Economic slump forces businesses to be more selectiveCharitable giving by many of the nation’s wealthiest companies declined last year after spiking in 2001, ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving at 92 Major CorporationsHow The Chronicle’s Survey of Giving by Big Companies Was CompiledBoycott Dooms Novel…
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Government cuts, financial woes could cause many groups to foldInterCommunity Caregivers, in Denver, started in 1997 with a promising future, a $25,000 grant ALSO SEE:Special Report: Charities and the EconomyA Dwindling AmeriCorpsGRAPHS: How Giving Fared During Hard Times from the Robert Wood…
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Head of YWCA Focuses on Group’s Mission, Not on Criticism
After only a few weeks on the job, the new chief executive of the YWCA of the USA, Patricia Ireland, has already achieved one of her goals: raising the profile of the 145-year-old organization and its 313 local affiliates. But the attention the group is receiving is not the kind she had sought. The…
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Former Congressman to Fight Foundation Bill
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New Tax-Cut Law Could Discourage Giving
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Study: Foundations Shortchanging Charities
If a legislative proposal to increase foundation grant making had been in effect in 2001, it would have generated more than $4-billion more for charity, according to an analysis by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog group that supports the legislation. Under current law,…
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Senators Question Nature Conservancy About Land Donations and Other Issues
A key member of the Senate committee that oversees nonprofit groups is considering whether new tax legislation might be needed to prevent financial arrangements such as the ones previously offered by the Nature Conservancy. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that the Arlington, Va.,…
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Pressing Foundations to Give More
Controversial proposal could produce millions for charityA controversial legislative proposal to increase charitable contributions from foundations could have ALSO SEE: Congress Considers Easing Rules on Foundation Stock Holdings What the 25 Wealthiest Private Foundations Spent in 2001 generated…
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‘Business Week’: Gates and Biology
Bill Gates’s avid interest in biology has informed both his investment strategy and his philanthropy, says Business Week (May 5). “My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases,” Mr. Gates told the…
By Ian Wilhelm and Stephen G. Greene
‘Harvard Business Review’: $100-Billion for Charity
If nonprofit groups took aggressive action to reduce their inefficiencies and cut costs, among other things, they could generate more than $100-billion a year in extra dollars for their charitable programs, says McKinsey & Company, a management-consulting company, in an article in the Harvard…
By Ian Wilhelm and Stephen G. Greene