More Than Half of Youths Plan to Volunteer
Two-thirds of young people say they are likely to get involved in nonprofit and other efforts to promote good works during the next year, according to new poll results. Among the most-popular causes: fighting discrimination, building self-esteem, improving schools and other educational efforts, and…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Phone Company’s Charity Deal Raises Money –Â and Questions
In Bedford, Ind., the First Assembly of God church has raised $6,000 through an unusual and somewhat controversial twist on the joint-marketing deals that charities and companies have engaged in for more than two decades. About a dozen other small organizations nationwide have also raised at least…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Conservationist Reaches for Handheld Computer to Track Wildlife
Researcher Louis Liebenberg was tracking animals with a bushman hunter in Africa’s Kalahari Desert over a decade ago when he realized how valuable the knowledge of traditional trackers could be to wildlife conservation efforts. Just by looking at a set of animal prints, an expert tracker knows what…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Good Works in the Palm of a Hand
Social services and disaster aid transformed by small computersRegistered nurse Cindy Johnson no longer lugs bulky medical files with her on the house calls ALSO SEE:Conservationist Reaches for Handheld Computer to Track WildlifeCompanies That Donate Handheld Computers to Charities she makes to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Postal Increase to Be Proposed
After raising postage rates twice already this year, the U.S. Postal Service last week announced that it planned to propose another increase that would go into effect next year. Citing a projected deficit of $1.65-billion in 2001, the Board of Governors of the service will request an average…
Workers Value Payroll Deductions
Forty-seven percent of 400 workers who responded to a new survey said they believed it was important for companies to offer payroll deductions as a way for employees to contribute to charity. The survey was conducted by SWR Worldwide for Earth Share, a Washington nonprofit organization that raises…
55% of Americans Read Direct-Mail Appeals From Charities, Survey Finds
Direct mail is the No. 1 way that Americans learn about the charities they support, according ALSO SEE:How Americans Decide to Give and How Much They Donate to a new survey. Other top ways donors get information about nonprofit organizations: through their churches or from friends and relatives.…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Reeling In Rebates for Charity
Groups encourage taxpayers to donate their federal refundsPresident Bush is hoping people will jump-start the economy by spending their federal tax rebates on consumer goods, but Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Sacramento, in California, had another idea. It recently put on a fund-raising event…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Briefly Noted: New $100-Million Program; Schwab Foundations Merge
A foundation formed in 1997 by Steve Case, chairman of AOL Time Warner, and his wife, Jean, plans to devote $100-million of its assets to a new program focused on using science and technology to improve medical research and treatment and public-health efforts. Richard Klausern, director of the…
Jones Fund to Split Into Three Units
Trustees of the W. Alton Jones Foundation have announced that they are dissolving the foundation and distributing its assets among three new charitable organizations that will be headed by members of the Jones family. In a letter to its grantees, the foundation said it would honor all of its…