Few Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots Organizations
As non-profit organizations seek growing influence in Japanese society, ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social FabricProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring That They Are HeardCenter Offers Nagoya Citizens a Desk, a Phone -- and…
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Activists on the Move in Japan
New law helps citizens’ groups win acceptance they’ve long craved The 700 or so participants at a recent non-profit conference here did not act much like revolutionaries ALSO SEE:Few Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents…
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Two Publications Question Foundation Benefits
As the assets of American foundations have ballooned in recent years to more than $330-billion, the social value that the funds provide has not kept pace, argue the authors of separate articles in two publications. “Does the good that foundations do justify society’s investment in them?” asks…
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Charities Win Marketing Awards
Four fund-raising appeals by World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization that operates in more than 100 countries, dominated the honors won by charities in the 70th Annual International Echo Awards competition sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association, in New York. Charities garnered…
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Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds
Americans are volunteering in record numbers, a new survey ALSO SEE:Who Donated Time and Money, 1993-98Household Giving to CharityComparisons of People Who Itemize Tax Deductions and Those Who Do NotViews on Charitable Organizations reports, although their charitable contributions have dipped…
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A Call for Cooperation in Behalf of the Powerless
Philanthropy and business must form a bold new alliance to combat world poverty, international assembly is told Improving the lives of the world’s poor and powerless in the next millennium will require creative collaboration between voluntary organizations and businesses, several speakers told an…
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Global Study Finds High Rate of Volunteerism
Around the world, more than one person in four donates time to non-profit organizations, ALSO SEE:Charting the Voluntary World according to a new study of non-profit activities in nearly two dozen countries. The aggregate work of such volunteers, in fact, adds the equivalent of 10.6 million…
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Congressional Panel Urges Stiffer Penalties for Trusts
Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation is recommending that lawmakers both clarify the law and stiffen the penalties applying to charitable remainder trusts that fail to file annual informational returns. The suggestion is contained in a report issued by the Joint Committee, which reviewed penalty…
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Use of Tax-Exempt Bonds on Rise at Non-Profit Groups, Report Says
Foundations, museums, and other non-profit institutions are increasingly using tax-exempt bonds to finance major capital improvements, according to a new report by Standard & Poor’s. The reason: Organizations with a strong financial base (and therefore eligible for favorable bond ratings, which…
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One-Third of Donated Medicine Found to be Useless, Study Finds
Nearly one-third of the medicines donated by U.S. pharmaceutical companies to relief agencies for use in poor countries are too old or inappropriate to be of much help, a new study has found. About 70 per cent of such products given through two large charities from 1994 to 1997 did meet World…
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