Charities Get Free Help in Building Web Sites
A free Web publishing service allows non-profit organizations -- and their local affiliates -- to create Web sites quickly and without having to know any Internet programming language. Charities can go to WeGo.com and build their own Web sites by filling in templates that the Palo Alto, Cal.,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Center Offers Nagoya Citizens a Desk, a Phone — and Lots of Assistance
Six years ago, while an industrial-science student at Nagoya University, ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanFew Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social FabricProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Tokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social Fabric
Cookies, cakes, and curries -- foreign foods that the Japanese have enthusiastically assimilated into their everyday cuisine ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanFew Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring That They Are…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Few Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots Organizations
As non-profit organizations seek growing influence in Japanese society, ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social FabricProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring That They Are HeardCenter Offers Nagoya Citizens a Desk, a Phone -- and…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Technicality Lowers Charities’ Take From Retirement-Fund Bequests
Planned-giving experts say that a minor provision of federal law ALSO SEE:Going After Retirement AccountsGrowth in Retirement Assets may discourage people from bequeathing their retirement-plan money to charities. According to the provision -- which is part of the law that governs the distribution…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Going After Retirement Accounts
Fund raisers urge donors to make bequests of tax-deferred savings Two years ago, a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, ALSO SEE:Technicality Lowers Charities’ Take From Retirement-Fund BequestsGrowth in Retirement Assets told officials at St. Paul’s that she had named…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Enemies of Prostate Cancer Among 7 ‘Points of Light’
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…
Assets of Casey Fund Sent Soaring
The Baltimore foundation established by United Parcel Service founder Jim Casey in 1948 was one of the largest beneficiaries when the company went public last month. Thanks to the rapid rise in the value of United Parcel Service stock in the wake of the initial public offering, the Annie E. Casey…
Goldman Sachs Changes Gift Policy
The Goldman Sachs investment house has announced that it will lift restrictions on the sale and transfer of its stock to allow current and retired top executives to donate the shares to charity. The company estimated that as much as $500-million could be available to charities. People who were top…
Race Issue Snags $28-Million Trust
A Baltimore nursing home is appealing a court ruling that bars it from receiving a $28-million trust. The Keswick Multi-Care Center refused to go along with the request of the donor, Jesse C. Coggins, that it restrict care to white patients. In his 1962 will, Dr. Coggins specified that if the…