The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and ot’her areas: Community development. Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.) has presented its 2006 Jim and Patty Rouse Award to Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation (Chicago)…
A New Chapter for a Leader of the National-Service Movement
In the fall of 1986, Alan Khazei huddled over one of the earliest Apple Macintosh computers with a college pal, Michael Brown, and drafted a plan for a grass-roots effort that could become a model for a national-service effort. Their hope was to show that young people who devoted a year of their…
By Caroline Preston
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‘Newsweek’: Oprah’s School in Africa
PRESS CLIPPINGSBy Sam KeanOprah Winfrey has spent $40-million over the past five years to build a school for girls that opened last week in a town 40 miles outside of Johannesburg, reports Newsweek magazine (January 8). The school, which has 28 buildings on 22 acres, includes a yoga studio, beauty…
‘Red Herring’: Philanthropic Business
PRESS CLIPPINGSBy Sam KeanMany corporations have enhanced their philanthropic efforts by encouraging employees to spend business days volunteering. But because time is too valuable to waste, those businesses also demand that charities start proving they are worth the investment, reports Red Herring…
By Sam Kean
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‘SmartMoney’: Religious Giving
PRESS CLIPPINGSBy Sam KeanContributions to churches have grown far faster than donations to secular charities, with contributions reaching $93.2-billion in 2005. But that growth has brought with it an increasing need for financial sophistication among church administrators — and many are struggling…
By Sam Kean
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‘Fast Company’: Awards to Charities
PRESS CLIPPINGSBy Sam KeanForty-three nonprofit groups outdid all others in coupling philanthropic goals with business strategies, and their success has earned them recognition in Fast Company‘s fourth annual Social Capitalist Awards (December/January). Of the 314 organizations considered for the…
By Sam Kean
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The Potential for Charity-Business Alliances to Advance Education
NEW BOOKS The Untapped Opportunity: How Public-Private Partnerships Can Advance Education for All, by George Ingram, Annababette Wils, Bidemi Carrol, and Felicity Townsend, looks at the state of education around the world. The publication focuses on four questions surrounding “school gaps,” or…
By Anne W. Howard
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DVD’s Teach Charities How to Raise Money
NEW BOOKS People Give to People: Building a Highly Successful Development Program, is a set of three DVD’s that offer advice on fund raising. Four board leaders from a variety of charity backgrounds, including the arts, social services, and public broadcasting, describe their experiences in…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Study of Grant Making in California
NEW BOOKS California Foundations: An Update on the State’s Grantmaking Community, by Steven Lawrence, approaches its topic from three perspectives. Prepared by the Foundation Center in coordination with the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the U. of Southern California, the study’s first…
By Anne W. Howard
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