Bits: MIT To Host “Grassroots Use of Technology” Conference
A conference called “Grassroots Use of Technology” will be held April 16 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge. The meeting is sponsored by the Organizers’ Collaborative, a group that promotes the use of computers and the Internet as tools for activism. For more information: Go…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Domestic-Abuse Advocates Receive Technology Training
The same technology that can help a woman in a violent relationship seek help -- such as cell phones, e-mail, and the Internet -- can also be misused by abusers and aid their attempts to harass and terrorize their victims. To help decrease the harm women suffer from such harassment, the Wireless…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Retailer Offers Charity Innovation Award
Amazon.com has announced a new award to honor nonprofit organizations that are taking innovative approaches to solving problems. Charities will be evaluated on the urgency and relevancy of the problem they seek to solve, the creativity of the strategies they employ, and their record of results.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Partnerships for Better Programs
Charity spreads its innovative approach via mentor systemAs societal problems ravaged their city’s neighborhoods, pastors and members of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America were frustrated. When the problems reached fever pitch four years ago, “the group felt…
By Darlene M. Siska
Contributor
Legal-services charity requires program leaders to raise moneyNew York When Doug Lasdon, executive director of the Urban Justice Center, called Madeline Garcia Bigelow a little over a year ago to offer her a job, she gave him the brushoff. “I told him I really wasn’t interested,” she says. “I had a…
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Dallas Art Museum Receives $245-Million From 3 Couples
A group of longtime contributors to the Dallas Museum of Art have pledged their private collections to the ALSO SEE:The Giving Spree institution, a windfall that includes more than 800 works by modern and contemporary masters such as Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Cy Twombly.…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
$25-Million Pledged to Alfred University in New York; Other New Gifts
Six institutions have received big gifts: Marlin Miller Jr. and his wife, Regina, have pledged $25-million to Alfred University, in New York, for its endowment. The money is earmarked for the university’s visual- and performing-arts programs, and will be used to establish up to six professorships,…
Popularity of ‘Giving Circles’ Continues to Grow, Report Says
Since 1990, $44-million has been raised by groups of people around the country who pool contributions and collectively figure out how best to give them away, according to a new report. Researchers identified 220 “giving circles” in 39 states and the District of Columbia and received responses to…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Conservative Grant Makers Must Change to Be Effective, Leaders Say
Washington Conservative leaders say that, while right-leaning foundations have played a big role in reshaping American politics, grant makers must change their focus if they are to remain effective. At a meeting sponsored by the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal,…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Indiana Woman’s Philanthropy Was a ‘Carefully Constructed Tapestry’
Sally Reahard, an heiress to Eli Lilly stock and a lifelong philanthropist, never forgot the time she spent ALSO SEE: DATABASE: America’s Most-Generous Donors The Giving Spree Couple’s Giving Is Rooted in Their Passion for the Great Outdoors How The Chronicle Ranked Biggest Donors of 2004 Belief in…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions