Report Criticizes Environmental Protection Agency Grants to Non-Profit Organizations
Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group based in Washington, has fired its latest salvo at government spending: a report on Environmental Protection Agency grants to non-profit groups. The report, called “Phony Philanthropy: How Government Grants are Subverting the Missions of Nonprofit…
By Debra E. Blum
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Giving by Rich Rises to 8% of Income
The wealthiest Americans gave, on average, 8 per cent of their after-tax income to charity last year, according to a new study. That’s up from an average of 5 per cent in 1993, the study found. ALSO SEE:Giving and Volunteering by the Nation’s Wealthy Most of the people surveyed for the study said…
By Debra E. Blum
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Critics Say Charitable Assets Were Lost in Pennsyvania Hospital Deal
Tenet Healthcare, a California company that owns hospitals around the country, will transfer an estimated $190-million to two new charities as part of a deal to buy a bankrupt chain of non-profit hospitals. But critics of the deal say that the hospitals -- formerly owned by the Allegheny Health…
By Debra E. Blum
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Federal Agency and 10 States Act to Curb Deceptive Charity Telephone Appeals
Ten states have filed a total of 34 legal actions in recent weeks in cases involving deceptive charity appeals by professional solicitors. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission has filed five federal lawsuits alleging deceptive practices by telemarketers. The actions were announced last week as…
By Debra E. Blum
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Salaries Rise Modestly at Charities
Officials at biggest groups see gains that just beat inflation, survey finds Pay raises for top executives at many of the nation’s largest non-profit organizations barely outpaced inflation last year, according to The Chronicle’s seventh annual compensation survey. The survey of 230 charities,…
By Debra E. Blum
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Charitable deductions increased 11 per cent nationwide in 1996 As Americans are moving west, so is their philanthropy, a Chronicle analysis of new Internal Revenue Service data finds. From 1992 to 1996, the total amount of charitable deductions claimed by taxpayers in 13 Western states climbed by…
By Debra E. Blum
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‘American Demographics’: Finding Wealthy Donors
The most generous donors to charity do not necessarily live in the wealthiest neighborhoods, says an article by a non-profit researcher in American Demographics (August), a business magazine that tracks consumer trends. By comparing giving data from the United Way with estimates of charitable…
‘Wild Earth’ Magazine: Saving Untamed Places
Private donations in the past century have helped shield from development more than 100 million acres in the United States as national parks or wilderness areas -- and such action is needed now more than ever, says Wild Earth (Summer) in a collection of articles on what it calls “wildlands…
How Survey of Charitable Giving by Major U.S. Companies Was Conducted
The Chronicle’s corporate-giving survey is based on financial information provided by many of the nation’s top companies as ranked according to their annual revenue by Fortune magazine. A total of 150 companies were asked to provide figures on their charitable giving for 1996, 1997, and 1998. In…
By Debra E. Blum
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Companies Divided Over Philanthropy’s Impact on Profits
Corporate-giving officers are sharply divided over whether it makes any difference to a business’s bottom line if a company gives to charity. In a Chronicle survey of the largest U.S. companies -- based on revenue rankings by Fortune magazine -- corporate officials were asked to rate their…