Census Struggles to Get Accurate Count of a Key Group: Charity Workers
In the 1990 Census, some 1.1 million Latinos weren’t counted. ALSO SEE:Counting on Charities Some 2 million children were missed. And, researchers say, some 1.6 million non-profit workers were overlooked as well. While many charities have been working to insure that the people they serve aren’t…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Census Bureau uses non-profit help to recruit workers, promote tally Kenneth Prewitt has spent much of his life in the philanthropic world -- ALSO SEE:Census Struggles to Get Accurate Count of a Key Group: Charity Workers both as a grant maker at the Rockefeller Foundation and as the leader of…
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Charity Standards Under Review
The Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service has appointed a committee to recommend ways to revise the 23 standards it uses to evaluate the financial-management, fund-raising, governance, and public-disclosure practices of charities. The watchdog group first issued its…
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New Internet Focus Reaffirms Markle’s Commitment to Mass Communications
In 1969, when Lloyd Morrisett took the helm of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, he decided it was time to steer it in a new direction: ALSO SEE:Taming the New FrontierGrants Reflect Fund’s New Focus on TechnologyThe John and Mary R. Markle Foundation at a Glance Television and other mass…
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Markle to focus most of its resources on information-technology issues From Zoë Baird’s office 18 floors above the bustling international business and media capital that is Manhattan’s Rockefeller Plaza, ALSO SEE:New Internet Focus Reaffirms Markle’s Commitment to Mass CommunicationsGrants Reflect…
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‘Worth’: Monkey Business in a Charitable Bequest
Curious George is always getting into trouble. Except this time it’s the Curious George Foundation immersed in monkey business, according to Worth magazine (July-August). And the mess has been far harder to clean up than those created by the perky primate of storybook fame. The magazine relates the…
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Aided by a Rise in Gifts, Non-Profit Theaters Had a Healthy Financial Run, Study Shows
A new survey has found that a majority of non-profit theaters broke even or came out ahead in 1998. Theaters saw an 11.6-per-cent rise in income last year, while expenses grew 9 per cent. The Theatre Communications Group, a New York organization that represents non-profit theaters, ALSO…
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Federal Judge Orders New York City to Restore Financing to Museum
A federal judge has temporarily ordered New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the city government to continue providing city support to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Last month, Mr. Giuliani stopped the city’s regular monthly payment to the museum because he objected to a controversial art…
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Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping Kids
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, one of the nation’s 30 largest foundations, was created by a Seattle man ALSO SEE:Casey Goes to Bat for FamiliesWhere the Casey Foundation Will Focus Its New Programs who dropped out of school and started a courier service to support his family. Of course, it didn’t…
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Casey Goes to Bat for Families
The Baltimore grant maker begins a bold effort to fight urban poverty Like many industrial cities, Philadelphia had been on the decline for decades, hemorrhaging jobs and population to its suburbs since World War II. ALSO SEE:Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping…
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