Lack of Money Forces Federal Service Program to Suspend Application Process
Interest in joining AmeriCorps was so robust last year that the program has suspended the enrollment of new volunteers until Congress releases enough money to cover the additional people. The problem was compounded by imprecision in the federal government’s procedure for monitoring the enrollment…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Prospective Grantees Take Foundation to Court and Ask for $1.25-Million
In a rare public display of grantee frustration with grant-maker behavior, farm workers in an ALSO SEE:Terror’s Fallout agricultural Washington county are suing the Northwest Area Foundation for $1.25-million, charging that the grant maker reneged on a promised antipoverty grant. Disenchanted…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Disenchanted Donor Seeks Return of $1.6-Million Gift
Six years ago, Paul F. Glenn donated $1.6-million to the University of Southern California, hoping ALSO SEE:Seeking Control in Court to underwrite biological research that would help unlock the secrets of the aging process. Last year, he sued the university, asking that his money be transferred to…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Disgruntled donors sue over use of their giftsThe question of how much influence donors or their families can exercise over their donations after the gifts ALSO SEE:Disenchanted Donor Seeks Return of $1.6-Million Gift have been made lies at the heart of a handful of high-profile lawsuits now…
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‘Genius’ grant raises hopes for earthquake-safety leaderBrian E. Tucker, one of 24 MacArthur Fellows named last month, traces his career path back to 1970, when a chance nocturnal encounter in a women’s bathroom at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in La Jolla, Calif., shook up his plans. Mr.…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Belt-Tightening at Two Foundations Puts the Squeeze on Charities
Plummeting stock values not only have left many foundations with less money to give away, but in some cases have prompted them to trim their staffs and narrow their grant making as well. As a result, many of their longtime grantees are scrambling to find new sources of support. The precipitous…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Gifts to Community Foundations Decline, but Grants Are on the Rise
As the economy faltered and stock values plunged last year, gifts to community foundations ALSO SEE:Community Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in 2001 fell 15 percent compared with 2000 and community-foundation assets dipped for the first time in a decade, according to a survey by the…
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Charities missed opportunities to win confidence, experts sayAfter the massive outpouring of $2.3-billion to charities helping to heal the damage of September 11, ALSO SEE:Learning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith…
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Head of Humanics Group Wants to Spread ‘Best Kept Secret’
Kala M. Stroup has spent her career in academic circles, as professor, dean, college president, and, currently, Missouri’s commissioner of higher education. Her next challenge also involves education of a sort -- informing the American nonprofit world about the little-known organization that she…
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Foundations start new efforts to share advice about their craftFor Yodon Thonden, who runs a small New York foundation established by her husband, a trip ALSO SEE:Helping Charities: Advice From Ford to South Africa in April provided an interesting exercise in grant-making dynamics. She and eight…
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