Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
From the issue dated October 16, 2003 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. October 2003 4.4% September 4.2% August 3.2%…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose Bay Path College (Mass.) July 1998 June 2003 $9,000,000 $9,605,966 For academic programs, capital improvements, and technology California Science…
Fund-Raising Veterans Offer Advice on Setting Up a Donor-Research Unit
During Peg Shelton’s first month as a researcher in the fund-raising department of the U.S. Olympic Committee, in Colorado Springs, Colo., she created a report that showed where the nonprofit organization could get millions more in donations. Working with the fund-raising staff, she identified…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Christopher Rademacher left the nonprofit career fair last May at George Mason University feeling ALSO SEE:How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs triumphant. Despite arriving at the Arlington, Va., campus late and missing some of the recruiters he had…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Pamela Flamer started attending nonprofit career fairs two years ago, after a colleague at the ALSO SEE:A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs Kennedy-Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, returned from one held at nearby Goucher College and sang its…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
MacArthur Foundation Announces 24 ‘Genius’ Prize Winners
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, has named 24 new MacArthur Fellows. The fellowships, commonly referred to as “genius awards,” recognize creativity and are designed to encourage talented people to pursue their own intellectual and professional inclinations. Fellows…
Former Foundation CEO Takes on Global Warming in New Post
Human endeavor, says Peter C. Goldmark Jr., can be divided into six realms -- the conventional three of government, business, and nonprofit activities, plus religion, the news media, and the criminal underworld. Mr. Goldmark’s work has taken him into four of those six, and he brings that versatile…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Questionnaire for Evaluating Volunteer Programs
Volunteer Management Audit, by Susan J. Ellis, offers a detailed questionnaire to help nonprofit groups evaluate their volunteer programs. Ms. Ellis, president of Energize, a training, consulting, and publishing company in Philadelphia that specializes in volunteerism, says the questionnaire will…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Charities and Foundations Reflect on Philanthropic Responses to 9/11 Attacks
September 11: Perspectives From the Field of Philanthropy, Volume 2,is a collection of interviews with executives of charities and foundations that contributed to relief efforts after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Several focus on the many ways that nonprofit organizations provided immediate aid to…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor