Advice and Inspiration for Volunteering Abroad
How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for achievement in leadership, management, research, and volunteerism: Higher education. The Council of Independent Colleges (Washington) has presented its 2002 Allen P. Splete Award for Outstanding Service to Patricia Willis, president of the BellSouth…
Sports Fan Repays Her Idols by Advising Them on Giving
When E. Hadley Morash moved to Boston at age 12, school hadn’t started yet and she didn’t know a soul. To take her mind off being the new kid in town, she would watch Red Sox ALSO SEE:About E. Hadley Morash, Founder of MVPhilanthropy games on television with her mother or go to Fenway Park with her…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
‘Fast Company’: Planning for 25 Years
By Elizabeth Greene Planned Parenthood’s effort to develop a 25-year plan should be a model for nonprofit organizations, says Fast Company (February). The effort began in 1998, soon after Gloria Feldt became chief executive of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Ms. Feldt says she worried…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
‘New York’: a Major Arts Patron
By Elizabeth Greene Alberto Vilar has probably given more to support classical music than any other donor, but his gifts often come with demands for public acknowledgment and a role in helping to manage the nonprofit groups he supports, says New York magazine (January 21). The 61-year-old…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
‘Newsweek’: Giving by the Gateses
By Ian Wilhelm In a cover story on the philanthropy of Bill and Melinda Gates, Newsweek magazine (February 4) reports that the world’s wealthiest man is motivated to give largely by statistics about the problems of developing countries, while his wife is more responsive to problems she has seen in…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
Effort to Link Charities Adds Offline Network
A nonprofit organization that has spent the past six years helping charities and individuals connect online is now trying to build a worldwide network to connect them offline as well. The Idealist Web site currently offers a searchable database of more than 25,000 nonprofit organizations around the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Campaign Seeks Used Computers
A San Francisco charity hopes its new press campaign and research project on computer recycling will put more usable donated computers in the hands of nonprofit organizations and schools while keeping older machines out of landfills. For more than five years CompuMentor has maintained a list of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Seattle Charity Announces 6 Affiliates Nationwide
NPower is going national. The Seattle nonprofit organization, which provides technology assistance to other charities, has announced six new affiliates in cities across the country. The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., made a commitment of $10-million in cash and $15-million in software…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
D.C. United Way Moves to Quell Complaints
Allegations of mismanagement at the nation’s fourth-largest United Way -- including claims of cronyism in a contract for an outgoing executive and improper spending to renovate the chief executive’s office -- have led the board of the United Way of the National Capital Area, in Washington, to…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor