‘Clear Path’ Led Lawyer to Charity That Helped Her Cope
When I graduated from college with an English degree in the early 1970s, I didn’t have any big career aspirations. I was engaged at the time, and my husband-to-be was going to law school. I’d also briefly thought about going to law school, but it just wasn’t feasible for us both to go…
Good Intentions, Bad Presentations
A new study shows that few presentations for nonprofit causes make a positive impression By Candie JonesNonprofit officials are so focused on educating the public that they frequently resort to boring, data-saturated presentations that fail to connect with their audiences emotionally, according to…
By CANDIE JONES
Contributor
More kids and parents seek volunteering opportunitiesMargaret Brewer knew her colleagues had doubts when she started a formal effort to encourage families to volunteer together at the Aquarium of the Pacific, in Long Beach, Calif. The first family to sign up about two years ago, a mother and her…
By Leah Kerkman
Contributor
American Charities Seek Aid for Indonesian Quake Relief
By Brennen Jensen, Candie Jones, and Caroline Preston More than 50 American charities are providing medical care, food, and other services to victims of last month’s earthquake in Indonesia, but their fund-raising efforts have thus far met with varied results. Save the Children, for example, has…
By BRENNEN JENSEN and Caroline Preston
Bigger Matching Gifts Don’t Produce More Donors
Persuading a wealthy donor to match smaller gifts from other people is one of the most popular techniques in fund raising. But charity officials shouldn’t spend a lot of time encouraging big donors to offer two or three times as much as other donors give, a new study by economists has found —…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Charities Urged to Change Annuity Calculations
By Holly HallAn influential fund-raising group has recommended that charities increase the compounding interest rate used to calculate how donors and charities will benefit from an increasingly popular type of deferred gift. The American Council on Gift Annuities says charities should increase the…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
As Hurricane Season Begins, Red Cross Applies Lessons of Katrina
The American Red Cross raised an extraordinary amount of money online for its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts: ALSO SEE:Statistical Data: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingArticle: Charities Make Faster ConnectionsArticle: Debate Rages Over Plan to Let Charities’ Messages…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How The Chronicle’s Survey on Online Fund Raising Was Conducted
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s seventh annual survey of online fund raising is based on data provided by 214 ALSO SEE:Statistical Data: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingArticle: Charities Make Faster ConnectionsArticle: Debate Rages Over Plan to Let Charities’ Messages Bypass…
By CANDIE JONES
Contributor
Debate Rages Over Plan to Let Charities’ Messages Bypass Spam Filters
A new service that AOL and Yahoo say will improve e-mail delivery and bolster recipients’ confidence that the ALSO SEE:Statistical Data: Online Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingArticle: Charities Make Faster ConnectionsArticle: How The Chronicle’s Survey on Online Fund Raising Was…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Make Faster Connections
Fund raising for disaster relief helped lift online totals in 2005 Online giving to the nation’s largest charities continued its steep climb in 2005, according to The Chronicle’s seventh annual survey of online fund raising. Electronic gifts to the 167 organizations that provided data for this…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor