Court Denies Deductions Due to Charity’s Error
The U.S. Tax Court, in a pair of rulings, has disallowed donors’ charitable deductions because the receipts the nonprofit group gave the donors were incorrect. The rulings, charity experts say, could have broad implications, causing some donors to become wary about making gifts. In the first case…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Head of Humanics Group Wants to Spread ‘Best Kept Secret’
Kala M. Stroup has spent her career in academic circles, as professor, dean, college president, and, currently, Missouri’s commissioner of higher education. Her next challenge also involves education of a sort -- informing the American nonprofit world about the little-known organization that she…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for achievement in corporate involvement, fund raising, nonprofit management, philanthropy, and other areas: Community development. The first-place prize in the JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition, which fosters partnerships between graduate…
Measuring the Success of a Collaborative Youth-Development Program
Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco, by Karen E. Walker and Amy J.A. Arbreton, describes and analyzes the Beacons Initiative, a project started in 1994 by a group of San Francisco leaders determined to transform public schools in low-income neighborhoods into youth and family…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Analyzing Partnerships That Cut Across Sectors
What Works in Public/Private Partnering: Building Alliances for Youth Development, by William S. Reese, Cathryn L. Thorup, and Timothy K. Gerson, analyzes the experiences that the International Youth Foundation has had collaborating with a variety of partners, such as companies, nongovernmental…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Case Studies of Successful Community-Based Programs
Solutions for America: What’s Already Out There
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Planned-Giving Advice for Groups With Few Resources
Planned Giving for Small Nonprofits
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Decision makers do not all agree on the best way for constituents to contact them, says a new report published by the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, in Washington. For e-mail activism networks to be effective, nonprofit organizations need to learn what form of communication officials…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, in North Carolina, thinks that the computer is an essential appliance for the 21st-century home, not unlike a refrigerator or washing machine, and it has begun a $1-million project that by the end of the year will put a computer in every home the organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bringing Technology to the Global Village
The Hewlett-Packard Company, in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., have announced that they will earmark at least 20 percent of their philanthropy budgets for technology projects in developing countries. The companies made their pledges as they signed on to the CEO…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor