Innovation –Â and a Personal Touch –Â Get Priority at New Charities
The hundreds of thousands of charities created in the past decade cater to a vast array of social needs. ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity BoomPhoto Essay But most of the groups have at least one thing in common: founders who are passionate about their desire to pioneer new approaches and…
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U.S. Postal Service Expected to Seek Big Increase in Rates
By Holly Hall Charities are bracing for a battle over the size of the next postal-rate increase, which is expected to be proposed early next year and take effect in 2006. Nonprofit postage rates could increase from 6 percent to 18 percent, on average. Whether charities will see single- or…
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Big charities cautiously optimistic as donations rise 2.3%This article was reported by Holly Hall, Leah Kerkman, Cassie J. Moore, Nicole Wallace, and Brad Wolverton. Giving to the nation’s 400 most-successful fund-raising groups rose by a ALSO SEE: DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400…
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Personal Gains Can Mean Losses for Charity
Charity fund raisers are not the only ones who sometimes benefit personally from relationships with ALSO SEE:When Gifts Get PersonalSteps Charities Can Take to Discourage Personal Gifts to Fund RaisersGifts to Fund Raisers Touch Off Debate wealthy donors. Often financial advisers and others reap…
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Gifts to Fund Raisers Touch Off Debate
A fund raiser’s job is to develop close relationships with wealthy donors and motivate them to give to charity. But ALSO SEE:When Gifts Get PersonalSteps Charities Can Take to Discourage Personal Gifts to Fund RaisersPersonal Gains Can Mean Losses for Charity sometimes donors become just as…
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Steps Charities Can Take to Discourage Personal Gifts to Fund Raisers
Emil Kallina, a Baltimore lawyer, says he has encountered situations at three charities where fund ALSO SEE:When Gifts Get PersonalGifts to Fund Raisers Touch Off DebatePersonal Gains Can Mean Losses for Charity raisers were named to receive large sums of money in donors’ wills. The charities were…
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Nonprofit groups seek to clarify ethical standards for fund raisersMsgr. John G. Woolsey, 67, spent years raising money for the Roman Catholic congregation he served. But now he ALSO SEE:Steps Charities Can Take to Discourage Personal Gifts to Fund RaisersGifts to Fund Raisers Touch Off…
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To recruit donors, charities revamp mailings; try new tacticsFor more than a decade, the American Heart Association’s efforts to attract new donors through direct mail ALSO SEE:Charities Urged to Stop ‘Crass and Irrelevant’ Appeals were on a roll. Every year, the association, which runs one of the…
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Fund Raisers See Improved Giving Climate
Fund raisers believe improvements in the economy and other factors that influence giving are making it far easier to raise money now than it was a year ago, according to a national survey of 177 fund raisers and 26 fund-raising consultants. The “Philanthropic Giving Index,” as the survey is known,…
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