Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose George Mason U. (Va.) April 2002 June 2005 $110,000,000 $113,100,000 For academic programs, capital improvements, community outreach, faculty…
Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Institute for Health and Healing (Minneapolis): $1-million over six years to create and develop the center. (The couple made an additional $1-million pledge from their personal accounts.) Center for Mind-Body Medicine (Washington): $50,000 to support the CancerGuides…
Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Groups
The Resilient Sector, by Lester M. Salamon, is an updated summary of The State of Nonprofit America, published in December 2002 (both versions are co-published by the Brookings Institution and the Aspen Institute). Mr. Salamon, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, in…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Overview of California Foundations
California Foundations: 2000-2001 Update, by James M. Ferris, provides information about grant makers throughout the state. Mr. Ferris, director of the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, writes that after significant growth in…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Guide to Managing Nonprofit Risks
Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations: A Comprehensive Guide
By Jessica Kronstadt
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The ‘How To’ Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants, Fifth Edition
By Jessica Kronstadt
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How a National Crisis Propelled a Charity Leader’s Career
I was the middle child in a family of schoolteachers, and I was lucky enough to grow up in a happy, middle-class household in Gettysburg, Pa. I had a grandmother with whom
Report Scores Nonprofit Credit Counselors
Congress should consider new legislation to curb abuses by some nonprofit credit-counseling organizations and require the federal government to increase its scrutiny of the industry, recommended a report from an influential Senate panel. Some of the nation’s 872 tax-exempt credit-counseling…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Jury Allows Hospital to Retain Tax-Exempt Status
By Elizabeth Schwinn A nonprofit hospital may retain its tax-exempt status despite its partnership with a for-profit hospital company, a jury has ruled. St. David’s Health Care System, in Austin, Tex., may retain its nonprofit status even though half of the directors on its governing board were…
Congress Seeks to Stop Inflated Gift Deductions
By Elizabeth Schwinn Amid continuing concern by Congress and the U.S. Department of the Treasury that individuals and companies are taking overly generous deductions for their gifts of cars, art, and other noncash items, lawmakers are acting to limit such deductions. They are also asking the…