Passing On a Charity’s Message
Groups find an old method, word of mouth, can create buzzWhen the Center for Constitutional Rights, in New York, sought to get the word out about its Telephone Justice campaign -- an effort to cut the amount families of prison inmates pay for telephone calls made from the state’s correctional…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
Protestants Give Smaller Share of Income to Church Activities, a New Report Finds
Protestants are donating a smaller and smaller share of their after-tax incomes to churches, according to a new report. The main decline has come in the form of gifts to church-run charitable activities, which, as a percentage of take-home pay, dropped to a 36-year low. An analysis of 146,000…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
New York Housing Fund Attracts $40-Million
Seven national organizations have promised $40-million for a project with the New York City government to create low-cost housing for thousands of residents. Among the grant makers involved:the Ford Foundation, in New York; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago; and the…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
After Katrina, the Public Wants Companies to Help the Poor
U.S. companies had donated at least $379-million in cash as of last month to Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts, as part of one of the largest philanthropic responses from the corporate world to a disaster, says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Corporate Citizenship, in…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Google Unveils Philanthropy Plan Valued at Nearly $1-Billion
After several years of quiet meetings with nonprofit officials, scholars, and other informal philanthropic advisers, the Google company this month shed light on its charitable ambitions by announcing it will spend $175-million to support social causes during the next three years, as well as put…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Collector Gives 174 Works to N.Y. Museum
Edward R. Broida, a retired real-estate developer in Malibu, Calif., has donated 174 pieces from his collection of contemporary artworks to the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. The gift includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from 38 artists, among them Philip Guston, Vija Celmins,…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Detroit Art Museum Gets $45-Million From Three Donors; Other Recent Gifts
Eight institutions have received big gifts: The Detroit Institute of Arts has received a total of $45-million from three donors -- Josephine F. Ford, Richard A. Manoogian, and A. Alfred Taubman -- for its capital campaign, which will support renovation and expansion, endowment, and operations. Ms.…
Amazon.com’s Experiment to Raise Money Produces $1.7-Million
Amazon.com established itself as a powerful philanthropic force in 2001 by raising $5-million for the American Red Cross through its Web site within just 72 hours of the September 11 terrorism attacks. But the company’s latest fund-raising experiment -- a contest aimed at encouraging customers to…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Earthquake Taxes Capacity of Donors and Charities to Provide Relief Aid
The catastrophic earthquake that devastated parts of Pakistan and India this month has strained the ability of many international relief organizations to raise funds from American donors, many of whom feel overwhelmed by appeals for what has been an unusually high number of major disasters this…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Ian Wilhelm
Phone Calls and Cocktail-Party Pressure
Trustee’s tenacity pays off in capital campaign as San Francisco museum opens its doors once moreThis month, a San Francisco institution for more than a century, closed for five years, opened its doors once more. The de Young Museum, which houses a diverse array of art and objects from nearly 30…
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor