The Biggest Challenges Fund Raisers Face When They Become CEO’s
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By Holly Hall
Contributor
Advice for Fund Raisers Considering CEO Positions
Fund raisers who have sought to become chief executives say that it can be very difficult to tell in interviews with ALSO SEE:Turning Fund Raisers Into CEO’sThe Biggest Challenges Fund Raisers Face When They Become CEO’sFund Raiser to CEO: Making the Jump search committees or executive recruiters…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Turning Fund Raisers Into CEO’s
More and more charities seek leaders with money-winning skills Paige Flink, executive director of Family Place, a Dallas shelter for battered women, learned how hard it can be for a ALSO SEE:Advice for Fund Raisers Considering CEO PositionsThe Biggest Challenges Fund Raisers Face When They Become…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
San Diego Theater Receives $20-Million From Inventor; Other New Gifts
Three institutions have received big gifts: Donald and Darlene Shiley have given $20-million to the Old Globe Theatre, in San Diego, for endowment and artistic expenses. Mr. Shiley is co-inventor of Pfizer’s Bjork-Shiley heart valve and retired owner of Shiley Inc., a medical-device manufacturer in…
Two New York Universities Receive $200-Million Gifts
Columbia University, in New York, and New York University have each received $200-million gifts for new research institutes. The donations rank among the 15 largest private gifts received by any college or university in the United States, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dawn M.…
By Sun Jung Kim
Contributor
Dell company’s founder applies practical approaches to his givingAustin, Tex. Michael S. Dell built the multibillion-dollar company that bears his name not by inventing new products or services, but by ALSO SEE: The Dells Find Patience Is Key When Trying to Measure Social Progress Michael and Susan…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Refugee camps for people who have fled civil wars, orphanages for children who have lost parents to AIDS, and shelters for survivors of natural disasters are notfun places to be. But one charity hopes that a little clowning around — and maybe even some juggling — can lighten the atmosphere and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
Following are the interest rates, provided by the Internal Revenue Service, for computing charitable deductions for charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, and some other deferred gifts. April 2006 5.6% March 5.4% February 5.2% January 5.4% December 2005 5.4% November…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose Children’s Care Hospital and School (S.D.) Jan. 2005 Sept. 2006 $2,000,000 $1,795,832 To build an outpatient center Dartmouth College (N.H.) Nov.…
Aid to Artisans (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Julio Gonzalez, chief executive officer of Compai, a candle-manufacturing company in San Salvador, to be country director for El Salvador, based in San Salvador, and Josefa Nolte, executive director of MercoMujer (Lima), to be country director for Peru,…