Pay of Chief College Fund Raisers Is Up 2.5%
The median pay for chief development officers at colleges and universities rose 2.5 per cent last year, to $80,000, according to a new report by the College and University Personnel Association. But for those who served as both chief development and public-relations officers at undergraduate…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Goodwill Looting: California Scam Yields Lessons for Charity Managers
Big-time embezzlement and fraud at a well-known charity. Millions of dollars in cash stashed in office drawers, closets, and secret accounts. Family ties forged in poverty, tempered by crime, and sundered by revelations made during a bitter divorce. Money laundering. Suicide. It sounds like a…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Philanthropy Magazine Faces Some Questions — and a New Competitor
When donors first began receiving The American Benefactor magazine a year or so ago, many charity executives hailed the philanthropy quarterly as an innovative tool that could give them an edge in fund raising. Distributed through charities, which buy subscriptions as gifts to donors, the magazine…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Putting Faith in a Trust Company
Presbyterian fund-raising charity creates for-profit subsidiary to manage assets and perform a range of financial services Few charities have been as successful at raising and managing money for religious causes as the 199-year-old Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation. With $1.5-billion in assets…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Salary Raises at Foundations Keep Pace With Past Years
Salaries at U.S. foundations grew on average by 5 per cent this year -- the same rate as in the previous three years, the Council on Foundations says in a new report. According to the council’s latest compensation survey, the average salary increase among corporate grant makers was 4 per cent, also…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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2 Research Projects Aim to Provide Detailed Picture of Non-Profit Organizations
Researchers are conducting countless studies, both big and small, around the nation and world to chart the dimensions of non-profit activity and its effects on public policy and social welfare. Two of the hottest projects promise to yield important new information about the breadth and impact of…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Research on Charities Falls Short
Leaders of non-profit groups point to work they can’t use Mary Jo Buchanan, who runs a New Jersey charity that provides social services to the poor, is searching for ways to cope with new trends that could revolutionize how her organization operates. Ms. Buchanan, executive director of Family…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Charity Regulators Brace for Cuts in Staff
The I.R.S., already strapped for resources to monitor tax-exempt groups, could find itself stretched even thinner in coming years. Marc Owens, director of the agency’s Exempt Organizations Division, said government projections call for a 20-per-cent cut in total I.R.S. staff levels through 2002,…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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IRS Rulings on Politics Stir Controversy
A small number of non-profit groups have found a controversial way to get around the strict limitations on electioneering that the federal government places on charities and advocacy organizations. The organizations are relying on a pair of Internal Revenue Service rulings (Letter rulings 9725036…
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Deterioration of Church Facilities Said to Endanger Social Services
The physical deterioration of churches and synagogues could imperil many important social-services programs -- just at a time when governments are shifting many of their social-welfare duties to religious organizations, says a new report. The report, “Sacred Places at Risk,” was based on a study of…
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