Colleges and universities offer new programs to help clerical leaders gain management skillsNo matter what their faith, leaders of religious organizations often find themselves managing dozens ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Advancing Nonprofit CareersARTICLE: Does Continuing Education Matter? What Headhunters…
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Charity Ads Are Broadcast During Key Times, Study Finds
By Sam KeanMany charity advertisements play during key viewing and listening hours, a study by West Glen Communications, in New York, found. Only 32 percent of 120,048 television charity ads and 40 percent of 9,478 radio charity ads tracked in the study ran during the dead hours of the night. Even…
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Son airs misgivings as widow of tabloid pioneer seeks to raise millions for disabled-veterans memorialLois Pope, known as the widow of the man who built the National Enquirer into one of the nation’s most famous tabloids, wants to be known as the prime mover behind the planned American Veterans…
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Environmental Site Offers Donors ‘Stock’ Option
Reduce, reuse, recycle — and, now, retire. The Clean Air Conservancy plans to add a fourth R to the familiar three by allowing people to purchase “carbon credits” — stocks that regulate how much carbon dioxide companies emit — and donate them to a charitable fund that holds the stocks, essentially…
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Bits: ‘Bridging the Innovation Divide’ Chronicles Charities’ Technological Efforts
PolicyLink and BCT Partners have released a report on charities that have been quick to adopt new technology. “Bridging the Innovation Divide” examines problems the 12 groups that are described in the report have faced and offers advice for integrating technology into a charity’s operations. For…
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Kintera Removes Founder From CEO Position
Until just over a month ago, Harry E. Gruber was both president and chief executive officer of the fund-raising software company he founded, Kintera. But the man who replaced him as president of the struggling company in February, Richard N. LaBarbera, will take over as CEO as well, Kintera has…
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Charity Feature Added to Microsoft Chat Software
Money talks, and for nine major nonprofit organizations, talk is now money. Microsoft has unveiled a feature on its instant-messaging service that allows people to support a charity with minimal effort. Users of the software can type the name of one of nine nonprofit groups into a text box, causing…
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Tested by Hurricane Katrina, a three-digit hotline for charities gains momentumMany charities are still emerging from their post-Hurricane Katrina phase, but enough time has passed that they can look back to evaluate which disaster-response programs succeeded ALSO SEE: MAP: Where the 211 System for…
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Advice for Charities Seeking to Apply for Special Stamp Cancellations
Nonprofit groups of all types and sizes can promote their causes by asking the United States Postal Service to turn their ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: First-Class Service names and logos into “special cancellations,” ink designs used to cancel stamps on first-class mail. The American Philatelic Society, which…
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Stamp cancellations deliver a free plug for charities and, sometimes, a sticky situation United Way of America sent one billion advertisements to people across the country last fall, and it didn’t cost the charity a cent. The United States Postal Service cancels the stamps on all first-class…
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