Times Are Changing: New Donors, Methods for Giving
How to Become A Grant Writing Consultant: A Start-Up Guide for Your Home-Based Business is for the “amazed, dazed, and even crazed trying to figure out how to break into the field and make a full-time living writing grants and doing grants-related consulting,” writes the author, a full-time…
By Beverly A. Browning
Contributor
Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers
This guide, written by a lawyer who specializes in nonprofit cases, discusses the laws that govern charity fund raising. Using simple, straightforward language, Mr. Hopkins shows fund-raising professionals, nonprofit executives, board members, lawyers, accountants, and others not only how to…
By Bruce R. Hopkins
Contributor
High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities
Economic prosperity and changed perceptions of the role of philanthropy have led not only to an outpouring of generosity but also to a new style of giving that nonprofit organizations, their leaders, and donors must understand, say the authors of this new book. Today’s donors “are looking for…
By Alan L. Wendroff
Contributor
This book presents 46 case studies from nonprofit organizations of various sizes and concerns. Alvin H. Reiss, editor and publisher of Arts Management, chose the examples, not because of the scope of each project, but because “concepts used by the organizations have been best suited to meeting a…
By Alvin H. Reiss
Contributor
Bits: Software-Donation Program; Virus Vaccination Day
By NICOLE WALLACE The Microsoft Corporation will be accepting applications for its Technology Leadership Grant program through April 2. Since 1997, the program has awarded Microsoft software to help large nonprofit groups improve their communications and operations and to use the Internet to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spontaneous Campaign Reaps Charity Windfall
By NICOLE WALLACEPropelled by the Internet, a spontaneous fund-raising campaign raised more than $600,000 for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates. In the January 26 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the columnist Patt Morrison wrote that she planned to celebrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online-Giving Company to Cease Operations
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway -- one of the best-known and best-financed of the recent e-philanthropy ventures -- has announced that it is shutting down operations. ALSO SEE:The E-Philanthropy Revolution Is Here to StayFROM THE ARCHIVES:Internet Entrepreneur Tries to Bring Employee Giving On Line…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How to Contact Pro Bono Art Programs
ALSO SEE: Showcasing the Good Works That Art Students Do for Charity Following are organizations that are part of Arts Institutes, a network of educational organizations that provide instruction in culinary arts, design, fashion, and media arts. Students from the institutes often do free projects…
Showcasing the Good Works That Art Students Do for Charity
Leaders of Eastside Adult Day Services, in Bellevue, Wash., wanted to fill ALSO SEE:How to Contact Pro Bono Art Programs the walls of their center with portraits of their elderly and disabled patients, but the nonprofit group didn’t have funds to pay a professional to take the pictures. So Eastside…
Bush’s Budget: Key Items of Interest to Charities
President Bush’s economic plan contains numerous provisions that would affect nonprofit groups, including a proposal to establish a Federal Compassion Capital Fund to help needy Americans. In an address to a joint session of Congress last week, the president outlined his budget proposal for the…