Sketching Out a Plan for Survival
Foundation-run gallery’s hopes hang on fund-raising strategyMerion, Pa In early February, the Barnes Foundation received its third $500,000 ALSO SEE:At a Glance: The Barnes Foundation grant since spreading the word last summer that it would run out of money in six months and be forced to close its…
By Debra E. Blum
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Lawmakers’ Dispute With Clinton Library Seen as Test of Donor Privacy
By HARVY LIPMANLegal experts and charity officials are expressing concern over the implications of the battle between former President Bill Clinton’s presidential-library foundation and a congressional committee over disclosure of donors’ names. Under several U.S. Supreme Court rulings, donor…
By Harvy Lipman
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Leprosy group wins a top honor for reviving its financial healthChristopher J. Doyle knew American Leprosy Missions was in trouble when he ALSO SEE:Donations to American Leprosy Missions was hired six years ago to turn around the nearly century-old Christian charity. Annual contributions had…
By nicole lewis
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$29-Million Bequest Made to Pennsylvania Hospital; Other Big Donations to Charities
The Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, in Allentown, Pa., will receive a $29-million bequest from Anne Anderson, who died last November at age 94, and her husband, Carl R. Anderson, who died in 1994 at age 96. The couple, who lived in Allentown, designated that the money be used for the…
Internet Millionaires’ Giving Behavior Profiled in New Book
By STEPHEN G. GREENEMost millionaires who made their fortunes in the Internet economy ALSO SEE: Philanthropy and High-Technology Millionaires give to charity -- and their philanthropic activity is likely to expand considerably over time, say the authors of a new book called eWealth. Four out of…
By Stephen G. Greene
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New ‘Points of Light’ Honorees
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…
Christian Churchgoers’ Giving Rises
By STEPHEN G. GREENEAt a time when government is turning to religious institutions for greater help ALSO SEE:Contributions to U.S. Protestant ChurchesContributions to Canadian Protestant Churches in tackling deep-rooted social problems, membership in Christian churches in the United States has…
By Stephen G. Greene
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How Study Measured Community Connections
The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, paid for by about three ALSO SEE:A Snapshot of Civic TiesSocial Connections: a Scorecard for 40 Regions dozen foundations, attempts to measure formal and informal social connections between people, using 11 different categories. They are: Giving and…
Oil heiress Swanee Hunt champions progressive causesWhen Swanee Hunt was a 30-year-old deciding what to call her new charitable foundation, ALSO SEE:Swanee Hunt’s Philanthropies she considered leaving out her last name. She didn’t want to go out of her way to remind anyone that her father was H.L.…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Photograph by Chris Casaburi, for The ChronicleIf clothes make the man, then a nonprofit group in New York has the right formula for helping thousands of men who are down on their luck and looking for new jobs. Career Gear, started in 1998, operates on the premise that a job seeker can greatly…