Fund-Raising Software Is Subject of New E-Mail List
An independent e-mail discussion list has been formed for people who use Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge fund-raising software. The new e-mail forum, called the Raiser’s Edge Users Group, was started by a charity fund raiser who wishes to remain anonymous. He said he was frustrated that the company’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Campaign Mimics Initial Public Offering
The Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County is going public. Taking a page from the playbook of the high-technology companies that dominate Silicon Valley, the San Jose, Cal., volunteer center is modeling its annual fund-raising campaign on an initial public offering. In the business world, an…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Call for Cooperation in Behalf of the Powerless
Philanthropy and business must form a bold new alliance to combat world poverty, international assembly is told Improving the lives of the world’s poor and powerless in the next millennium will require creative collaboration between voluntary organizations and businesses, several speakers told an…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Moving Away From Donor Designation
As general funds drop, United Ways try to curb gifts to specific charities Baltimore’s United Way raised $39-million in its 1998-99 campaign -- more than it had ever collected before. But the 68 local health and human-services charities that the United Way supports annually didn’t benefit from the…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
White House Honors 10 New ‘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…
Millennium Program Seeks to Aid Kids
The International Youth Foundation hopes to raise $200-million for youth groups in just 60 minutes. In the same amount of time, Share Our Strength expects to raise at least $500,000 for programs to combat childhood hunger. Both organizations plan to meet their fund-raising goals through separate,…
Lilly: $50-Million for Education
The Lilly Endowment, in Indianapolis, has started a $50-million grants program for Indiana community foundations that undertake efforts to improve the education of people in the region they serve. Lilly Endowment leaders said they felt that community foundations were in a good position to gather…
Financier Pledges Millions for Schools
Eli Broad, chairman of the SunAmerica financial-services company, has set aside $100-million to strengthen the nation’s urban school districts. The money will be funneled into the Broad Foundation, which Mr. Broad established in Los Angeles last year. The schools program is in the formative stage,…
Survey Shows Views on Corporate Giving
Americans favor companies that spread their charitable dollars around to many causes and events rather than to just one or two, according to a new survey. The survey of about 1,000 people was commissioned by Hill and Knowlton’s strategic-philanthropy unit, which advises companies on giving, and was…
3 Universities Get Big Gifts; Other Recent Donations
Three universities have received big gifts: * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received an unrestricted bequest of $28.6-million from the estate of David Benjamin Clayton, of Bessemer, Ala. Mr. Clayton, a 1949 alumnus, owned several H&R Block franchises. Before he died in 1978,…