Survey Measures Minnesota Artists’ Financial, Creative Welfare
6 Questions, 2,430 Answers: The Cost of Culture is a follow-up survey to the McKnight Foundation’s 1996 report Here and Now, which described the state of the arts in Minnesota. This survey, which polled 405 individual dancers, writers, musicians, actors, and visual artists in Minnesota, was…
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
Looking to Traditional Values to Solve Today’s Social Problems
What Makes Charity Work? A Century of Public and Private Philanthropy
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
Guide to Fund Raising for Nonprofit Boards
Fearless Fund-Raising: The Video Workshop
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
Evaluation Manual for Nonprofit Organizations
Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
$13-Million Raised in On-the-Job Drives
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway, a company in San Carlos, Calif., managed 12 electronic on-the-job giving campaigns this fall that brought in a total of more than $13-million for charity. The campaigns -- administered for companies such as Agilent Technologies, the Hewlett-Packard Company, Morgan…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bush Transition Sparks Internet Campaign
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral progressive advocacy groups have launched a coordinated Internet campaign to voice their concerns about the Bush administration. For the first 100 days of the new administration, the TransitionWatch.org Web site and e-mail newsletter will feature news and action alerts from…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Group Seeks to Promote Online Giving
By NICOLE WALLACEA new organization has been created to promote an environment in which contributors feel comfortable making gifts online. It also hopes to help charities use the Internet to strengthen their relationships with donors. As its first order of business, ePhilanthropyFoundation.Org, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Agency Fines Prudential Securities $800,000 in New Era Philanthropy Scandal
By DEBRA E. BLUMThe Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Prudential Securities $800,000 for its part in a scandal involving the Foundation for New Era Philanthropy. The fine is in addition to the $18-million that the brokerage company agreed to pay in 1996 to settle lawsuits filed by a…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
White House Proposes Tax Breaks to Spur Giving to the Nation’s Charities
By GRANT WILLIAMSWhile most of the national attention last week focused on the White House’s ALSO SEE: Charity Gets a Seat Near the Oval Office Bush’s Charity Aide: In His Own Words Charitable Giving and Bush’s Tax Proposal plan to help faith-based organizations, President Bush says his…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Bush’s Charity Aide: In His Own Words
John J. DiIulio Jr., President Bush’s new White House adviser on faith-based and community initiatives, is a ALSO SEE:Charity Gets a Seat Near the Oval OfficeWhite House Proposes Tax Breaks to Spur Giving to the Nation’s Charities political-science scholar who has written widely about the role of…