$140-Million Bequest to Benefit Atlanta Charities
Several Atlanta non-profit organizations are the beneficiaries of $140-million left by an heiress to a Coca-Cola fortune. Lee Edwards Candler, who died in February at the age of 84, was the widow of Charles Howard Candler, Jr., a director of Coca-Cola and a real-estate executive who died in 1988.…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Netscape Founder Gives $150-Million to Stanford University
Stanford University announced today that the high-technology entrepreneur James H. Clark has given $150-million to the institution for a biomedical-engineering center. Mr. Clark -- founder of Silicon Graphics and then of Netscape Communications and Healtheon, a company designed to streamline…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Giving and Volunteering in America
ALSO SEE: Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds Household Giving to Charity Comparisons of People Who Itemize Tax Deductions and Those Who Do Not Views on Charitable Organizations WHO DONATED TIME AND MONEY, 1993-98 1993 1995 1998 Percentage who gave to charity…
Playing the Percentages: How Giving Rates Affect a Big Foudnation’s Endowment
ALSO SEE: Playing the Percentages Perspectives on the Percentage of Assets Distributed to Charitable Causes Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
ALSO SEE: Playing the Percentages How Giving Rates Affect a Big Foundation’s Endowment Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Moving Giving Off the Dime: Giving by Americans, 1968-1998
ALSO SEE: Moving Giving off the Dime Philanthropy Takes the Bully Pulpit Big Gifts Do Little to Change National Giving Averages Growing Ranks of Fund Raisers Haven’t Increased a Key Measure of Giving Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Write-Offs: Arizona Tax Credits, Mormon Lobbying
* The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to stand a state-court ruling that permits Arizona residents to claim a tax credit for donations to non-profit scholarship organizations that help poor families pay for private-school tuition. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled earlier this year (The Chronicle,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Arts. The Business Committee for the Arts (New York) and Forbes magazine have announced the recipients of their 1999 Business in the Arts Awards: -- The Founders Award went to…
New Publications on Mentor Programs, Foundation-Payout Debate
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Contemporary Issues in Mentoring, edited by Jean Baldwin Grossman, is a report from Public/Private Ventures geared to grant makers who need to know how -- and if -- mentor programs work. The report includes evaluations of mentor programs run by Big Brothers Big Sisters and…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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