Newsletter for Trustees Available Electronically
A free electronic newsletter for members of charity governing boards has been developed by two non-profit groups -- the Center for Nonprofit Management in San Francisco and the Volunteer Consulting Group in New York. Board Cafe, which is financed largely by the Charles Schwab Corporation…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Internet Magazine on Community Development
The enterprise foundation, a neighborhood-renewal group, has put a new on-line magazine on its World-Wide Web site to highlight people and organizations that are actively involved in community development. The December issue of horizon includes interviews with Beverly Sills, chairman of Lincoln…
Salary Raises at Foundations Keep Pace With Past Years
Salaries at U.S. foundations grew on average by 5 per cent this year -- the same rate as in the previous three years, the Council on Foundations says in a new report. According to the council’s latest compensation survey, the average salary increase among corporate grant makers was 4 per cent, also…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Government Has Found God, but Some Charities Are Skeptical of Conversion
At Gospel Rescue Ministries of Washington, D.C., clients who show up looking for a hot meal and a clean bed are no longer required to attend worship services. The Rev. Edward J. Eyring, executive director of the charity, says that the new policy simply makes sound theological sense. “Making people…
By Paul Demko
Contributor
Holiday Giving Means Donating Food and Clothing, Poll Finds
Americans are more likely to donate food, clothing, or other goods to charity this holiday season than do any other philanthropic act, a new survey has found. Seventy-nine per cent of adults interviewed in the poll said they planned to make such a donation to charity. The poll, conducted in behalf…
By Susan Gray
Contributor
Ford to Spotlight Government Success
The Ford Foundation has announced a new effort to publicize innovative and successful government programs across the country. The Partnership for Trust in Government is a coalition of 22 companies, charities, and labor unions that will identify and publicize effective government programs to their…
Grant Supports Study of Youths and Drugs
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will spend $20.5-million to try to find out what influences kids’ decisions to use or shun tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. The foundation, which in the last six years has poured more than $100-million into efforts to prevent children from smoking, also hopes to…
Money Manager Creates Fund to Aid Hometown in N.C.; Other Donations
Julian Robertson, Jr., a New York-based financier, has committed $15-million to establish a foundation in his hometown of Salisbury, N.C. Mr. Robertson is chairman of the investment company Tiger Management. He made the gift with his wife, Josie, and his sisters, Blanche Bacon and Wyndham…
3 of Doris Duke’s Homes Will House Foundations
The tobacco heiress Doris Duke not only left $1.25-billion in cash for her charitable foundation when she died, but she also bequeathed the foundation control of her homes. She requested in her will that three of the homes, which have an estimated value of $150-million, be turned into operating…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
Contributor
Catalogue Aims to Sell People on Giving
A new publication being distributed to a quarter-million Massachusetts residents may help spur charitable giving in a state that lags badly in that area. “The Catalogue for Philanthropy” is a collaborative effort by some of the state’s leading grant makers and philanthropists to stimulate giving by…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor