says
Washington Nearly three-quarters of the 82 religious and charitable organizations that the Internal Revenue Service has investigated over allegations of illegal political activity during the 2004 election cycle have been found guilty of violating the law, the revenue service has announced. In most…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Overwhelming duties, low pay cause leaders to leave the top spot The vast majority of nonprofit executive directors are so fed up with their fund-raising responsibilities and other ALSO SEE: TABLE: How charity chief executives feel about their duties challenges that they plan to quit, according to…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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$10-Million Pledged to Aid Children With Learning Disabilities; Other Gifts
Two institutions have received big gifts: The family of Dan L. Duncan, founder and majority owner of Enterprise Products Partners, an energy company in Houston, has pledged $10-million to the Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The gift will…
Arizona Grant Makers Commit $150-Million for Bioscience Research
A philanthropist in Arizona is pledging $100-million to support bioscience research and development in the state, part of an effort to prod the state to commit more money to such efforts. Under an arrangement announced last week, Stardust Charitable Group, a philanthropy founded by Jerry Bisgrove,…
By Sun Jung Kim
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The median salary for chief fund raisers at colleges and universities rose by nearly 3.6 percent last year, according to the College and University ALSO SEE: TABLE: Median salaries of college fund-raising officials, 2005-6 Professional Association for Human Resources, in Knoxville, Tenn. The…
By Caroline Preston
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Charities Urged to Do Better Job of Pitching Marketing Deals to Companies
San Diego The amount of money charities raise through marketing arrangements with companies has grown steadily, to nearly $1-billion last year, according to IEG, a Chicago research group. But some charities still do not know how to effectively pitch deals that provide revenue from product sales,…
By Leah Kerkman
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