Celebrity Activism Inspires Gratitude, Groans
The recent spate of celebrities choosing Africa as their charitable cause, including Madonna and Angelina Jolie, has drawn praise from aid groups but snickers from the media, reports Reuters. “So many celebrities are jumping on the Africa bandwagon, like they descend on a hot restaurant—because…
Monitors Say Sri Lankan Troops Killed Aid Workers
The Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission, an international monitoring group, released a statement blaming Sri Lankan government troops for the mass murder of 17 tsunami-relief workers this month, reports Reuters. All but one of the victims, who were found shot dead in their office, were ethnic Tamils. The…
Hurricane Katrina Touches Off a Civil War-Era Battle
The stately mansion where Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America, made his last home is well-known for its wraparound porch. Deep-set, it sweeps around three sides of the white-columned antebellum home in Biloxi, Miss. Or it did, until Hurricane Katrina unleashed a…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Community service. Campus Compact (Providence, R.I.) has presented its Frank Newman Leadership Awards, which honor students who have demonstrated civic leadership…
How-To Guide: Saving Cultural Institutions’ Collections During a Disaster
Field Guide to Emergency Response: A Vital Tool for Cultural Institutions, produced by Heritage Preservation and financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides instructions on preserving and storing artifacts, artworks, manuscripts, and other valuable collections during a…
By Anne W. Howard
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A Foundation’s Effort to Promote Conservation
Creating Common Ground, discusses Embrace Open Space, a collaborative effort by several McKnight Foundation grantees to increase awareness of land-use planning and the conservation of open spaces in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. The campaign identified 10 “treasures” that many feared could…
By Anne W. Howard
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Lessons From a Foundation’s Work to Prevent Child Abuse
Community Partnerships for Protecting Children: Lessons, Opportunities, and Challenges, a report from the Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, shares the results of an effort by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to combat child abuse…
By Anne W. Howard
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How Philanthropists Helped Needy Children Through a Hands-On Approach to Giving
Promising Futures: The Unexpected Rewards of Engaged Philanthropy
By Anne W. Howard
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Book Offers Ideas for First-Time Fund Raisers
The Accidental Fundraiser: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Money for Your Cause
By Anne W. Howard
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Health-Care Endowments See Earnings Grow by 6.3%
Endowment investments at nonprofit health-care organizations grew by 6.3 percent in 2005 — slower growth than in past years and a mirror of how the stock market has been faring, according to a new study by the Commonfund Institute. Last year’s returns were down from an average of 8.2 percent in…
By Harvy Lipman
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