Grant Makers Increased Giving by 8.2% Last Year, New Report Says
Grant makers in the United States awarded $40.7-billion in cash, corporate products, and other gifts last year, an increase of 8.2 percent from 2005 after inflation, according to new estimates released by the Foundation Center, a New York research group. Community foundations increased the amount…
By Noelle Barton
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Doris Duke Foundation Gives $100-Million to Help Slow Global Warming
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced last week that it plans to spend $100-million over the next five years to halt global warming, marking one of the biggest commitments by a single grant maker to that effort. But foundations are increasingly showing interest in the cause of climate…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Foundations Collaborate to Promote Easy Access to Fresh Food
The Lumpkin Family Foundation, in rural Illinois, wants to ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: What’s for Dinner?ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its Ambitions improve the local economy of the farm communities in…
By Debra E. Blum
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A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its Ambitions
Danilo Burgos, owner of a grocery and takeout store in West Philadelphia, wants to ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: What’s for Dinner?ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: Foundations Collaborate to Promote Easy Access to Fresh Food offer his customers the big juicy…
By Debra E. Blum
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Grant makers come to the table to support local foodJon M. Jensen of Cleveland’s George Gund Foundation has a theory ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its AmbitionsARTICLE: Foundations…
By Debra E. Blum
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Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
Following are the interest rates, provided by the Internal Revenue Service, for computing charitable deductions for charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, and some other deferred gifts. April 2007 5.6% March 5.8% February 5.6% January 5.6% December 2006 5.8% November…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital, improvements, and other needs
Advertising Council (New York): Appointed George Perlov, senior vice president, to be executive vice president of research and innovation. American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (Leawood, Kan.): Appointed Craig Doane, chief development officer at the National Kidney Foundation, based in…
The IRS is reminding small charities and other nonprofit organizations that, beginning next year, they will have to file information annually with the tax agency. Charities and other tax-exempt organizations that have income of $25,000 or less per year must file the electronic notice, known as the…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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