‘Poetry Was Meant for the People’: a Mission for the ‘90s
To promote his charitable work, Andrew Carroll has crossed the country and set up shop in places as diverse as a maximum-security prison, a 24-hour Las Vegas wedding chapel, a highway toll booth, and Elvis’s “Graceland” estate. ALSO SEE:Information on the American Poetry & Literacy ProjectHow the…
By Susan Gray
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‘Harvard Business Review’: Entrepreneurial Pitfalls
Many pitfalls await the growing number of non-profit organizations now seeking commercial revenue, warns an article in the Harvard Business Review (January-February). Rising costs and increased competition for philanthropic support are prompting many such groups to behave more like for-profit…
‘The New Republic’: Turner’s Problematic Gift
Ted Turner’s gift to the United Nations will finance many worthy causes but also sets a disturbing precedent, says The New Republic (January 26). Under the United Nations Charter, the 185 member nations of the U.N. General Assembly should bear the full cost of U.N. activities to maintain world…
‘Fortune’: a Ranking of 1997’s Top Donors
With his $1-billion pledge to the United Nations, Ted Turner topped Fortune magazine’s (February 2) list of the country’s most-generous philanthropists in 1997. The second annual ranking includes 40 donors, up from the 25 it named a year ago. The magazine said it decided to increase the size of its…
Robust economy proves to be a boon for most, but rise in demand squeezes human-services groups The Salvation Army last year raised more than $1-billion -- far outpacing any other charity in America, according to the Philanthropy 400, The Chronicle’s annual ranking of organizations that receive the…
By Marilyn Dickey, Holly Hall, Dan Morris and Susan Gray