Charities Offered Help With Millennium Bug
A Seattle non-profit group called NPower, which provides technology assistance to other charities, is organizing a “Y2K Day of Service,” during which more than 200 volunteers will help 140 local non-profit groups test their computers and software for possible year-2000 problems. The year-2000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Author Recounts Internet Successes
The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet: How to Survive and Thrive, Second Edition
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Book Explores Culture of Latino Giving
Nuevos Senderos: Reflections on Hispanics and Philanthropy
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Guide Details Foundations, Officers
Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors, 1999 Edition
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
California United Way Dismisses CEO Amid Charges of Financial Wrongdoing
Though located in the heart of wealthy Silicon Valley, the United Way of Santa Clara County is on the verge of financial collapse after spending virtually all of its reserve fund and giving more money to charities over the past five years than it had raised. Government and philanthropic…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
United Ways Hope to Enhance Their Profiles With New Marketing Technique
Federal Express does it. ALSO SEE:‘Branding': a Hot Trend for Charities So do Kmart and I.B.M. And now United Way of America is doing it too. The national organization is undertaking a pilot program aimed at enhancing its institutional identity -- or “brand” image -- as an organization that listens…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Old and New Trustees of the Bishop Estate
ALSO SEE:Trustees Ousted in Hawaii Removed or Resigned Appointed as Interim Trustees Richard S.H. Wong: Chairman. Former state legislator; president of Hawaii Senate (1979-92). Trustee since 1993. Removed temporarily May 7. Gerard A. Jervis: Lawyer and real-estate developer. Trustee since 1994.…
Move by court seeks to avert threat to Bishop Estate’s tax exemption A long struggle to wrest control of one of America’s wealthiest and most powerful charities ALSO SEE:Old and New Trustees of the Bishop EstateFROM THE ARCHIVES:9/17/89: For Trustees Who Run Hawaii’s Bishop Estate, the Rewards Are…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Shared Mailing Delivers for AIDS Charity
In November, thousands of Washington-area residents opened their mailboxes and found a white envelope that looked like it had been dropped off by a neighbor. ALSO SEE:Innovative Fund-Raising Efforts Are Low in Cost and High on Appeal All it said on the outside was “Please RSVP,” along with the…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
On-Line Contest Nets Cash Prizes for Charities
Charities increasingly are benefiting from companies’ efforts to sell goods and services on line. A promotion for a stock-market game on the Internet, for example, ALSO SEE:Innovative Fund-Raising Efforts Are Low in Cost and High on Appeal is bringing in $50,000 to the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club…
By Holly Hall
Contributor