Seeking Older Volunteers: Cleveland Charities Experiment With Approaches
After Jim Hilliard, 57, was laid off from his job as a records manager at a Cleveland bank in 2003, he ALSO SEE:Special Report: A Boom in Volunteers concluded he’d had enough of the corporate world. He decided to get a degree in public administration and look for work at a nonprofit group, academic…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Maryland Volunteer Program Aims to Attract Retired People With Skills to Share
Rockville, Md. When officials at Mercy Health Clinic, in Germantown, Md., wanted to start a new health and exercise ALSO SEE:Special Report: A Boom in Volunteers program for immigrants, their initial thought was to get grant money to help cover the cost of investigating the idea. But when that plan…
By Leah Kerkman
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Charities look to engage a generation about to turn 60 When Chris Klose was 16, he was electrified by President John F. Kennedy’s famous appeal: “Ask not what ALSO SEE: America’s Graying Population: by the Numbers Special Report: A Boom in Volunteers your country can do for you — ask what you can…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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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. November 2005 5.0% October 5.0% September 5.0% August 4.8% July 4.6% June 4.8% May…
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (New York): Appointed Josie Di Chiara, senior director of marketing at BMG Entertainment (New York), to be director of marketing. Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Washington): Appointed Camille Akeju, president and chief…
How to Help Your Charity Meet Its Technology Needs
The Accidental Techie: Supporting, Managing, and Maximizing Your Nonprofit’s Technology
By Caroline Preston
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Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose Cleveland Institute of Music Feb. 2005 Nov. 2006 $40,000,000 $35,700,000 For facilities Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School (Ga.) Sept. 2004 June 2006…
A Mission to Make Social-Justice Groups More Effective
As a fresh-faced graduate of Duke University, 21-year-old Jerry Hauser got a firsthand tutorial in inequality as one of 500 charter teachers in the Teach for America program. For two years during the early 1990s, he taught math and history to high-school students in Compton, Calif., one of the…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Increased Regulation of Nonprofit Groups Is Unnecessary, New Report Says
An “overwhelming majority” of nonprofit boards are highly involved in monitoring financial and ethical practices at their organizations, and their oversight means that Congress has little reason to increase the federal government’s regulation of charitable institutions, says a new report by…
By Harvy Lipman
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