Volunteers in Cambodia Among ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Microsoft Co-Founder to Establish Science-Fiction Museum; Other Gifts
Two organizations have received large pledges: Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and president of Vulcan, an investment company in Seattle, has pledged to help construct and operate a new museum in Seattle. Tentatively called the Science Fiction Experience, the museum is expected to cost at…
Women’s Funds Hold $200-Million; Donations Grew Fast in Recent Years
Women’s funds -- which raise money to help charities serving women and girls -- are growing in number and size across the country. According to new figures released by the Women’s Funding Network, an umbrella organization of women’s funds, 27 new and existing groups have joined the network in just…
By Serdar Tumgoren
Contributor
Fund to Award $6-Million to Help Minorities, Immigrants
Several foundations have formed a partnership -- the Racial Justice Collaborative -- to provide grants to community groups working with civil-rights lawyers to help minorities and immigrants fight economic and social disparities. This fall, the Racial Justice Collaborative is expected to begin…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Under Pressure, N.Y. Scraps Rules That Worried Many Charity Solicitors
After a flurry of protests from charities, the New York attorney general has decided not to require ALSO SEE:New York Attorney General’s response to comments received about the state’s new fund-raising regulations charities and their boards to obtain more than one bid before signing a contract with…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
New Hampshire Donors Covet Their Independence –Â and Wealth
After a donor made a $10,000 pledge to the United Way in Manchester, N.H., last fall, Gail M. Garceau, the ALSO SEE: SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The Chronicle’s analysis of giving in America’s 3,091 counties Special Report: Where generosity lives organization’s president, wanted to parade the benefactor…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Forget Elvis –Â Tupelo’s Real King Is Its History of Charitable Giving
Tupelo, Miss. Amid the chill of a foggy day, throngs of people seek refuge in a tile-walled Salvation Army gym, where they eat ALSO SEE: SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The Chronicle’s analysis of giving in America’s 3,091 counties Special Report: Where generosity lives soup and talk about the virtues of…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
An Unlikely Mix of Mysticism and Marketing Spurs Donors in Iowa Town
Once, this Jefferson County seat might have been regarded as something other than a curiosity, but that era has long since faded, like the last rays of sunset over the state’s unstintingly flat horizon. ALSO SEE: The Chronicle’s analysis of giving in America’s 3,091 counties Even before the day, 30…
By Jeffrey Klineman
Contributor
In Brooklyn, N.Y., Residents Make a Religion of Charitable Giving
Brooklyn, N.Y. Sunday isn’t the only day that Concord Baptist Church is one of the busiest places in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. On one spring Tuesday afternoon, for instance, several dozen parishioners are seated at a luncheon following a ALSO SEE: SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Mormons Make Utah a Land of Plenty, but Some Charities Go Begging
Salt Lake City The Bishop’s Storehouse looks just like a grocery store, lacking only cash registers. Run by the Church of Jesus ALSO SEE: SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The Chronicle’s analysis of giving in America’s 3,091 counties Special Report: Where generosity lives Christ of Latter-day Saints, the store…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor