American Charities Protest Plan to Restrict Foreign Nonprofit Groups in Russia
American nonprofit and advocacy groups are putting pressure on Russian lawmakers — including enlisting help from Congress — to persuade them to back down from legislation that would increase state control over nongovernmental organizations. The legislation was introduced by Russian deputies who…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Senate’s Effort to Change Charity Tax Breaks Provokes Controversy
Washington Congress has moved a step closer to passing a comprehensive tax bill with provisions — long sought by many nonprofit organizations — that are designed to encourage charitable giving and to cut down on abuses of charity tax laws. But the measure, which was passed by the U.S. Senate,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Multiple Missions and a Thousand Ideas
Determined New Jersey homemaker has spent 3 decades building one of the nation’s biggest food banksHillside, N.J. A few minutes before 9 a.m., Kathleen F. DiChiara parks her Volvo station wagon outside the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, a building near Newark’s airport that is the size of seven…
By nicole lewis
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Donations to Hospitals Were Flat Last Year, Report Says
American hospitals and other health-care institutions raised an estimated $6-billion in the 2004 fiscal year, roughly the same amount as in 2003 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new report by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. At hospitals in Canada, giving declined 4.8…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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More New Englanders Give, but Plains Residents Give the Most, Study Finds
A higher percentage of New Englanders give to charity than do residents of any other region of the country, according to a new study issued by the Giving USA Foundation. Sixty-seven percent of all American households donated to charity in 2002, but 82 percent of those in New England did, the study…
By Harvy Lipman
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Americans Have Mixed Views on Charities
Americans have positive feelings about nonprofit groups in general, but they harbor serious reservations about some aspects of the philanthropic world, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive, a research company in Rochester, N.Y. The survey was intended to measure how Americans felt about…
By Debra E. Blum
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Harvard to Receive $100-Million for Medical Research; Other New Gifts
Six institutions have received big gifts: Eli and Edythe L. Broad have pledged $100-million to Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., for the Broad Institute, a biomedical science research center run by Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical…
Few Signs of ‘Donor Fatigue’ Appear as Year-End Appeals Wrap Up
As charities prepare for the busiest fund-raising weeks of the year, most nonprofit officials expect 2005 to end with record-setting donations. Despite news reports that Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters may have exhausted donors’ ability to donate to other causes this year, many…
By Leah Kerkman
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More People Are Giving Online, Poll Shows
The number of Americans who donate to charities online has jumped sharply in the past year, bolstered by 13 million people who gave money over the Internet to help victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Eighteen percent of…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Company Lays Out Steps to Inspire Philanthropy
The Ultimate Gift Experience — a new financial-planning company in Hingham, Mass. — plans to promote philanthropy using the approaches laid out in Jim Stovall’s novel, The Ultimate Gift. The company describes its process in the following steps: 1. Understand. It advises people to read The Ultimate…