AmeriCorps Changes Leaders and Appeals for More Money
Washington Changes in leadership at the Corporation for National and Community Service -- the organization that oversees AmeriCorps -- and efforts by Congress to free up additional money for the agency have helped ease the anxiety many charity leaders felt earlier this summer when a sharp decline…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Bits: A Technology Leader to Head AmeriCorps, Gates’s Grants, and Grants for Grass-Roots Advocacy
President Bush has nominated David Eisner to be the new head of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that oversees AmeriCorps. A longtime proponent of nonprofit technology, Mr. Eisner was until recently senior vice president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, then in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Use Rises at Pennsylvania Charities
Nonprofit organizations in western Pennsylvania made strides in their use of technology between 2000 and 2002, according to a new report. Last fall, the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University asked 266 charities about their technology planning, hardware and software,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Questions Remain Following PipeVine’s Closure
Nonprofit organizations and the California attorney general’s office continue to deal with the fallout from the shutdown of PipeVine, a San Francisco nonprofit group that processed donations totaling more than $100-million a year for companies that run on-the-job fund-raising drives, United Ways,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bush Explains Views on Religious Hiring
Washington The Bush administration has released a report explaining why it believes religious groups have a constitutional ALSO SEE:Faith In Diversity right to follow their beliefs when making hiring decisions, even when the organizations receive federal grants and other government funds. Critics…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Religious groups see benefits of hiring people from other faithsWhen visitors walk through the doors of the Addison Penzak Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley, in Los Gatos, Calif., ALSO SEE:Bush Explains Views on Religious Hiring Danelle Rhiner is waiting to greet them with a big, welcoming…
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Fewer Fund-Raising Jobs Created, Survey Finds
Nonprofit organizations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions continued to hire fund raisers at a strong pace in the past two years despite the slow economy, according to a new survey of 164 senior nonprofit executives. However, far fewer of those fund raisers were hired for newly created…
Sensing a big opportunity, many charities look for ways to entice the newest wave of potential donorsA smart-alecky youth with 57 clothespins clipped to his face is helping World Vision, in Federal Way, Wash., attract teenagers to its cause. The picture of the teenager, included in brochures that…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
Foundations Pool Money to Aid Immigrants Following Federal-Government Crackdown
In response to a federal-government crackdown on some immigrants in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a handful of grant makers have created a fund to help small organizations that serve immigrants hire more staff members, form coalitions among themselves and with civil-rights groups,…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Film Mogul’s Gifts Are a “Call to Action”
In an attempt to spur others in Hollywood to donate to charitable causes, Haim Saban, a film and television producer, and his wife, Cheryl, announced last month that they have committed approximately $100-million to charities in the United States and Israel through personal donations and through…
By Kevin Dumouchelle
Contributor