New Fund-Raising Endeavors Pay Off for Animal-Protection Charity
After six or seven years of making small contributions to the Humane Society of the United States, a dog-loving ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 ResultsSurviving Tough TimesCHARTS: The 400 at a GlanceDoing the Numbers: How the Philanthropy 400 Survey Was CompiledCancer Group Thrives After…
By Debra E. Blum
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Newly Rich Poetry Group Faces Big Challenges
Chicago Until June the Poetry Foundation’s four employees worked out of such close quarters that they could ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 ResultsSurviving Tough TimesCHARTS: The 400 at a GlanceDoing the Numbers: How the Philanthropy 400 Survey Was CompiledCancer Group Thrives After Near-Death…
By Maura Webber
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Cancer Group Thrives After Near-Death in 1992
White Plains, N.Y. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has steadily climbed the Philanthropy 400 rankings since 1995, ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 ResultsSurviving Tough TimesCHARTS: The 400 at a GlanceDoing the Numbers: How the Philanthropy 400 Survey Was CompiledNewly Rich Poetry Group Faces…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Doing the Numbers: How the Philanthropy 400 Survey Was Compiled
The 12th annual Philanthropy 400 uses financial data gathered from nonprofit organizations to ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 ResultsSurviving Tough TimesCHARTS: The 400 at a GlanceCancer Group Thrives After Near-Death in 1992Newly Rich Poetry Group Faces Big ChallengesNew Fund-Raising…
By Marni D. Larose
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Foundation in South Carolina Gets $34-Million; Other Gifts
Three organizations have received large gifts or pledges: The Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina, in Charleston, has received a $34-million bequest from Frances P. Bunnelle, whose first husband, Charlie Peace, was an owner of the Greenville News-Piedmont. Ms. Bunnelle earmarked the…
By Julia Green
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N.Y. Hospital Settles Case Filed by Donor’s Widow
A New York hospital has agreed to stop using the name of one of its benefactors and to return a big portion of his bequest to settle a long-running legal battle with the donor’s widow. The settlement comes in a case that helped to establish the right of donors and their representatives to sue to…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Former photojournalist’s advocacy work in war-riven Sierra Leone earns her a MacArthur “genius” awardTwo days before Corinne Dufka left her post as an investigator for Human Rights Watch in Sierra Leone to return to a more conventional life in the United States, she received a phone call from an…
By Daniel del Castillo
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Woman gets ‘genius’ grant for work with troubled girls San Francisco When Lateefah Simon took her first nonprofit job nine years ago, she says, it hardly ALSO SEE:The Center For Young Women’s Development felt like a life-changing event. “I was a 17-year-old girl with no money in her pocket,” she…
By Ian Wilhelm
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When P.K. Beville, a Georgia psychologist, was trying to solve behavioral problems among nursing-home patients, she was struck by a recurring phenomenon: Most had lost their ability to imagine anything beyond the day-to-day life they had come to know. So in 1997, Ms. Beville created Second Wind…
Causes and the Support They Garnered
2002 total private support Percentage change over 2001 Number of organizations on the Philanthropy 400 Education $14,902,733,140 -3.3% 131 Human services and youth $8,176,982,279 15.0% 27 International $4,558,845,309 10.4% 39 Health $3,223,146,952 -22.7% 19 Hospitals and medical centers…