Recipients of President’s Service Awards
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…
$20-Million Pledged to UVa. for Sports Arena; Other Gifts
A Connecticut businessman has pledged $20-million over 10 years to the University of Virginia to help build a basketball arena. The donation was from Paul Tudor Jones II, who founded the Tudor Group, an investment company in Greenwich, Conn. Other big gifts: Bank Street College of Education (New…
Intel Executive Pledges $600-Million to Caltech
Gordon E. Moore, chairman emeritus of the Intel Corporation, and his wife, Betty, have pledged $600-million to the California Institute of Technology through a personal gift and through grants from their family foundation, the institute announced. The couple’s contribution is the largest ever to a…
By Laura Hruby
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MacArthur winner improves lives by providing housingWhen Rosanne Haggerty was growing up in West Hartford, Conn., her mother and father, ALSO SEE:Common Ground both schoolteachers, taught her to welcome those who were bereft of family and friends. On holidays, poor people from a nearby residential…
By nicole lewis
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New Telemarketing Law Called Too Restrictive by Some Fund Raisers
A law that gives the Federal Trade Commission new power to regulate appeals made by telemarketers on behalf of charities is drawing mixed reactions from fund raisers. When the federal agency issued sales-call rules in 1995, it exempted calls made by or for nonprofit groups. Now, charity appeals are…
By Debra E. Blum
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Former OMB Executive Steps In to Run September 11th Fund
The morning of September 11 found Joshua Gotbaum preparing to drive to New York from his Washington home. ALSO SEE:Under PressureAmerican Red Cross Names Interim Chief and Vows Additional ChangesRecovering From Controversy: Experts Offer Advice to the Red CrossSeptember 11 Donations: How Much…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Recovering From Controversy: Experts Offer Advice to the Red Cross
Anthony De Cristofaro, director of communications at the United Way in Washington, which provides funds to the American Red Cross and other groups. ALSO SEE:Under PressureAmerican Red Cross Names Interim Chief and Vows Additional ChangesSeptember 11 Donations: How Much Charities Have Raised and…
Newspaper Editorials Rebuke Red Cross for Response to Attacks
Chicago Tribune Many of the families of victims in the World Trade Center attacks, after being devastated by the deaths of loved ones, now are being jolted by a mess of a system established to help them out financially. A certain amount of confusion might have been expected. America’s amazing…
Charities jolted by mounting scrutiny and criticism of their response to September attacksTwo months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the dozens of ALSO SEE:American Red Cross Names Interim Chief and Vows Additional ChangesRecovering From Controversy: Experts…