Canadian Real-Estate Agent Turns Commissions Into Donations
Canadian real-estate broker has started a new organization, Charity Begins With Your Home, ALSO SEE:Innovative Fund-Raising Efforts Are Low in Cost and High on Appeal to help people make gifts to charity when they sell or buy a home. The new organization is based on the practice of obtaining…
By Holly Hall
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Hospital Solicits Its Own Employees Through United Way
The Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis has found an effective way to solicit its own employees for gifts: ALSO SEE:Innovative Fund-Raising Efforts Are Low in Cost and High on Appeal by piggybacking onto a campaign that the local United Way had held at the hospital for years. The idea stemmed from…
By Holly Hall
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Innovative Fund-Raising Efforts Are Low in Cost and High on Appeal
In recent years many charities have sought to increase their revenue by cutting their fund-raising expenses. ALSO SEE:Hospital Solicits Its Own Employees Through United WayCanadian Real-Estate Agent Turns Commissions Into DonationsOn-Line Contest Nets Cash Prizes for CharitiesShared Mailing…
By Holly Hall
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For Many Charities, Sweepstakes Fall Out of Favor as a Fund-Raising Idea
The number of charities that raise money through sweepstakes has been slipping in recent years, ALSO SEE:Big Stakes for Charities? after the contests’ popularity peaked last decade, experts say. No statistics exist to measure how much money charities earn through sweepstakes each year, or even how…
By Debra E. Blum
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Pending legislation to curb shady for-profit sweepstakes raises concerns among non-profit groups that offer mail-in contests Charities that solicit money through sweepstakes might get stung by a government crackdown on deceptive offers sent by businesses. State and federal government leaders say…
By Debra E. Blum
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Donors in Illinois Gave $4.8-Billion
Individuals, corporations, and foundations in Illinois contributed a total of $4.8-billion to charities in 1997, according to a new study by the Donors Forum of Chicago. The state’s foundations and corporations made $917-million in charitable grants and donations, it said. The report, “Giving in…
$100-Million Gift to Fight AIDS
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a New York pharmaceutical maker, has announced plans to spend $100-million to help African women and children afflicted with the AIDS virus. The money will be directed to efforts in five countries -- Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The money,…
Conservationist, Musician Among 12 ‘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…
2 Law Schools in North Carolina Share $14-Million; Other Gifts
Donors have pledged big gifts to six organizations. * The law schools at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share $14-million from the estate of Kathrine R. Everett, a lawyer who died in 1992 at the age of 98. Neither university would disclose the amount they…
Funds That Give to Jewish Causes Often Work in Isolation, Report Says
Foundations that specialize in giving to Jewish causes often operate in isolation from each other and therefore miss opportunities to share information and work together on common interests, says a new report financed by a group of those funds. What’s more, Jewish foundations do not have sufficient…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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