The Saga of the Barnes Foundation
Art Held Hostage: the Story of the Barnes Collection
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Career Fund Raiser Finds Lots of Appeal in New Role as Director
When Marcia Kerz quit her job teaching emotionally disturbed children in St. Louis to create and head the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Education in 1975, her goal was to help overhaul the state’s education system. Her first responsibility: raise $350,000. Ms. Kerz has been raising money for…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Red Cross Disaster Fund Falls Below $5-Million
The American Red Cross says its disaster-relief fund has declined precipitously, and it is appealing for donations to replenish it. The fund’s balance has plunged from $68-million last year to just $5-million today, not even enough to cover the estimated $8-million cost of current relief efforts in…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Online Game Teaches Entrepreneurship
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in Kansas City, Mo., is collaborating with Disney Online to promote youth entrepreneurship through a new online game. Hot Shot Business, for children ages 9 through 12, allows players to see what it is like to establish and run their own businesses -- in this…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Boston Charity Offers Local Technology Aid
At Rosie’s Place, a shelter for homeless women in Boston, staff members used to compile information on clients in writing. Every three months, employees spent hours synthesizing all the scraps of paper into a report for donors on how many women were helped by the organization’s services. Today, the…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Small charities find ways to offer retirement plans to employeesAfter 14 years of doing without a pension plan, TreeUtah’s staff members will finally begin saving for their ALSO SEE:A Guide to Retirement-Plan Options for Nonprofit Employers retirement later this year with the help of their…
By Maura Webber
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Federal Trade Commission Joins 34 States in Crackdown on Fund-Raising Fraud
The Federal Trade Commission and charity regulators in 34 states have begun a campaign to crack down on fraudulent fund raising. “Operation Phoney Philanthropy” is aimed at people who gull donors into contributing to charities supposedly set up to benefit police or firefighters and their families,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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In the Struggle to Balance Work and Home Life, Here Comes Baby No. 4
The rare tranquillity aboard a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles highlights for me how much my life has changed since co-founding my nonprofit organization, and it occurs to me that I may not be ready for my fourth child, scheduled to be born in mid-June. This is my last overnight trip before I…
By Yosef I. Abramowitz
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Reduction in Rates for Gift Annuities Suggested
Charities should trim the rates they pay donors who set up gift annuities, according to a national ALSO SEE: New Gift-Annuity Rates planned-giving organization. The American Council on Gift Annuities has recommended that, starting in July, charities reduce rates for donors 48 or older by as much as…
By Brad Wolverton
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Solicitors Keep 62% of Gifts, New California Study Finds
Only 38 percent of donations raised by commercial solicitors in California fund-raising campaigns in 2001 went to charities, the state’s attorney general said in a new report. The remainder of the money went to cover fund-raising companies’ expenses and for their profits. In 2000 charities received…