Donations Reported by 429 United Ways for 2002-3
United Ways across the country raised $3.71-billion in their 2002-3 campaigns, a decline of 7.5 ALSO SEE: 7.5% Drop in United Way Donations Is Worst in Three Decades percent from the previous year after adjusting for inflation. Following are the results from 163 of the largest United Way campaigns.…
Red Cross Slowly Rebuilds Its Disaster Fund
The American Red Cross says its Disaster Relief Fund -- which was empty last month as Hurricane Isabel began threatening the East Coast -- had accumulated more than $4.4-million in donations and pledges last week after the organization renewed its appeals for gifts. The newly contributed dollars…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Groups seek donors who give in monthly installmentsThe Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ fastest-growing fund-raising effort lies on the electronic frontier of financial transactions. The Boston group has persuaded some 2,800 people to let it automatically withdraw…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Both Houses of Congress Pass Giving Bill
Washington Legislation designed to encourage more charitable giving has now passed both houses of Congress and awaits a conference between the House and Senate, but some lawmakers continue to raise concerns about whether a charity bill that costs the federal government money can be passed while the…
By Brad Wolverton
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Acting as an Entrepreneur: Excerpts From Essay
Carl J. Schramm, the embattled chief executive of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, published an essay ALSO SEE:A Divided Vision in May outlining how foundations can benefit from the innovative thinking evinced by entrepreneurs. Following are excerpts:“The innovative foundation, in my view, has…
$100-Million Pledged to Brain Center; Other Gifts
Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has committed $100-million to create the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in Seattle. The institute’s inaugural project, the Allen Brain Atlas, will attempt to map the genes that are responsible for operating the mammalian brain. Mr. Allen and Bill…
By Julia Green
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Critics dispute changes at the Kauffman FoundationKansas City, Mo. Four years ago, when leaders of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council here needed money to carry out a master ALSO SEE:Acting as an Entrepreneur: Excerpts from Essay plan to renovate blighted housing, reduce street trash and…
By Michael Anft
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Birds blackened with crude oil accidentally spilled into the seas present some of the most haunting images of how humans can spoil the natural world. Just such a disaster in 1971 -- when two tankers collided and spilled 900,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay -- sparked the creation of…
Chief Executives Who Received $100,000 or More in Fringe Benefits
ORGANIZATION: Lumina Foundation for Education
American Foundation for AIDS Research (New York): Appointed Judith Auerbach, director of the behavioral and social-science program and HIV-prevention science coordinator in the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be vice president for public policy in…