Long used to seek small donations, the phone becomes a major-gifts tool When the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, in Detroit, began its $100-million capital campaign last fall, it was clear the non-profit group did not have enough staff members or volunteers to solicit all of its potential…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Charity, Foundation Leaders Urge Changes at Tax Agency
Two major coalitions of non-profit organizations have written to the Internal Revenue Service, urging it to spend more on charity regulation, publish much more information to educate charities on important issues, and try to end a “brain drain” of experienced workers who have left the tax agency in…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
IRS Revokes Tax Exemption of Charity With Gingrich Ties
The I.R.S. has revoked the tax exemption of a charity, the Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Foundation, that had been caught up in an ethics controversy involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In a letter to the group, the revenue service said that the organization, which stopped operations in…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Charities Seek Changes to Proposed Excess-Pay Rules
Charity leaders, lawyers, and accountants have urged a panel of federal tax officials to make significant changes to proposed regulations that explain how a federal law designed to discourage overly generous compensation of non-profit officials will be enforced. The law, which Congress enacted in…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
Report on Birth Rates Among Teen-Agers Is Cautiously Optimistic
When Teens Have Sex: Issues and Trends reports that although the rate of pregnancy among teen-agers has fallen 14 per cent since 1990, the United States still leads the industrialized world in birth rates among that age group. This study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in Baltimore, presents…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Paper Studies Irish Volunteerism’s Role in Welfare
Reflections on “Green Paper on the Community and Voluntary Sector and its Relationship with the State,” by Eoin O’Sullivan, analyzes a recent discussion paper that attempted to define the role of voluntary organizations in shaping welfare policies in the Republic of Ireland. Mr. O’Sullivan, a…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Guide Examines Help for Associations
Strategic Alliances for Nonprofit Organizations
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Directory Profiles Work Done by Advocacy Groups
Public Interest Profiles 1998-1999
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
‘Tikkun’: New Money and Philanthropy
Members of the baby-boom generation have the potential to transform philanthropy as they inherit money from their parents and decide how to spend their own money, writes Stephen Goldbart in Tikkun magazine. But, he says, too many of the people who grew up as part of the ‘60s counterculture are so…
‘Fortune’: Bill Gates and His Charitable Giving
Microsoft founder Bill Gates faces a daunting challenge in deciding how to give away his wealth, according to a story in Fortune magazine (March 15). His two foundations, the William H. Gates and the Gates Learning Foundations, are “so large that they will have to give away some $325-million a year…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor