A Washington Teenager Gives Peace a Chance
Nickole M. Evans started volunteering at age 6, but her commitment to good works was shaped seven years ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles later, by an incident that she says left her bruised but emboldened. She and a friend were hurt, she recalls, when…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Nurturing Food — and Character
On a farm in suburban Massachusetts and in a Boston neighborhood known more for its problems than ALSO SEE:Photo Essay its potatoes, the Food Project is growing organic produce for people with little access to such bounty -- and giving youngsters an agrarian experience in the process. Half of the…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Two Fund Raisers in the House: What Couples Say Makes It Work –Â or Not
Bree E. Horwitz, 27, and Ann L. Rudy, 28 Many fund raisers can’t imagine being involved with someone with the same headaches, but ALSO SEE:Fund Raising From the Heart Bree E. Horwitz, director of development for a National Public Radio program called Living on Earth, says an easygoing attitude can…
By Elizabeth Greene
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‘Fast Company’: Planning for 25 Years
By Elizabeth Greene Planned Parenthood’s effort to develop a 25-year plan should be a model for nonprofit organizations, says Fast Company (February). The effort began in 1998, soon after Gloria Feldt became chief executive of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Ms. Feldt says she worried…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
‘New York’: a Major Arts Patron
By Elizabeth Greene Alberto Vilar has probably given more to support classical music than any other donor, but his gifts often come with demands for public acknowledgment and a role in helping to manage the nonprofit groups he supports, says New York magazine (January 21). The 61-year-old…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
‘Newsweek’: Giving by the Gateses
By Ian Wilhelm In a cover story on the philanthropy of Bill and Melinda Gates, Newsweek magazine (February 4) reports that the world’s wealthiest man is motivated to give largely by statistics about the problems of developing countries, while his wife is more responsive to problems she has seen in…
By Ian Wilhelm and Elizabeth Greene
By Nicole Wallace The innovators of the “New Philanthropy,” writes Time magazine (November 5), are people who “use Wall Street solutions to tackle urban poverty and expect a return on their investment.” The magazine features articles on donors and nonprofit executives who apply a hands-on,…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Elizabeth Greene
‘Worth’: Relief Effort by Salvation Army
By Elizabeth Greene In the name of God, Salvation Army officers have offered unwavering comfort to rescue workers at the site of the September 11 attacks in New York, reports Worth magazine (November). While it has not raised nearly as much money since the attacks as the American Red Cross, with…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Elizabeth Greene
‘Smart Money’: Helping Attack Victims
By Elizabeth Greene Running from downtown Manhattan on September 11 to escape the buildings collapsing a few blocks from her public-relations firm, Dana Victoria Sophia thought about the children who were suddenly left without one of their parents, recounts Smart Money magazine (December). Within…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Elizabeth Greene
‘W’: Gala Balls Aiming at the Young
Wealthy people under 35 are enjoying increasing influence over charity galas in New York, reports W, a fashion magazine (September). Charities have turned to such people in part because many of the paper millionaires and corporations they courted in the 1990s have been caught in the clutches of the…
By Elizabeth Greene
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