‘Smart Money’: Helping Attack Victims
By Elizabeth Greene Running from downtown Manhattan on September 11 to escape the buildings collapsing a few blocks from her public-relations firm, Dana Victoria Sophia thought about the children who were suddenly left without one of their parents, recounts Smart Money magazine (December). Within…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Elizabeth Greene
South African Charity Among Tech-Award Winners
Four individuals and one charity were honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative use of technology to benefit society. The San Jose, Calif., museum received more than 390 nominations, representing 50 countries. A group of judges assembled by Santa Clara University’s Center for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Technology Fund Will Provide Equipment
The Oracle Corporation, in Redwood Shores, Calif., has created a new grant-making organization to increase access to the Internet in schools and nonprofit organizations that serve young people from needy families. The company has committed to provide $6-million worth of equipment in the Oracle Help…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Tech Companies Team Up to Form Charity Site
AOL Time Warner, Cisco Systems, and Yahoo have joined together to start a new philanthropy Web site -- and a nonprofit organization to run it. The site, Network for Good, incorporates the tools and resources of Helping.org, the online giving site that the AOL Time Warner Foundation has operated…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$48,000 Is Average Pay for Canadian Charity CEO’s
Executive directors of Canadian charities this year make an average of $48,010 (U.S. dollars), according to a new survey by the Canadian Society of Association Executives, in Toronto. The society’s 20th annual compensation survey examined four levels of management at four types of nonprofit…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Key Figure in American Jewish Philanthropy Linked to Israeli Investigation
Two small charities connected to one of the foremost figures in American Jewish philanthropy have been named in an Israeli investigation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s 1999 election campaign. Israel’s state comptroller says in a new report that three nonprofit organizations, two of them linked to…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Museums Given New Guidelines for the Art of Dealing With Business
The country’s largest museum group, admonishing its members to draw strict boundaries around the deals they strike with corporate donors, has called for museums to maintain control over their exhibitions and to disclose to the public the arrangements they make with contributors. The advice from the…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Easing of IRS Policy Lets Relief Groups Disburse Funds Regardless of Need
Charities that collected disaster-relief funds following the September terrorist attacks say they will now be able to distribute money far more quickly because the Internal Revenue Service has reversed its longstanding policy requiring nonprofit groups to support only people who are financially…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Red Cross Plans to Spend All Donations to Help September 11 Attack Victims
After enduring weeks of criticism, the American Red Cross appears to have assuaged the concerns of government officials and donors by declaring that it will spend all the money it collected after September 11 solely to help the victims of the terrorist attacks. Originally the charity had said it…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Relief Worker’s Advice: Tend to Your Own Needs as You Tend to Others
Dan Kurtenbach knows only too well the months and years of hard work that lie ahead for charity workers in New York, Washington, and elsewhere who are now helping people affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks. As president of Oklahoma Goodwill Industries in Oklahoma City at the time of the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor