Online Guide Offers Advice on Disaster Recovery
A new guide from the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York helps charities develop a plan to get their operations back to work quickly after a disaster. The manual, which is available free online, discusses issues nonprofit groups should think through to develop a disaster-recovery plan,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Helps Needy Get Discounts on Drugs
A coalition of more than 90 national nonprofit organizations is helping low-income people who receive Medicare benefits enroll in programs to reduce the cost of their prescription medications. Central to the campaign is a Web site, BenefitsCheckUpRx, that alerts potential applicants to the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Technology Program Awards $14.4-Million
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program has awarded grants totaling $14.4-million to 27 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative technology projects in education, health care, economic development,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Preventing Violence: Resources for Charities
By Rebecca Gardyn Critical Incident and Violence Intervention League. Intended for employees of the National Institutes ALSO SEE:Keeping Workers Safe of Health, this Web site (http://civil.nih.gov) includes practical information for supervisors on the topic of violence on the job. National Center…
Security measures have become a priority at some organizationsAs she prepared to leave her charity’s New York headquarters for a conference in Washington this summer, Denalerie ALSO SEE:Preventing Violence: Resources for Charities Johnson-Mullen placed a notice on the front door informing the…
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
President Bush Signs Into Law New Tax Rules on Noncash Gifts
Washington
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
How a Mother’s Cause Became a Multimillion-Dollar Charity
No. 134 By Debra E. Blum White Plains, N.Y.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Persistence Pays Off for CARE Fund Raiser
No. 60 By Lauren Kafka In 1986, when Marshall Burke applied for his first job at CARE, he received ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 database of U.S. charities that raised the most in donations from individuals, foundations, and corporationsHow The Chronicle Compiled Its…
By Lauren Kafka
Contributor
Fund Raiser’s Brash Style Yields Big Dollars for Youth Group in Tacoma
No. 12 By Ben Gose Tacoma, Wash.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Fund Raiser’s Bold Plans Could Pay Off for American Cancer Society
No. 2 By Brad Wolverton When Rob Mitchell became chief fund raiser at the American Cancer Society ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 database of U.S. charities that raised the most in donations from individuals, foundations, and corporationsHow The Chronicle Compiled Its…
By Brad Wolverton
Contributor