Amateur Writing Group’s New Director Pitches Its Story
Carrie Spitler is not a professional writer. She majored in political science in college, and has worked as a fund raiser for her entire professional life. She often spends her free time cooking or riding her bicycle. But that’s okay with the organization that just hired her to be its new executive…
By DAVID WHELAN
Contributor
IRS Gives Advice in Training Handbook
The Internal Revenue Service is giving its agents new suggestions on how to handle a range of issues important to charities that may arise in government audits or other work. The advice appears in the latest version of the revenue service’s “technical instruction” handbook. The publication is…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Legal Guide on Internet Activities
A new book offers advice on how the laws and regulations that govern nonprofit organizations apply to charities’ activities on the Internet. The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law discusses such topics as Internet fund raising, online-donation acknowledgment, unrelated-business…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Archive Extends Access to Journals
A nonprofit organization in New York that was founded in 1995 to help college and university libraries deal with a space crunch in the stacks has expanded access to scholarly journals both in the United States and abroad. JSTOR, which got its start as a project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Manager for Dot-Org Domain
Come January a new organization will be managing the dot-org Internet domain that thousands of nonprofit organizations call home in cyberspace. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has selected the Internet Society, in Reston, Va., to succeed VeriSign as the domain’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
United Way Accountability Standards
Endorsed by United Way of America National Professional Council, October 2002United Way is recognized as a leader in the Nation. Our work in bringing people together to create positive impact and deliver innovative collective responses to the most compelling human needs makes us unique. Annually,…
United Way Crafts New Accountability Standards
In the wake of controversy at the United Way that serves metropolitan Washington, United Way ALSO SEE:United Way Accountability Standards, endorsed in October 2002 of America has endorsed new accountability, disclosure, and financial practices for local United Ways. The standards are designed to…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Most Charities and Religious Groups Evaluate Programs, Report Says
Slightly more than 85 percent of U.S. nonprofit groups and 72 percent of religious congregations ALSO SEE:TABLE: Measuring Performance: Challenges Charities and Religious Groups FaceTABLE: How Nonprofit Groups and Religious Congregations Evaluate Accomplishments evaluate their programs, according…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Nonprofit Winners of 2002 Echo Awards from the Direct Marketing Association
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS Diamond Echo Award For the most outstanding campaign of all entries submitted: Amnistía Internacional
Marketing Efforts by Nonprofit Groups Win 14 Awards
A Nigerian woman who was to be stoned to death was at the center of a highly effective multimedia ALSO SEE:A list of the nonprofit winners campaign that won three Echo Awards for Amnistía Internacional, the division of Amnesty International in Madrid. Winners of the Echo Awards, given by the Direct…