One in Four Americans Volunteers, Report Says
About one in four Americans age 16 and older volunteer, according to a new report from the U.S. government. Those who volunteer spend a median of 52 hours per year on volunteer activities, meaning that about half of those who reported their volunteer hours spent more time than that on volunteering…
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An Energetic Duo Works to Persuade Peers to Drop their Weapons
When Emily Spencer and Shay Migl first met at Rosemont Middle School in Norfolk, Va., through an ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles afterschool program called Hands Without Guns, it was their differences that stood out. One was white, one was black; one…
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High-School Activist Seeks to Quell Video-Game Violence
When Danielle Shimotakahara heard that the two boys who had shot their classmates at Colorado’s ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles Columbine High School were avid players of violent video games, she believed their hobby had something to do with their…
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Florida Sisters Raise Big Money for a Food Bank
When the director of the Religious Community Services food pantry in Clearwater, Fla., ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles spoke at Margo and Katherine Sultenfuss’s church one Sunday in 2001, the two sisters learned that donations were lagging but demand…
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California Teenager Sends Aid to Africa
As an American child living in Zimbabwe, Alexandra Govere, now 15, says she tried to do what little ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles she could to help the many AIDS orphans who approached her on the streets. She especially remembers the time she gave a…
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Self-Employed Consultants: What Works and What Doesn’t
After spending 12 years raising money for two New Orleans nonprofit institutions, ALSO SEE:When Fund Raisers Go SoloMoonlighting Can Sharpen Skills and Raise Enthusiasm, Say Fund Raisers Mary Liz Keevers decided she had had enough when her daughter was born and her boss at a local university would…
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Moonlighting Can Sharpen Skills and Raise Enthusiasm, Say Fund Raisers
For John H. Taylor, moonlighting as a consultant while maintaining a full-time job has been a ALSO SEE:When Fund Raisers Go SoloSelf-Employed Consultants: What Works and What Doesn’t way to have the best of both worlds. Mr. Taylor, who specializes in helping fund-raising departments keep track of…
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$220-Million to Build College Pledged by Pizza Entrepreneur
Thomas S. Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, announced last week that he and his Ave Maria Foundation have pledged $220-million to create a Catholic university near Naples, Fla., and an additional $18-million for an interim campus. He said he and other investors would also spend $100-million…
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Habitat for Humanity Seeks to Build Bigger Donors
It took Habitat for Humanity International 26 years to build 100,000 houses for the poor, a goal the ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 results from 1998-2002The Tide TurnsDoing the Numbers: How The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 Was CompiledLutheran Services Seeks to Raise Profile, QuietlyFocus on…
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How ‘Charter’ Schools Are Run: a Primer
Charter schools are public schools that are free of many local and state regulations that govern traditional ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Lesson PlansCharter Program Aims to Teach Success to Hispanic Youngsters public institutions. But charter schools are held more accountable than conventional ones for…
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