Election Ban Unclear, Congressional Report Says
As the Internal Revenue Service continues its crackdown on charities that become involved in political campaigns, a Congressional report takes the tax agency to task for failing to explain clearly to nonprofit groups how to comply with the law. The 1954 law that enacted the prohibition on…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Supreme Court Reviews Case on Religious Charities
By Suzanne PerryThe Bush administration, in a case that could set new ground rules for lawsuits involving the constitutional separation of church and state, last week asked the Supreme Court to quash a lawsuit challenging its program to steer more federal money to religious groups for social…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Bits: ‘Grassroots Use of Technology’ Conference To Be Held in June
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a workshop entitled, “Planning Your Online Legislative Affairs and Advocacy Campaign,” in Washington on April 3. Another workshop, “Engaging Online in a Presidential Election,” is scheduled for June 19. For more information: Go to http://webworkshops.info.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Site Offers Online Mapping
A pair of organizations in Boston have teamed up to create an interactive Web site that allows users to merge statistical information about cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts with mapping software. The site — the MetroBoston Data Common — is a collaboration between the Metropolitan Area…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Arts Foundation Revamps Grants Process
Switching from slides to electronic images has helped the New York Foundation for the Arts save money and improve its grant-making review process. The foundation awards grants of $7,000 apiece to roughly 120 visual, literary, or performing artists in New York annually. Until last year, visual…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Makes Web Video Accessible to More People
The migration of television programs, movies, and other video content to the Internet marks the newest challenge to a nonprofit organization that has worked for more than three decades to make broadcast media accessible to people with disabilities. Thirty-five years ago, WGBH, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Corporate philanthropy. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (New York) has presented its Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards, which honor companies…
An organization seeks to improve leadership prospects for women at Jewish charitiesCindy Greenberg was 21 when she started working for charities that serve Jewish people and causes. Now 32 and director of the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, she says she has…
By Darlene M. Siska
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Topic of Aging Gets New Look With the Support of Foundations
A new series that aims to portray aging in a positive way will make its debut on public television in ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Charity’s Mature VisionARTICLE: How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?ARTICLE: Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the ‘We Generation’ June,…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the ‘We Generation’
Few people think more about the aging of America than William D. Novelli. As chief executive of AARP, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Charity’s Mature VisionARTICLE: How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?ARTICLE: Topic of Aging Gets New Look With the Support of Foundations…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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