Black-History Museums: Breaking Barriers
Nearly $1-billion in new projects is putting the spotlight on the role of African-Americans in the United StatesThe Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture resides in Baltimore’s bustling Inner ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity BoomBlack-History Museums: A…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Families of autistic children, frustrated by a lack of services for their kids, create charities to help othersSharon and Ron Oberleitner didn’t set out to start a new autism charity. But when the Oberleitners -- whose 12-year-old ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity Boom son has the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Religious Radio: Spreading the Word
Religious media efforts grew faster than other types of charitable causes, a ‘Chronicle’ analysis findsAirwaves for Jesus began broadcasting from Fort Myers, Fla., last March on two 3,000-watt FM stations, accomplishing ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity Boom a goal held for the past 10…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Putting Down Stakes Near the Strip
Diverse mix of new charities hope Las Vegas will prove to be a hospitable climateLas Vegas
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Religion and Education Groups Grew the Most
About 40 percent of the nation’s charities -- or more than 300,000 organizations -- gained tax-exempt status in just the past decade, a growth record that is unprecedented in recent American history. In comparison, during the previous 10 years fewer than 170,000 organizations were granted charity…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Are 800,000 charities too many to serve society, or not enough? Nearly 800,000 charities are now listed on the Internal Revenue Service’s official roster -- about twice as many as in 1990.The booming economy of the mid-1990s was a big reason for the growth, as were changes in government programs --…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Photograph by Terry Winn Micheline Dahm-Schiltges and her husband, Jacques Dahm, traveled to Peru and Bolivia from their home in Luxembourg 18 years ago because they wanted to experience another culture. But the poverty they encountered shocked them so much that the two schoolteachers decided to…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Biggest Gifts and Pledges Announced by Individuals in 2004
Amount Donor Purpose or beneficiary $3.35-billion Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft (Seattle), and his wife, Melinda F. Gates To the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) $100-million Sidney E. Frank, head of the Sidney Frank Importing Company (New Rochelle, N.Y.). To Brown University…
Abraham Fund Initiatives (New York): Appointed Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu, director of marketing communications and senior assistant to the president at the Jerusalem Foundation, to be director of Israel operations. The organization encourages coexistence and equality between Jewish and Arab Israelis.…