Postal Service Seeks Increase of Up to 15% in Rates for Charity Mailings
The Postal Service has announced that it hopes to increase postage rates for charities early next year. The increase, part of a plan to raise rates for all mailers, ALSO SEE:Proposed Rates for Standard Non-Profit MailProposed Rates for Periodical Non-Profit Mail must still be approved by the Postal…
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On-Line Promotions Tailored to Charities
During the holidays, charities raised hundreds of thousands of dollars on line ALSO SEE:Making Sure That the Clicks StickSeeking Donations on the Internet: a Sampling of Resources through Internet promotions that companies designed especially for them. Last month, Venture Frogs, an Internet…
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Making Sure That the Clicks Stick
On-line holiday giving causes cheer, but keeping new donors is a challenge Even though the holidays are long gone, ALSO SEE:On-Line Promotions Tailored to CharitiesSeeking Donations on the Internet: a Sampling of Resources Maj. Bill Grein of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation says it still feels…
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Kansas City Community Fund Adopts a Customer-Service Approach
Janice C. Kreamer has spent most of the past decade preparing for the 21st century. ALSO SEE:A SPECIAL REPORT on philanthropy at the millennium: looking ahead and looking back. As president of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, she started revamping the fund eight years ago so it would…
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Postal Service Seeks Increase in Charity Rates
Washington The Postal Service announced today that it hopes to increase postage rates for charities early next year. The average rise would be 5.6 per cent for charities’ letters, but some groups could see the cost of sending certain types of direct-mail pieces such as magazines rise by as much as…
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Cultivating Philanthropy by Women
Female donors now have the means, but they’re still not as willing as men to part with their money This month the Milwaukee Women’s Fund will broaden its fund-raising appeals to reach a new constituency: female babies. Its Little Women’s Fund will seek gifts of $1,000 or more to be made in an…
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What Donors Can Do to Avoid the Pitfalls of Shared Giving
More and more donors are getting together to pool their money and decide how to give it away. However, such “team giving” groups can be hard to organize and maintain. ALSO SEE:Getting Together to Give Even those that have started with the help of an established group, like a community foundation or…
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Tired of simply responding to fund-raising appeals, donors join forces to find worthy causes Every Friday night for the past 25 years, a group of Jewish couples in Norwalk, Conn., has gathered to share the Sabbath in each other’s homes. ALSO SEE:What Donors Can Do to Avoid the Pitfalls of Shared…
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Top Donors Dominate Big Educational Capital Campaigns
A greater and greater share of the money raised in capital campaigns by colleges, ALSO SEE:Percentage of Gifts Made by Top Donors in Educational Campaigns universities, and private schools is coming from those organizations’ top donors, a new study has found. Among 171 educational institutions…
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Software Deal Goes Sour for United Way
United Way of America has spent $12-million on a new charitable-pledge software system that is so riddled with errors it had to be scrapped. The charity hired Cap Gemini America, a subsidiary of a $4.4-billion information-technology company based in France, to design the software in 1997. But a…
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