Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public Parks
Michael McCormick learned about responsibility during his 42-year career printing Cleveland’s ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In Need of Help, Medical Center Offers…
By Debra E. Blum
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Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report Says
By Suzanne Perry Nonprofit groups lag significantly behind government agencies and businesses in their efforts to keep and ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Later Life Is Ripe for Reinvention, Nonprofit Leader Asserts in New Book
Marc Freedman has emerged over ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In Need of Help, Medical…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Research Sabbatical Gives Charity Leaders Time to Pursue Fresh Ideas
Julian Huerta can’t imagine taking months off from his job at Foundation Communities, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Postcards From the EdgeARTICLE: Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit Leaders an Austin, Tex., charity that develops low-cost housing and provides services to homeless…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit Leaders
Following are organizations that provide sabbatical aid to nonprofit leaders The Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program, in Baltimore, supports sabbaticals for longtime activists ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Postcards From the EdgeARTICLE: Research Sabbatical Gives Charity Leaders Time to Pursue Fresh Ideas…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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Paid sabbaticals help frazzled nonprofit workers — and their organizations — regroupOn a three-month sabbatical from her position as head of an environmental organization, Diane Takvorian ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit LeadersARTICLE: Research…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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A Big Makeover Coming for Charity Tax Form
Nonprofit groups may soon be required to provide the IRS with details on governance and managementWhen nonprofit officials and advisers get their first peek, expected this week, at the Internal ALSO SEE: ARTICLE: New Tax Form: Key Changes the IRS May Make Revenue Service’s overhaul of the primary…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Cornell University and Kenyon College Each Win $25-Million; Other New Gifts
Six institutions have received big gifts: Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., has received $25-million from Peter Meinig, chief executive officer of HM International, a management and holding company in Tulsa, Okla., his wife, Nancy, and their family, to support faculty awards in life-sciences…
By Anne W. Howard
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Three Universities Receive $100-Million Apiece
Three universities have announced that they received gifts of $100-million apiece: Thomas M. Siebel, chairman of First Virtual Group, a holding company in Palo Alto, Calif., has pledged to give the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign $100-million to endow science and engineering research,…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Charities will probably soon receive a temporary discount on mail pieces known as “flats,” which are larger than letters, under a recommendation made by a key Postal Service body. The Postal Regulatory Commission’s recommended discounts — 2 cents off the new postage rates for each flat — could be…
By Holly Hall
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