Barbara Fleischman, an art collector who donated more than 300 works to the Getty Museum and made a personal loan to a former curator, Marion True, resigned from the museum’s board last week, reports the Los Angeles Times. Three days before the grand opening of Getty Villa, an antiquities museum…
$100-Million Gift From Dan Duncan
Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, will donate $100-million to the Baylor College of Medicine for cancer research, patient care, and the creation of an endowed chair, the Houston Chronicle reports. The college hopes the gift will help obtain a federal…
The six charities that raised the most money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts have spent 71 percent of the money collected, reports MSNBC. Habitat for Humanity has spent the smallest share so far, $8.6-million of the total $75.3-million collected. The group currently has 60 homes completed or…
A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled on Monday that Albert Ellis was improperly ousted from the board of the psychotherapy institute he founded nearly 50 year ago, reports The New York Times. The board of the Albert Ellis Institute voted to remove Dr. Ellis from the board at a meeting in…
Poor nations complain about fund-raising tactics of international aid groups
36% of funds raised by professional solicitors in California went to charities, says new report
The Bush administration has set aside $200-million in overseas AIDS assistance for small charities and religious groups that have never received U.S. government grants before, reports the Associated Press. As a result, a growing number of new groups are being formed and charities that previously…
A growing number of charities in Southwest Florida and elsewhere are increasing their fund-raising returns by personalizing their direct-mail appeals, reports the Herald-Tribune, in Sarasota, Fla. Donations to local nonprofit groups have grown 20 to 40 percent thanks to the new approach the…
The Boys Choir of Harlem faces eviction from its headquarters in a Manhattan public school due to a dispute with New York City’s Department of Education, reports the Los Angeles Times. In recent years, the nonprofit choir has faced multiple problems, including growing financial difficulties and…