New study of salaries at 75,000 charities finds big disparities based on employee’s gender, group’s size and typeSenior female executives at the nation’s nonprofit organizations are routinely paid less than men in similar jobs, according to a new study by GuideStar, a Web site that distributes…
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Survey Finds Rapid Rise in Assets and Grants of Donor-Advised Funds
Assets at many of the nation’s largest donor-advised funds grew to $10.2-billion last year, and the funds made $1.4-billion in grants to charitable groups, according to a Chronicle survey. ALSO SEE:Donor-Advised Funds: Assets, Awards, and Accounts at a Sampling of Big Providers The figures reflect…
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Religious groups already receive billions in federal aid, analysis findsSupporters of the Bush administration’s proposal to funnel millions of dollars in federal money to faith-based groups hail it as a revolutionary way to deliver social services. But the idea is more an extension of existing…
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Religious Leaders Assail Bush Plan to Aid Faith Groups
By LAURA HRUBY and HARVY LIPMANA broad alliance of clergy members who oppose the Bush administration’s proposal to give more federal money to faith-based groups said last week that the plan would allow such groups to discriminate in their hiring practices and would invite government intrusion into…
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Multiple Sclerosis Association Settles Lawsuit Filed by N.J.
By HARVY LIPMANThe Multiple Sclerosis Association of America and two of its former officers have agreed to pay the state of New Jersey $225,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general’s Division of Consumer Affairs. The attorney general had accused the association, its founder and…
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California Provides Data on Electronic Drives
By HARVY LIPMANCalifornia’s annual report on commercial solicitors for the first time this year provides information on Internet fund-raising campaigns. The report lists 66 online campaigns, all conducted by Charitableway, an Internet fund-raising company, in San Carlos, Calif., that recently…
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Charity’s Founder Learns the Hard Way About Perils of Unscrupulous Solicitors
By HARVY LIPMANFor the first two years after she founded the Nation’s Missing Children ALSO SEE:Calling Solicitors to AccountHow Commercial Solicitors Rank on the Amount of Income Provided to CharityHow the Fund-Raising Companies Were RankedFor Small Charities, the Options Are Few and the Risks Are…
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Experts Offer Tips for Charities on Hiring a Commercial Fund Raiser
By HARVY LIPMANHow can a nonprofit organization make sure that the commercial ALSO SEE:Calling Solicitors to AccountHow Commercial Solicitors Rank on the Amount of Income Provided to CharityHow the Fund-Raising Companies Were RankedFor Small Charities, the Options Are Few and the Risks Are…
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Winning Back Lapsed Donors: When Breaking Even Pays
By HARVY LIPMANFrom 1995 to 1999, Harris O’Malley Marketing, in Woodland Hills, Calif., ran ALSO SEE:Calling Solicitors to AccountHow Commercial Solicitors Rank on the Amount of Income Provided to CharityHow the Fund-Raising Companies Were RankedFor Small Charities, the Options Are Few and the…
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Government Regulation of Fund Raisers: Far Trickier Than It Seems
By HARVY LIPMANIn recent years, state regulators and the Federal Trade Commission have intensified ALSO SEE:Calling Solicitors to AccountHow Commercial Solicitors Rank on the Amount of Income Provided to CharityHow the Fund-Raising Companies Were RankedFor Small Charities, the Options Are Few and…
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