How The Chronicle Compiled Its Online-Giving Survey
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 10th annual survey of online fund raising examined data provided by 239 of the biggest nonprofit organizations in the United States. The newspaper requested data on online giving from charities listed in the 2008 edition of its Philanthropy 400, which ranks the…
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Decline in Giving Expected to Follow Drop of $150-Billion in Foundation Assets in 2008
The nation’s grant makers lost $150-billion in assets last year, a figure comparable to their total giving over the last four years, according to a study released last week. The report, by the Foundation Center, in New York, examined giving by private, corporate, and community foundations. Total…
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How The Chronicle Conducted Its Survey of America’s Largest Grant Makers
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual survey of the nation’s largest private foundations is based on information from 187 grant makers. Much of the information in the survey was compiled from a Chronicle questionnaire, completed by 112 of those foundations. Data on the other foundations come from…
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Emily Rauh Pulitzer has a feeling her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., would have approved of her decision to give 31 works of art from the couple’s private collection to the Harvard Art Museum last fall. After all, he had been an avid art collector and had made scores of such donations to his…
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Many Foundations Have Lost Almost One-Third of Their Assets, Chronicle Study Finds
Big foundations saw 30% slide in assets, Chronicle survey finds
Enlisting Blog Readers to Support Good Causes
Enlisting blog readers to support good causes
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(Photograph by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) It started with a simple pair of canvas tennis shoes that an American missionary gave to a 9-year-old Nigerian boy in the early 1970s. As luck would have it, they fit. More than 30 years later, that boy had become a software executive in…
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D.C. Art Institutions Face Problems
Arts groups in nation’s capital face challenges
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How The Chronicle Compiled This Year’s Philanthropy 400 Survey
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual Philanthropy 400, now in its 18th year, ranks nonprofit organizations based on the amount of money the groups raised in the previous year from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Charities are allowed to count cash and other gifts such as stock, real…
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How The Chronicle Compiled Its Annual Survey of Compensation
By Noelle BartonThe Chronicle’s 16th annual salary survey provides compensation information for top officials at 291 charities and foundations in the United States. Many organizations included in the report were among the organizations on last year’s Philanthropy 400, The Chronicle’s annual list of…
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