One Volunteer’s African Journey
Kelsi Stine, a student at Tufts University, is embarking on an international adventure this summer, spending a month volunteering with Population Caring Organization at a Ghanaian refugee camp that serves 38,000 Liberians displaced by their homeland’s civil war. Ms. Stine is writing about her…
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Gates Foundation Under Fire for Owning Berkshire Stock
Gates Foundation under fire for owning Berkshire stock
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‘Portfolio’: Cultural Patronage
As competition to attract donors intensifies, many arts groups are increasingly offering patrons an opportunity to support particular artists, says Portfolio magazine (May). “For some wealthy donors, it is no longer enough to see one’s name in the program or even etched into the wall of a symphony…
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‘Weekly Standard’: Growth of Charities
While both liberal and conservative idealogues have declared the surge in the size and wealth of the nonprofit world in the last 30 years a threat to aspects of American society, such fears are overblown, says Gerard Alexander in The Weekly Standard (April 23). In his article for the conservative…
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Humanitarian Groups Struggle With Challenges of Providing Aid
International aid groups have helped persuade the U.S. government that fighting global poverty should be considered a top foreign-policy goal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told nonprofit organizations gathered here. This year the State Department made “reducing widespread poverty” one of the…
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12 Star Athletes Start Sports Charity
The cyclist Lance Armstrong, the tennis player Andre Agassi, and 10 other sports stars announced last week that they have formed a new charity to educate professional athletes, sports fans, and others in the importance of philanthropy. The group, known as Athletes for Hope, plans to encourage…
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Why hasn’t fund raising taken off in Latin America?
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Should politicians be judged by their philanthropy?
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12 Athletes Start New Effort to Promote Philanthropy
The cyclist Lance Armstrong, the tennis player Andre Agassi, and 10 other sports stars announced ALSO SEE:ArmstrongAgassiHawk today that they have formed a new charity to educate professional athletes, sports fans, and others on the importance of philanthropy. The group, known as Athletes for Hope,…
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