Methods of Finding Major Gifts Using Technology
Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
How to Make the Most of Online Giving
Fundraising Online: Using the Internet to Raise Serious Money for Your Nonprofit Organization
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Founder of Social-Justice Charity Seeks Common Ground
Alan Jenkins had what seemed like the ideal platform for someone who has dedicated his career to promoting social justice. As director of human-rights grant making at the Ford Foundation, in New York, Mr. Jenkins helped set the agenda for one of the world’s largest philanthropies. It was the type…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Grant Makers’ Overhead Costs: Corrected Figures
Due to errors in one version of the questionnaire The Chronicle sent to the nation’s largest private foundations ALSO SEE: Table: Internet Giving: How Much Charities Have Raised in The Past Five Years for its annual survey of grant making (March 23), figures for administrative and compensation…
Most Colleges Keep Mum on Holdings
Two-thirds of the nation’s colleges and universities do not make public the holdings in their endowments, according to a survey by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. The institute, a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, also found that nearly three-quarters of the…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
U.S. Tax Court Denies Easement Deduction
TAX WATCHIThe IRS has won a round in its efforts to crack down on abuses of a legal tool designed to protect private land from development. The U.S. Tax Court has ruled that a Virginia couple’s gift of a development restriction on a 29-acre piece of land does not qualify for a charitable deduction…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Coalition of Housing Groups Battles Ruling by Tax Agency
TAX WATCHSome nonprofit organizations that give down-payment assistance to home buyers are fighting an IRS ruling that says they may lose their tax-exempt status if the money for down payments is provided by the sellers of the homes. An alliance of down-payment assistance groups, including…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Senator Chides IRS on Enforcing Charity Laws
TAX WATCHThe Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to go after the charitable world’s “bad actors,” including nonprofit hospitals that don’t provide enough benefits to society to justify their tax-exempt status and charities that overpay their board members and trustees, according to a…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
$268.5-Million Donated to Charity by Federal Workers
Washington Federal employees last year pledged $268.5-million to the Combined Federal Campaign, the government’s annual charity drive, more than has ever been raised in the appeal. The campaign raised about $11.6-million — or 4.5 percent — more than 2004’s total of $256.9-million, according to the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Screening-Process Changes Promised by Federal Agency
By Suzanne Perry and Grant Williams Washington Government officials who oversee the Combined Federal Campaign have vowed to improve the screening of organizations that raise funds through the annual charity drive for federal workers after the release of a scorching outside review of the campaign’s…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor