Big charities cautiously optimistic as donations rise 2.3%This article was reported by Holly Hall, Leah Kerkman, Cassie J. Moore, Nicole Wallace, and Brad Wolverton. Giving to the nation’s 400 most-successful fund-raising groups rose by a ALSO SEE: DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Big Businesses Expect to Increase Giving
Despite a slowly recovering economy, a new report says corporate giving is expected to increase this year, but only among larger companies. After examining information from 204 respondents that reported their 2004 giving, the report says corporations with philanthropy budgets of $50-million or more…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Company Giving Habits Influence Workers, Consumers, Two Studies Find
Two new surveys suggest that a corporation’s philanthropic efforts influence a majority of Americans’ business-related ALSO SEE: Corporate Good Work: How They Are Viewed by the Public decisions, including whether to accept a job offer. According to one survey, 72 percent of 2,169 respondents…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Boston-Area Jewish Schools Get $45-Million; Other Gifts
Several institutions have received large gifts: An anonymous group of families from the Boston metropolitan area has donated $45-million to Combined Jewish Philanthropies, in Boston, to improve educational programs at local Jewish day schools. The nonprofit organization will oversee the…
Civil-Liberties Group Rejects Grants With Antiterror Clauses
The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to turn down $1.15-million in grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations rather than accept antiterrorism clauses in the institutions’ grant agreements. “It is a sad day when two of this country’s most beloved and respected foundations feel they…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Charities and Foundations Issue Antiterrorism Principles
A group of nonprofit organizations has developed principles that it hopes the federal government will promote to help prevent charities and foundations from unwittingly providing money or services to terrorists. The coalition of more than two dozen organizations -- including the Council on…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Series of nonprofit-supported televised forums allows voters to trade views without trading barbsPoliticians and pollsters may have long ago decided that the presidential race in Connecticut was over, but try telling that to residents who squared off in New Haven this month in a nationally…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Alaskan’s crusade to improve health care is rewardedAnchorage
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Photograph by Glenn Robinson On Robert Wyland’s first trip to the beach, when he was 14, he saw a gray whale; inspired, he captured his impressions with a paintbrush. Today, the artist known only as Wyland has completed 91 marine-life murals in 70 cities worldwide, covering 64 million square feet…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
How The Chronicle Compiled Its Annual Philanthropy 400 Rankings
The 14th annual Philanthropy 400 uses financial data gathered from nonprofit ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 database of U.S. charities that raised the most in donations from individuals, foundations, and corporationsGiving Slowly ReboundsThe 400 at a GlanceFund Raiser’s…
By Cassie J. Moore and Leah Kerkman