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By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
New Zoo Chief Hopes to Lure More Humans to See the Animals
When Willie B., Zoo Atlanta’s world-famous 41-year-old gorilla, died three years ago, he was so beloved that his obituary made the local newspaper’s front page. The gorilla had come a long way: from Cameroon to a small cage in the city’s old Municipal Zoo, and then finally, in the 1980s, he was…
By Jeffrey Klineman
Contributor
‘New York Review of Books’: Foundation Spending
As government support of nonprofit organizations is being cut back, wealthy donors should be ALSO SEE:$300-Million Art Collection Promised to National Gallery; Other Gifts doing more to ensure that their money goes to direct services, writes the philanthropist Lewis B. Cullman in The New York…
On September 25, NPower NY, a nonprofit organization that provides technology assistance to other charities, will hold a seminar on how charities can encourage their employees to be more conscientious about computer security. For more information: Go to http://www.npowerny.org. On October 21, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site OffersTechnology Discounts
A new Web site provides discounted hardware, software, and technology services to nonprofit organizations. TechMarketplace is a project of TechFoundation, a Cambridge, Mass., charity that was founded in 2001 to improve nonprofit organizations’ access to information technology. Among the products…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Cisco Grant Provides Voice Mail for Homeless
The Cisco Systems Foundation, in San Jose, Calif., has awarded a five-year, $2.5-million grant to Community Voice Mail, a charity in Seattle that works with social-service organizations in 37 cities to provide free voice mail to people who do not have telephone service. In addition to the cash…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Software Aims to Speed Relief Efforts
After a disaster, one of the biggest challenges relief organizations face is getting supplies to where they are needed, often under chaotic circumstances. New software aims to streamline that task by connecting all the players in the supply chain. The Fritz Institute, a San Francisco nonprofit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Major Nonprofit Group Accused of Wrongly Stifling a Critical Essay
The chief executive of a prominent community foundation is accusing Independent Sector and its ALSO SEE:Text of Article on Public Trust That Nonprofit Coalition Refused to Publish president of compromising its independence because it refused to publish an essay it invited him to write. In the…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
More municipalities seek revenue from nonprofit groupsWhen the city of Bridgeport, Conn., asked a nonprofit home for the elderly to start paying taxes, the charity’s leaders balked, contending that it should retain the exemption it had enjoyed since its founding in 1922. But deciding to fight…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
New Telemarketing Rules: a Primer
By Elizabeth Schwinn The federal do-not-call registry, which takes effect next month, prohibits commercial calls to the more than 48 ALSO SEE:End of the Line? million people who have signed up for the list, but it permits calls seeking charitable donations. Some charity callers, however, will be…