4-H Defends Anti-Smoking Program Financed by Tobacco Company
Anti-smoking advocates, health charities, and leaders of 4-H groups around the country are troubled ALSO SEE:Few Charities Likely to Get Tobacco-Settlement Funds by the National 4-H Council’s plans to use a $4.3-million grant from the nation’s biggest cigarette maker to pay for a new effort to…
By Debra E. Blum
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But efforts to win private funds spur fears of competition, commercialism The booklet’s front cover reads “Catalogue,” but this is no showcase for designer jeans or gleaming kitchenware. ALSO SEE:Top 30 Donors to U.N. Refugee Agency Mailed to 2,500 Americans, the pamphlet lists dozens of former…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Photograph by Harvey Wang About 150 million people worldwide are infected with trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. Nearly six million of them have already been blinded by the disease, which is caused by an infectious bacterium that is endemic to more than a dozen countries…
Fund Raisers Drum Up New Business
More and more charities are looking to turn entrepreneurs into donors The Pittsburgh Public Theater has won a reputation for pushing artistic boundaries. ALSO SEE:Getting Entrepreneurs to Give: a Sampling of Resources Now it is trying to push conventional fund-raising boundaries by seeking big…
By Holly Hall
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AARP Services (Washington): Appointed Suzanne Cox, vice-president for marketing at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be director of marketing services, and Roberta J. Milman, chief executive officer of Georgetown U. Medical Center’s Physician Network (Washington) and the center’s director of…
The Nation’s 10 Wealthiest Private Foundations
ALSO SEE: Gift Makes Gates Fund No. 1 in U.S. Assets Estimated 1999 giving Year established 1 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) $17.1-billion 1 $500-million 1994 2 David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Cal.) $13.0-billion1 $440-million 1964 3 Ford Foundation (New York)…