Insurance Company to Donate $100-Million to Help Kids
Insurance company to give $100-million to aid children’s health
Rock Stars to Record Song to Benefit New Orleans Charity
The rock bands U2 and Green Day plan to record a song together to benefit New Orleans musicians harmed by Hurricane Katrina, reports MTV.com. The two groups will record “The Saints Are Coming,” a song by the Skids, a Scottish band from the late 1970s. The proceeds will benefit Music Rising, a…
Jerry Falwell’s Fund-Raising Quest
Jerry Falwell and his son, Jerry Falwell Jr., hope to raise $1-billion for their evangelical institution, Liberty University, reports Forbes. Getting there will certainly not be easy. The Falwells have been paying off more than $100-million in debts, the magazine says, and donations to the church…
Google Takes a Different Approach to Giving
Google philanthropy operates as a for-profit entity
Billed as “Los Angeles’s newest cultural destination,” the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center opened yesterday to much fanfare at the Westwood campus of the University of California at Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times. The philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad gave $23.2-million toward the…
Congress Probes College Sports
Congress has broadened its investigation of nonprofit organizations, with the committee that oversees legislation affecting such groups taking a hard look at college sports in recent months, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. Among the questions being explored is whether the National…
A Nonprofit Leader Builds His Encore Career
A recently retired headmaster contemplates his new life.
By Clint Wilkins
Contributor
Dedicated Crew Makes 1906 Steamboat Ship-Shape
In the winter of 1955, Electra Havemeyer Webb had the last Lake Champlain steamboat towed to the site of her new museum. Even ALSO SEE:Photo Gallery for a sugar heiress who was fast becoming known as a maverick collector, this was an unusual undertaking: The Shelburne Museum is two miles from the…
By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Fund raising. The Indiana U. Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis) has presented the 2006 Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fund Raising to…