Education Group Seeks Estate-Tax Changes
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is urging Congress to “reject outright repeal” of the estate tax in favor of increasing the dollar amount of estates exempted from the tax. In a letter to key senators, Vance T. Peterson, president of CASE, which represents college and…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Education. Spelman College (Atlanta) has received the 2001 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Award for Excellence, which recognizes overall excellence and significant improvement in an educational…
Tobacco-Control Groups Teach Lessons About Coalition Building
Working Together, Moving Ahead: A Manual to Support Effective Community Health Coalitions, by Shoshanna Sofaer, uses the experiences of tobacco-control coalitions to make broader points about the ways in which people can create and manage successful cooperative organizations. The manual covers the…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Using Media to Promote Social Change
Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change, by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, presents 50 stories of groups worldwide that promote social change using community radio, video, theater, the Internet, and other media. Those organizations sought to empower poor communities “to…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
Raising Money at Nonprofit Groups With Small Budgets
Fundraising for Social Change, Fourth Edition
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
The Ethical Considerations of Giving
The Ethics of Giving and Receiving: Am I My Foolish Brother’s Keeper?
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
Awards Honor Grant Makers’ Efforts to Apprise the Public of Their Work
The Council on Foundations this week will present 98 awards to honor grant ALSO SEE:Winners of the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards makers for creating materials to educate the public about their work. The 18th annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications, named after the council’s…
Salaries of New York Fund Raisers Rose 15% in 2000, New Survey Finds
By GRANT WILLIAMSSalaries paid to fund raisers at nonprofit organizations in the New York ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Pay: Salary Ranges at Organizations in New York City City area generally increased 15 to 20 percent from 1999 to 2000, says a new report on compensation. Over all, the report said, nonprofit…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Online Newsletters Offer Technology Advice
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral new electronic newsletters offer charities free advice about how to use information technology in their work and in their fund raising. Published monthly by two nonprofit technology consultants, Marc Osten and Michael Stein, Dot Org offers charities advice on how to use…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bay Area Collaboration to Help Charities
By NICOLE WALLACECompuMentor and the Management Center, two San Francisco organizations that provide technology assistance to other nonprofit groups, have announced a partnership in which they will work together to help charities develop and carry out strategic technology plans. Each organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor