Survey Tracks Sources of Charity Technology Help
By Nicole WallaceMost organizations that provide technology assistance to charities are small, for-profit enterprises, according to a new survey. Of the 149 technology-assistance groups surveyed, 65 were for-profit businesses and 54 were self-employed consultants. The remaining 20 respondents were…
Researchers to Develop Medical Tools for Patients
By Nicole WallaceProject HealthDesign, a partnership between two foundations, has awarded $300,000 in research grants to encourage the development of new tools to help patients. The grants, which have been distributed to nine teams of researchers, will build on technology that has been devised by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Sponsorships Could Cut Waste in Charity World
The number of charities that start and fail, or that duplicate services already offered by more-established groups, could be ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Getting a Head Start reduced considerably if more organizations got their start under fiscal-sponsorship arrangements, say some nonprofit leaders and…
By EMAN QUOTAH
Contributor
Fiscal sponsorship helps fledgling charitable programs flyChris Baty never planned to start a nonprofit organization. It sneaked up on him. In 1999, buzzed on caffeine ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Sponsorships Could Cut Waste in Charity World in a San Francisco-area coffee shop, he and a group of his friends…
By EMAN QUOTAH
Contributor
New Magazines Seek Readers Interested in Acting Upon Their Good Intentions
A stack of new magazines is hitting newsstands or showing up in mailboxes this ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: On the Newsstand: New Publications About Philanthropy year to satisfy what the publications say is a growing curiosity among Americans about how to help the world. Their target audience is composed…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Postal Rates for Many Charity Mailings Expected to Rise on May 14
By Peter PanepentoCharities will soon pay an average of 6.7 percent more on postage for fund-raising letters and other types of so-called nonprofit standard mail. Most of those new rates are expected to take effect on May 14. Nonprofit periodical rates will also increase, by 11.7 percent on…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
$33-Million Award Promised to Va. University; Other Gifts
Four higher-education institutions have received big gifts: H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, founder of Lenfest Communications, in Wilmington, Del., and chair of the Lenfest Foundation, in West Conshohocken, Pa., and his wife, Marguerite, have promised to match all gifts up to $33-million made to Washington…
Canadian Gallery Wins in Key Ruling on Dispute Over Donated Paintings
Eighty-five paintings said to be the “heart and soul” of one of eastern Canada’s most important museum collections will be staying in the province of New Brunswick. Peter Cory, a retired justice of Canada’s Supreme Court, announced last week that the paintings belong to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery,…
By Colin Woodard
Contributor
Charities are setting donation records, despite high turnover among fund raisers and trouble attracting repeat gifts Many charities are setting new fund-raising records, said a survey released at the annual meeting here of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Seven in 10 charities raised…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor