Establishing a Global Health Alliance
Developing Successful Global Health Alliances describes key questions that organizations should examine when considering whether to form or participate in such a partnership. The report was produced by McKinsey & Company at the request of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, creator of the Vaccine…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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A Concise Guide to Getting Grants for Nonprofit Organizations, by Mark Guyer, leads readers through the process of obtaining grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies. Mr. Guyer, fund-raising coordinator at Stark County District Library, in Canton, Ohio, begins by describing…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Struggles in the Fight for Human Rights
Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, by Aryeh Neier, Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network, in New York, reflects in this memoir on his 40-year career defending human rights. Mr. Neier says that in those years the work of…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Grant Making to Improve Organizational Efficiency
Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: a Funder’s Guide to Capacity Building, by Paul Connolly and Carol Lukas, Foundations are increasingly supporting not just the programs of nonprofit organizations, but also projects to improve their organizational efficiency, the authors write. Paul Connolly is…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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One-Time Activist Vows to Spark ‘Sense of Urgency’ at San Francisco Fund
San Francisco Pamela H. David beat out 300 other applicants to become the new executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, in San Francisco. The foundation’s board considered 100 of the applicants to be serious candidates, but even after facing down such long odds, the former street…
By DAVID WHELAN
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Service Has No Plans to Increase Fees
The IRS has announced that it will not increase the fees that it charges charities to apply for tax-exempt status or to receive published advice this year (Revenue Procedure 2003-8, Internal Revenue Bulletin 2003-1). Tax-exempt organizations seeking private-letter rulings from the government on how…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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IRS Releases Directions on Credit-Repair Groups
The IRS has published directions it will give auditors in examining nonprofit credit-counseling organizations, a prelude to its focus on such organizations. The revenue service notes that credit-counseling organizations can provide a valuable service by educating consumers about managing money and…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Foundations Receive Advice on Transferring Assets
The Internal Revenue Service has published guidelines for foundations that want to transfer assets to another organization without incurring taxes. Until now, the only way a foundation could be sure it was complying with the law would be to ask the IRS for a special ruling, known as a…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Charity Tax Breaks May Languish in Congress
President Bush’s effort to persuade Congress to pass tax cuts to stimulate the economy may steal attention from long-sought charitable tax incentives, charity representatives say. Among the tax incentives that charities had hoped would pass this year: a plan to allow people who do not itemize their…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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‘Town & Country’: Rockefeller Philanthropy
The Rockefellers are America’s first family of philanthropy, declares the novelist Ben Cheever, in an article in Town & Country, which devotes its January issue to things it considers “best.” Mr. Cheever says the family’s generosity has three “outstanding characteristics": “They gave away more than…