International Group Gets $20-Million; Other Gifts
World Learning, in Brattleboro, Vt., has received a $20-million gift from an anonymous donor. World Learning is a nonprofit organization that provides cultural, economic, language, and other kinds of training to professionals and high-school and university students preparing to work or study…
Study: Foundations Shortchanging Charities
If a legislative proposal to increase foundation grant making had been in effect in 2001, it would have generated more than $4-billion more for charity, according to an analysis by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog group that supports the legislation. Under current law,…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Templeton Foundation’s Grant Making: a Sampling of Recent Awards
-- To help establish a research program to explore students’ spiritual growth during the college ALSO SEE:A Donor’s Divine InterventionSpirituality Research Backed by Templeton Fosters Plenty of Skepticism years: $2-million over three years to the Higher Education Research Institute, at the…
Spirituality Research Backed by Templeton Fosters Plenty of Skepticism
Last year, when Robert Wuthnow sought money to study how people who receive social services in eastern ALSO SEE:A Donor’s Divine InterventionTempleton Foundation’s Grant Making: a Sampling of Recent Awards Pennsylvania perceive the groups that deliver them, he turned to the Institute for Research…
By Michael Anft
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Financier takes steps to keep fund on spiritual courseWhile attending Yale University during the Depression, John M. Templeton was forced to scrap for his Ivy League ALSO SEE:Spirituality Research Backed by Templeton Fosters Plenty of SkepticismTempleton Foundation’s Grant Making: a Sampling of…
By Michael Anft
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Photograph by Jonathan HubschmanCigarette burns. Ruptured ear-drums. A poorly healed bone fracture. Electrocution marks. Those are some of the injuries Gary Stadtmauer, an internist, has seen in his New York office while volunteering for the Human Rights Clinic, a program that helps refugees win…
American Symphony Orchestra League (New York): Appointed Michael Lawrence, manager of artists and programs at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Newark), to be program manager. Anti-Defamation League (New York): Appointed Marshall S. Levin, executive director of financial-resource development at…
Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
From the issue dated June 12, 2003 Following are the interest rates, provided by the Internal Revenue Service, for computing charitable deductions for charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, and some other deferred gifts. June 2003 3.6% May 3.8% April 2003 3.6% March…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced To conclude Goal Amount raised Purpose Arkansas Children’s Hospital March 2003 Dec. 2003 $30,000,000 $22,600,000 For capital improvements, endowed chairs, medical technology, and programs…