9 of 10 Companies Have Charity Marketing Deals
By DEBRA E. BLUMTwo new surveys have found that about nine out of ten companies are working with charities in what may be termed joint marketing arrangements. The arrangements, often called cause-related marketing, include deals such as sponsorships, in which businesses pay for charity events in…
Tips on Deciding Whether Your Charity Should Be Listed on Giving Web Sites
By HOLLY HALL Whether they like it or not, most of the nation’s charities are now listed on one or more Internet sites that promote giving to large numbers of non-profit groups. To help charities ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving Sites: a SamplerA Brave New World of GivingDonation Sites With a Twist: Some…
Big Charities Have Raised Very Little Online So Far
By HARVY LIPMANInternet fund raising may be the wave of the future, but it’s barely a ripple in the present. A Chronicle survey of 252 of the largest non-profit organizations in the nation found that, in 1999, ALSO SEE: Charitable Giving Sites: a Sampler A Brave New World of Giving Donation Sites…
Donation Sites With a Twist: Some New Approaches
By HOLLY HALL As Internet companies struggle to find a niche in the online fund-raising arena, some are coming up with variations on the usual online donation sites, ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving Sites: a SamplerA Brave New World of GivingBig Charities Have Raised Very Little Online So FarTips on…
Translator for Chinese-Speaking Patients Is Among New ‘Points of Light’ Award Winners
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’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…
Briefly Noted: Reagan Friends Raising Money and $70-Million Donated to Birthright Israel
A group of Southern California philanthropists who are friends of Ronald Reagan is raising $180-million in his honor for two institutions. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, in Simi Valley, Calif., is to receive $30-million for endowment, and the new Medical Center at the University…
McGill U. Receives $43-Million
McGill University, in Montreal, has received its largest-ever donation from a single individual, $43-million from alumnus Richard H. Tomlinson. The donation was $64-million in Canadian dollars. Mr. Tomlinson, 76, an emeritus chemistry professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, earned…
Giving in California Examined in Report
Residents of California give more money to charity and volunteer more time than do people elsewhere around the country, according to a new report published by the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. Nine out of ten California households report donating…
Stanford U., Idaho Fund Are Among Recipients of Big Gifts
Several organizations have received large gifts. * Lorry I. Lokey, founder of Business Wire, has given $20-million to Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., to build a research facility for the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry. The structure is expected to cost $50-million and…
Charity Wine Auctions Raise Record Amounts
There was a time when Community Health Clinic OLE, a charity that provides medical services ALSO SEE:A Crush of Charitable Activity to Napa County’s farmworkers and other low-income residents, operated a satellite office out of an old A&W Root Beer stand in remote Lake Berryessa. Twice a week in…
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