Handbook Shows Grant Seekers How to Use the Internet
The Foundation Center’s Guide to Grantseeking on the Web This guide is intended to provide an introduction to cyberspace for grant seekers and to erase the notion that the World-Wide Web and philanthropy don’t mix. After a brief introduction to the services offered by a Web “browser,” the book…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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A Comprehensive Guide to Fund Raising
The Complete Guide to Fund-Raising Management By Stanley Weinstein Mr. Weinstein, founder of the consulting company Baxter Farr Thomas & Weinstein, in Albuquerque, N.M., stresses that the best methods for snaring donations are the ones that rely heavily on research, record keeping, and internal…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Salvation Army Seeks Change in Grief-Counseling Measure
The 2000 Presidential race has brought attention to an effort by the Salvation Army to change a federal law that gives the American Red Cross control over providing grief counseling to people involved in airplane disasters. The Salvation Army, like the Red Cross, has long provided disaster relief…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Proposal Seeks Disclosures by Federal-Grant Recipients
Many universities, hospitals, and other non-profit institutions that receive federal grant money for research are balking at a requirement that would impose new public-disclosure obligations on them. And some observers fear the requirement could open the door to additional regulation of all federal…
By Jennifer Moore
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Canadian Charities Urged to Adopt Codes of Conduct
All non-profit organizations in Canada should adopt codes of governance and ethical fund raising as a way to reinforce public confidence in their activities, a prominent independent panel has recommended. The Canadian government, for its part, should establish a new commission to promote and…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Watchdog Organization Recommends 15 Standards for Local Charities
The Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service is recommending that its local affiliates use the following 15 standards to evaluate local non-profit organizations. The standards, from a list of 23 that the advisory service uses for its evaluations of national charities, are…
Ohio United Way Requires Charities to Pass Review by Outside Group
Each year, the Children’s Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, receives $50,000 or more in donations from the local United Way. ALSO SEE:Charity Watchdog Shifts Its GazeWatchdog Organization Recommends 15 Standards for Local Charities But this year, the pediatric hospital won’t receive a penny unless it…
By Anthony Giorgianni
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Charity Watchdog Shifts Its Gaze
A longtime monitor of national organizations is now also evaluating whether local groups meet its standards A growing number of charities may soon face increased scrutiny now that a major charity-watchdog group is turning more attention to local non-profit groups. ALSO SEE:Ohio United Way Requires…
By Anthony Giorgianni
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Settlement in Dispute Over Episcopal Name
A conservative splinter group of the Episcopal Church has agreed to drop the use of the denomination’s historical name, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The agreement was part of a court-approved settlement of a lawsuit that was filed early last year by two bishops…
Two Health Federations Combine Forces
Two fund-raising health federations that collect money primarily through on-the-job campaigns have merged. The National Voluntary Health Agencies and the Combined Health Appeal of America have joined to form Community Health Charities. The new organization represents 62 non-profit organizations…