Fund Offers Grants for Humanities Projects
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now offering grants to support high-tech projects such as CD-ROM’s, Web sites, or interactive video exhibits aimed at expanding audiences for the humanities. Libraries, museums, public television and radio stations, and other non-profit groups focused on…
By Paul Demko
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Free Internet Course on Managing Charities
Charity officials and others can now participate in a free, 12-course non-profit management program without ever leaving their desks. The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits, in St. Paul, is offering the program on its Web site. Topics of study include fund raising and grant-proposal…
By Paul Demko
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Food Bank Touts Benefits of Technology
The Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida has posted a report on line detailing its efforts to increase its efficiency through technology. Since early last year, the Fort Myers charity has received about $40,000 worth of computers, printers, and software, as well as technical assistance, from…
By Paul Demko
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The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Arts.The McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) has presented its inaugural McKnight Distinguished Artist Award to Dominick Argento, composer laureate of the Minnesota Orchestra…
Residential-Care Company Captures Growing Share of Field Ruled by Charities
The mission statement could easily belong to a charity: “Res-Care exists to insure that all human beings have the chance to realize their full potential, no matter what the obstacle, no matter what the challenge,” it reads. “We care. We serve. With compassion, with skill, with effectiveness, with…
By Jennifer Moore
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Excerpts From Proposed I.R.S. Rules on Excess Compensation at Charities
Following are excerpts from the Internal Revenue Service’s explanation of its proposal to carry out a 1996 federal law that allows the agency to impose penalties on charity officials, trustees, and others who receive overly lucrative financial benefits through their association with charitable…
IRS unveils proposed rules to crack down on high pay The Internal Revenue Service has released proposed regulations to explain how it will enforce a law designed to punish top executives and board members who receive overly generous financial benefits through their involvement with non-profit…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Charity and Fund-Raising Company Settle Lawsuit
A Tennessee charity and its fund-raising company have agreed to change their solicitation practices and pay a total of $125,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the State of Minnesota. Neither the charity nor the company acknowledged any wrongdoing. The United Children’s Fund, in Knoxville, which was…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Estate planners are marketing ‘split-dollar’ insurance as a boon for donors, but the IRS wants to know if the strategy is legal The Internal Revenue Service is looking into a controversial method of giving in which charities appear to pay for life-insurance policies on donors using tax-deductible…
By Vince Stehle
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Billionaire Promises $200-Million to Help Armenia; Other Recent Gifts
The billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian has pledged $200-million to benefit people in Armenia. Half the money will be used for an interest-free lending program to benefit entrepreneurs in Armenia and to spur economic development there. The rest will be used primarily for road construction and to…