Nike Head Halts Gifts to U. of Oregon Over Sweatshop Issue
The University of Oregon has lost a $30-million pledge from Philip H. Knight, chairman of Nike, because of the university’s decision to join an anti-sweatshop group that will monitor labor conditions in factories. Mr. Knight, a graduate of the university, has already given $50-million to the school…
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Health-Conversion Funds Hold $16-Billion in Assets
Foundations formed when non-profit hospitals and other health-care providers converted to for-profit status now hold more than $15.6-billion in assets, according to a new report. The foundations focus the great majority of their grants on health issues. ALSO SEE: Growth of Health-Care “Conversion”…
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Foundation Tax Forms Go Online
Copies of the informational tax returns filed by the nation’s approximately 56,000 private foundations are scheduled to go online this week. As part of its efforts to make financial information about non-profit organizations more accessible to the public, the organization Philanthropic Research and…
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Pennsylvania Sues Former Top Officials of Health Fund
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has sued former top officials of the Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation in an effort to recover nearly $80-million in charitable donations that the state says were spent improperly. Allegheny was the non-profit parent company of a chain of…
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Foundation Assets Rise Sharply in Southeast, but Giving Stays Relatively Low, Report Finds
Foundations in Southeastern states issued $2-billion worth of grants in 1997, an increase of 74 per cent over 1992, according to a new report by the Foundation Center. ALSO SEE:Big Southeastern Foundations Created in the 1980s and 1990sGrowth of Southeastern Foundations’ Assets Over the same…
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Accounting Issues Affect United Way Rankings
United Ways receive hundreds of millions annually in contributions earmarked by donors for specific charities. ALSO SEE:Philanthropy 400 charts and related stories But how to fairly account for those donations has been a subject of intense debate throughout the decade. In July, the Financial…
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9 in 10 Executives at Top Charities Are White, Chronicle Finds
Non-profit leaders have long urged employers to hire a diverse work force. ALSO SEE:Results of the Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives a non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles The faces inside the executive offices of…
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How The Chronicle Analyzed IRS Giving Data
Figuring out how residents of one state compare in generosity with those of another ALSO SEE:Residents of Utah Are the Most Generous of People Who Itemize is a complicated task because comprehensive data are not available. For its analysis, The Chronicle used data from the Internal Revenue…
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Residents of Utah Are the Most Generous of People Who Itemize
Americans who itemized deductions on their federal income-tax returns gave a little more than 3 per cent of their earnings to charity in 1997, ALSO SEE:Tax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by StateState Rankings of Charitable Deductions by Taxpayers With Incomes of $100,000 to $200,000State…
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Center Seeks to Develop Data Base on Giving
Frustrated by the scarcity of reliable data on charitable giving, the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy is leading an effort to create a national repository of information on such donations. Elizabeth T. Boris, director of the Washington center, said that currently the best…
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