Charity Web Sites Spur Offline Gifts
As charities see their online fund-raising totals rise and they experiment with new ways to spur electronic ALSO SEE:Forging Links OnlineOnline Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringOnline Charitable Giving Tops $96-MillionCharities Try Rented E-Mail Lists giving, they are also…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Charitable Giving Tops $96-Million
Donors contributed more than $96-million over the Internet last year to 126 of the nation’s ALSO SEE:Forging Links OnlineOnline Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringCharity Web Sites Spur Offline GiftsCharities Try Rented E-Mail ListsMaking Oversight a Priority largest charities,…
By Martha Voelz
Contributor
Charities test new approaches to wooing donors on the InternetHeifer International, a charity in Little Rock, Ark., that gives livestock to needy families in developing ALSO SEE:Online Fund Raising: A Sampling of How Charities Are FaringOnline Charitable Giving Tops $96-MillionCharity Web Sites…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$30-Million Bequest Made to Iowa College; Other Gifts
A 1925 alumnus has bequeathed $30-million to Grinnell College, in Iowa. The donor, Joseph Frankel Rosenfield, of Des Moines, was the retired chairman of Younkers Department Stores, now owned by Saks Incorporated, and a former lawyer. The college will use $25-million of the gift to help build a new…
Youth Camp Founder Among Those Selected as Recent ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Foundations Increase Arts Giving
The nation’s foundations gave $3.69-billion to the arts in 2000, more than twice the amount provided in ALSO SEE:How Private Grant Making to Arts Groups Has Grown 1996, according to new estimates released by the Foundation Center. Key to the rise in dollars was the doubling and tripling of…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Helping Charities: Advice From Ford
Long an unofficial adviser to new foundations, the Ford Foundation this spring started a project called ALSO SEE:Grooming Better Grant Makers GrantCraft to provide a more formal way to dispense the advice and lessons it has learned during its more than 60 years, as well as tips culled from other…
Foundations start new efforts to share advice about their craftFor Yodon Thonden, who runs a small New York foundation established by her husband, a trip ALSO SEE:Helping Charities: Advice From Ford to South Africa in April provided an interesting exercise in grant-making dynamics. She and eight…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Photograph by Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association FoundationAbout 15 years ago, Ed Kavanaugh, president of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association, heard about a young cancer patient who had started showing signs of depression, due in part to her loss of hair and other side…