Fund raisers and recruiters debate merits of certificationAs a senior associate director of development at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, ALSO SEE:Professional Certificate Offered to Planned-Giving Specialists Jennifer Covington helps attract big gifts to the Houston hospital.…
By DAVID WHELAN
Contributor
A School in Kenya Helps Baltimore’s Troubled Youngsters
Like many of his friends in the crime-ridden neighborhood in Baltimore’s ALSO SEE:INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC: Photo gallery
$55-Million Pledged to University; Other Gifts
Five nonprofit organizations have received commitments of $20-million or more: Oklahoma State University Foundation, in Stillwater, has received a pledge of $55-million from T. Boone Pickens, founder of Mesa Limited Partnership, in Dallas. According to the foundation, Mr. Pickens will establish a…
Growth in Giving Slackens at Foundations
The growth in foundation giving in 2001 slowed to its lowest level in four years, according to a new report by the Foundation Center. The report, “Foundation Giving Trends: Update on Funding Priorities,” presents the findings of an annual study of grants of $10,000 or more from 1,007 community,…
By Ziya Serdar Tumgoren
Contributor
N.Y. Museum Receives Art Worth $75-Million
By Kevin DuMouchelle The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, has received a gift of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Charitable Foundation, in New York. The total value of the gift is estimated to be at least $75-million, according to Paul…
Medical-relief charity holds first “shareholder” meeting to inform donors -- and gain visibilitySanta Barbara, Calif. Standing before a crowd of about 200 people at a Doubletree resort here, the chief executive officer plowed through the fine print of his organization’s financials, occasionally…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Packard’s Spending Cuts Cause Budget Woes for a Budget Expert
Washington The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is used to squaring off against Congress or the president on ALSO SEE:Cutting Its Losses budget issues, whether Medicaid, food-stamp spending or deficit reduction. But for the first time in its 21-year history, the heat is now on the think…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Plunge in assets forces Packard to slash programsAt a college in Harlem, Mont., Native American students and faculty members are sampling the water polluted ALSO SEE:Boom and Bust at the Packard FoundationPackard’s Spending Cuts Cause Budget Woes for a Budget Expert by a gold mine to bolster a…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
Photograph by Elizabeth HartowiczCommunicating can be difficult for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia because memory loss robs them of the ability to express themselves through words. But music can provide a key to their emotions. Participants in the Center for Alzheimer’s Respite…
Alabama Public Television (Birmingham): Appointed Despina Vodantis, promotion director at WZZK (Birmingham), to be membership director. America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (Washington): Appointed James Grabowski, chief of party for the organization’s Administration for Justice Support…