The hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean uses his fame and marketing skills to assist charities in his poverty-stricken homeland.
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Charities Say House Bill Would Restrict Work in Gaza
Charities that provide aid in the Palestinian territories worry that new restrictions being considered by Congress could put a severe strain on their work. Legislation approved by the House of Representatives last month and pending in the Senate would bar the U.S. government from giving funds to…
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Need Is Great, but Charities Say Raising Funds for Darfur Proves Challenging
By Caroline PrestonAs secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan’s relationship to the U.N. World Food Programme is not ALSO SEE:Article: Care in the CrossfireArticle: Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Rallies Support for Darfur typically that of benefactor. But in May, Mr. Annan gave the…
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Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Rallies Support for Darfur
Swarthmore College’s idyllic Pennsylvania campus is thousands of miles away from the violence that erupted three ALSO SEE:Article: Care in the CrossfireArticle: Need Is Great, but Charities Say Raising Funds for Darfur Proves Challenging years ago in Sudan’s Darfur region. But Mark Hanis says that,…
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Charity workers in Sudan face obstacles on many frontsIn early April, the Norwegian Refugee Council received an unusual eviction notice. Sudanese officials gave the Oslo ALSO SEE:Article: Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Rallies Support for DarfurArticle: Need Is Great, but Charities Say Raising…
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American Charities Seek Aid for Indonesian Quake Relief
By Brennen Jensen, Candie Jones, and Caroline Preston More than 50 American charities are providing medical care, food, and other services to victims of last month’s earthquake in Indonesia, but their fund-raising efforts have thus far met with varied results. Save the Children, for example, has…
By BRENNEN JENSEN and Caroline Preston
New Leader Serves Up Change at James Beard Foundation
NEW ON THE JOBAs editor in chief of Family Circle, Susan Ungaro spent 11 years creating magazines that would appeal to millions of American women amid increasing competition for the time and attention of readers. In her new job as head of the James Beard Foundation, she faces another challenging…
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Government Leaders Issue Challenges to Grant Makers
By Suzanne Perry and Caroline Preston Grant makers need to do more to help rural areas, rebuild the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast, promote energy independence, be accountable for overseas spending, and prepare for a possible avian-flu pandemic, said speakers here last week at the annual meeting…
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91 Grant Makers Win Honors for Public-Information Materials
The Council on Foundations next week will honor 91 grant makers for outstanding materials designed to inform the public about their work. The 22nd annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications, named after the organization’s first executive director, will go to foundations that…
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Hurricane Donations Did Not Hurt Other Gifts, Study Finds
By Caroline PrestonThe donations that Americans channeled to hurricane relief have not reduced charitable giving to other causes, according to a new survey by the Conference Board, in New York. Nine out of ten Americans who donated to help people affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita said they…
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