Baby Boomers Give More Than Older Americans
Baby boomers, the oldest of whom turn 60 next year, now contribute more to charities and causes than the ALSO SEE:How Americans Give: Differences Among the Generations World War II generation does, a new study has found. What’s more, a third of them plan to increase their contributions in the next…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Grass-Roots Fund Raising Produces Millions for Groups That Help Troops
The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have inspired the creation of many new charities to help military families and ALSO SEE:Charity’s Homefront OperationsOperation First Response: a Focus on Everyday NeedsConnecting the Troops to Their FamiliesUSO’s Deal With a Fund Raiser Comes Under ScrutinyNew…
By nicole lewis
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USO’s Deal With a Fund Raiser Comes Under Scrutiny
Donations to the USO have risen quickly during the war in Iraq, and it has become one of the most successful ALSO SEE:Charity’s Homefront OperationsOperation First Response: a Focus on Everyday NeedsConnecting the Troops to Their FamiliesGrass-Roots Fund Raising Produces Millions for Groups That…
By nicole lewis
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Connecting the Troops to Their Families
A poem tacked to a wall in a room at the North Riverside Armory, in Illinois, pushed Dan Shannon to change jobs and ALSO SEE:Charity’s Homefront OperationsOperation First Response: a Focus on Everyday NeedsUSO’s Deal With a Fund Raiser Comes Under ScrutinyGrass-Roots Fund Raising Produces Millions…
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New Charities That Aid Service Members and Their Families: A Sampling
Name Year founded Mission How much it has raised since its creation America’s Heroes of Freedom Washington 2002 Organizes events for service members and families, and donates clothing, toiletries, phone cards, and other items to wounded service members. Also plans to build a museum and education…
Operation First Response: a Focus on Everyday Needs
Culpeper, Va. Twice a week, Peggy Baker and her husband, Steve, drive down their gravel driveway and head 80 miles north ALSO SEE:Charity’s Homefront OperationsConnecting the Troops to Their FamiliesUSO’s Deal With a Fund Raiser Comes Under ScrutinyGrass-Roots Fund Raising Produces Millions for…
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Charity’s Homefront Operations
Grass-roots groups raise millions to help members of the military Soon after Sgt. Christopher M. Tomlinson left the springtime chill of his Army base in Kansas last year for ALSO SEE:Operation First Response: a Focus on Everyday NeedsConnecting the Troops to Their FamiliesUSO’s Deal With a Fund…
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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. Interest Rates for Planned Gifts September 2005 5.0% August 4.8% July 4.6% June…
Actors’ Fund of America (New York): Appointed Ina Sorens Clark, senior director for external affairs at IFP/New York, an independent-film production group, to be chief development officer. Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago): Appointed Harry Johns, executive vice president of strategic initiatives at…