Resources for Screening Volunteers
VOLUNTEERISM Books The following titles are available through the Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s Web site: Staff Screening Tool Kit: Building a Strong Foundation ALSO SEE:Charities Find Ways to Screen Volunteers Despite Insufficient Funds, Time Through Careful Staffing, by John C. Patterson…
The following awards have been presented for achievement in fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Arts. The McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) has given its 2002 Distinguished Artist Award to Emilie Buchwald, publisher of Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis), a nonprofit…
A Specialist in Geriatrics to Head Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nearly two decades ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation identified Risa Lavizzo-Mourey as an up-and-coming leader in health care and awarded her a top scholarly honor. The foundation-supported post-residency training and research program reaffirmed the young doctor’s decision to follow a career…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor
Foundation Boards: Composition and Compensation
ALSO SEE: Women and Minorities Slowly Gain Board Seats, Report Says MAKE-UP OF BOARDS, 2000
Women and Minorities Slowly Gain Board Seats, Report Says
By Nicole Lewis The percentage of women and minorities on foundation boards has grown significantly in the past ALSO SEE: Foundation Boards: Composition and Compensation two decades, but white males still account for nearly two-thirds of all board members, according to a survey by the Council on…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
D.C. United Way’s Troubles Cause Concern Elsewhere
Continued controversy at the United Way of the National Capital Area is causing some United Ways outside Washington to take steps to assure their donors that all is well -- especially as many organizations prepare for fall fund-raising campaigns. Many United Ways are also reviewing their own…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Bits: Grants Aid Technology Projects, Fund-Raising Tips for Groups That Help Animals
The United Negro College Fund, in Fairfax, Va., has received $25-million worth of software from the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash. This gift brings the total that the fund has raised for its Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign (The Chronicle, April 4) to $118.9-million in cash,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Group Starts Site to Aid Poor
Two years ago the Children’s Partnership, a public-policy organization in Santa Monica, Calif., released research findings that identified a lack of useful information on the Internet for people who are poor or are members of minority groups, have limited literacy skills, or do not speak English.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lighthearted E-Mail Drive Raises $80,000
Grist Magazine describes its environmental coverage as “gloom and doom with a sense of humor” -- an irreverent approach that the online publication successfully applied to its first e-mail fund-raising campaign. Based in Seattle, Grist publishes a daily e-mail digest that summarizes the day’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Donation Site Helps U.K. Charities
A new giving site allows donors in the United Kingdom to make online contributions to any charity in the country -- regardless of whether those groups have an Internet presence of their own. GiveNow.org is a joint project of the Charities Aid Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Kent, England,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor