Aspen Institute Announces Latest Grants to Support Research on Non-Profit Issues
When the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector Research Fund was set up in 1991, its backers saw it as a way to enhance the scope, quality, credibility, and independence of scholarly research on the non-profit world. Pooling grant money into a single, centralized source would make it easier and more…
‘How We Beg’: a Sampling of Research Topics
The annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, to be held next week in Indianapolis, will include presentations on some 250 research papers. Following is a sample of the papers: “Crooks and Angels: Public Attitudes Toward Non-Profit Action,” by…
2 Research Projects Aim to Provide Detailed Picture of Non-Profit Organizations
Researchers are conducting countless studies, both big and small, around the nation and world to chart the dimensions of non-profit activity and its effects on public policy and social welfare. Two of the hottest projects promise to yield important new information about the breadth and impact of…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Research on Charities Falls Short
Leaders of non-profit groups point to work they can’t use Mary Jo Buchanan, who runs a New Jersey charity that provides social services to the poor, is searching for ways to cope with new trends that could revolutionize how her organization operates. Ms. Buchanan, executive director of Family…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Consultants’ Group to Broaden Its Membership
The American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel has opened its membership to consultants who help charities in many ways besides fund raising, such as refining their missions, strengthening their boards, managing their grants, and publicizing their achievements. In addition, the A.A.F.R.C. has…
By Stephen G. Greene
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As baby boomers begin to retire, charities learn to take advantage of their skills and motivation Jack McConnell, a retired physician in Hilton Head Island, S.C., has a prescription for the nation’s health-care ills. Looking ahead to the retirement in the next two decades of millions of baby…
By Holly Hall
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Charities revamp fund raising to reach baby boomers, but some groups are slow to make changes Beech Acres in Cincinnati overcame one serious threat to its survival 20 years ago by transforming itself from an orphanage to a charity that helps abused kids. Now it is fighting hard again to insure that…
By Holly Hall
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Young Britons Giving Less to Charity
Fewer British households are giving to charity now than in the past two decades, although the average donation continues to increase faster than inflation, according to the latest statistical yearbook on Britain’s non-profit world. “Successive generations of young people are decreasingly likely to…
By Stephen G. Greene
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San Francisco Philanthropist Aids Cultural Institutions; Other Recent Gifts
The holiday gift-giving season has come early for several San Francisco cultural institutions, thanks to the largesse of Phyllis Wattis, a local philanthropist and arts patron. Mrs. Wattis has donated $20-million to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -- which comprises the M. H. de Young…
Danforth Foundation Pledges Large Gift
The Danforth Foundation in St. Louis has pledged $100-million to nearby Washington University. The gift of Ralston Purina Company stock will be made over the next five years and will be used to endow programs in biology, biomedicine, and the social sciences. It is the largest gift that the…