Profiles of End-of-Life Care Programs
Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies recounts the founding of nine end-of-life care programs designed to relieve the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and help families cope with their loved ones’ illnesses. Each of the narratives is written by the doctor, nurse, or…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Family Funds’ Grant Making in the Arts
Creative Family Giving in the Arts, by Laurel Jones and Morrie Warshawski, profiles grant making in the arts by 18 family foundations and family giving groups. Unlike many larger private grant makers, a number of those funds award grants to individual artists. This book is part of the series…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Running Charities Like Entrepreneurial Businesses
Social Entrepreneurship: The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
Philanthropy Can Shape Society, Politics for the Better, Author Claims
Making the Money Sing: Private Wealth and Public Power in the Search for Peace
By Gwen A. Williamson
Contributor
Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups
By NICOLE WALLACE Among the seven new top-level Internet domain names recommended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was dot-museum. (Top-level domain names are the last part of an Internet address, such as dot-com or dot-org, that indicate what type of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Corporate Citizenship Detailed Online
By NICOLE WALLACEInvestors who want to know if the companies in which they own stock are good corporate citizens can turn to a new online resource. The Corporate Social Research Center rates 1,000 companies on their commitment to fair labor practices, the environment, product quality and safety,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Sports and Computers Help Detroit Youngsters
By NICOLE WALLACEThink Detroit combines balls and bats with bits and bytes to offer educational and athletic opportunities to the city’s children. This year more than 1,400 children from ages 5 to 14 competed in baseball, basketball, soccer, and softball leagues organized by the Detroit charity.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Smart Money’: Ranking Charities
Smart Money (December) rates 100 big charities to determine which ones are most efficient. To develop the ratings, the magazine looked at three years’ worth of financial data and calculated how much of an organization’s budget goes to charitable programs. That ratio was given 60 percent weight in…
‘Worth’: Charity as Status Symbol
Charity is today’s ultimate status symbol among the newly wealthy, declares Worth magazine on the cover of its December issue. The issue contains several articles on various facets of philanthropy: A profile of the philanthropists featured on the cover, Steve and Michele Kirsch. Mr. Kirsch, 43,…
‘Fortune’: United Ways Face Challenges
United Ways help millions of people who desperately need assistance, observes Fortune magazine (November 27)."But at a time when donors question the need for an organization that processes money to other charities, the organization has been convulsed by internal squabbling over how it will govern…