Trend could continue as IRS increases scrutinySalaries paid to the leaders of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations in 2003 rose at their smallest rate on ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Executive Compensation SurveyDisclosure of Charity Salaries Is a Complicated and Confusing ProcessQuestioning…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Giving to Health-Care Institutions Rose by 6.5% Last Year
American hospitals and other health-care institutions raised an estimated $5.9-billion in the 2003 fiscal year, up 6.5 percent from 2002, according to a new report by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. For Canadian hospitals, the increase was even bigger, 10.2 percent, for a total of…
By Lauren Kafka
Contributor
Officials Warn Groups in Federal Charity Drive to Make Changes
Washington
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
To recruit donors, charities revamp mailings; try new tacticsFor more than a decade, the American Heart Association’s efforts to attract new donors through direct mail ALSO SEE:Charities Urged to Stop ‘Crass and Irrelevant’ Appeals were on a roll. Every year, the association, which runs one of the…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Computer Entrepreneur Gives $40-Million; Other Donations
Three universities and two nonprofit organizations have received large gifts: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y., has received an unrestricted $40-million gift from Curtis Priem, co-founder of the NVIDIA Corporation, in Santa Clara, Calif., a computer-graphics company. Mr. Priem, a…
Two Universities Receive $100-Million Each in Gifts
Two universities each received gifts of $100-million this month: Brown University has been given $100-million from the billionaire businessman Sidney E. Frank to endow a scholarship fund for undergraduate students. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is the beneficiary of a $100-million pledge…
By M.J. Prest and Elizabeth Schwinn
Source of Gift to Princeton Revealed
Guessing which nonprofit institutions are benefiting from the philanthropy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and his family has become an increasingly popular game for some journalists. This month the Associated Press reported that Mr. Bloomberg’s family was behind a multimillion-dollar gift…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
New encyclopedia explores American philanthropyIndianapolis
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Photograph by David Jiranek One year after its founder’s death, an effort known as Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project continues. David Jiranek started the program in 2000 to teach children who were orphaned in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide to express themselves through photography. A former…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor