Charitable Deductions Rose in 2004, IRS Says
TAX WATCH New statistics released by the Internal Revenue Service show that deductions claimed for charitable contributions rose 7.2 percent to ALSO SEE: TABLE: Charitable Deductions Claimed on Tax Returns $156.2-billion in 2004. The IRS will revise the statistics in coming months before making…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. American Indians. Ecotrust (Portland, Ore.) has presented its 2006 Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership to Guujaaw (Haida), an artist, traditional-medicine…
Ways for Board Members to Promote Their Organizations
NEW BOOKS Generating Buzz: Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Boards, by Sally J. Patterson, shows board members how they can promote their organizations through marketing efforts, programs that encourage interaction with the people the charity serves, and other methods of garnering publicity.…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Book: Community Leaders Can Save Cities
NEW BOOKS Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities, by Harry Wiland and Dale Bell, follows two film producers in Santa Monica, Calif., and the several years they spent documenting the efforts of community leaders and other people nationwide to improve…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Author Reviews Eight Grant-Making Programs That ‘Failed’
NEW BOOKS Great Philanthropic Mistakes
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Stay With the Status Quo for Arts Support, Author Says
NEW BOOKS Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Charities and Companies Can Collaborate to Help Each Other
NEW BOOKS Cause Marketing for Nonprofits: Partner for Purpose, Passion, and Profits
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Roiled by Disputes Over Aid to Religious Groups
The head of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund resigned under pressure last month, shortly after seven prominent religious leaders stepped down from one of the charity’s advisory committees in anger over the nonprofit group’s activities. The religious leaders said that the fund’s staff had ignored their…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Charities That Work in Russia Worry About Impact of New Law
Nonprofit organizations had hoped the world’s richest and most democratic nations would use last month’s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg as a forum to speak out against a law that imposes new restrictions on charities and foundations that work in Russia. But that did not happen. Western…
By Bryon MacWilliams
Contributor
A Former Jail Guard Helps Ex-Prisoners Move Back Into Society
A DAY IN THE LIFE It is just before 4 on a Monday morning, and the 2700 block of Baltimore’s East Madison Street is dark and forbidding, dotted with boarded-up houses. Homes that remain occupied sport “no loitering” signs, adding to the scene’s desolation. But in a matter of minutes, the street…
By Mary E. Medland
Contributor