Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced Closing date Goal Amount raised Purpose Allegheny College (Pa.) Oct. 2002 June 2006 $105,000,000 $71,000,000 For academic programs, the annual fund, capital improvements, and faculty and…
Drug-Abuse Prevention Group Leader Says Principles Learned in Early Jobs Guided Her
ENTRY LEVEL Mary Pat Angelini Age: 48 First nonprofit job: Assistant director, Mt. Rogers Psycho-Social Program at Friendship House, Community Services Board, Marion, Va. Current job: Executive director, Prevention First, Oakhurst, N.J. While most 11-year-olds I knew were anxious to go to…
IRS Bars Stock-Options Deal for Charities
By Harvy Lipman The Internal Revenue Service has barred nonprofit organizations from offering their executives a type of deferred compensation similar to the stock options some corporations give their employees. Aggressively promoted by some of the nation’s largest accounting firms, the…
Advice for Keeping Board Members Motivated Over the Long Haul
After three years of serving on the board of a mental-health center near her home in northern Ohio, Mary Mihaly felt her enthusiasm sputtering. Then serving as vice president and being groomed for the presidency, she was “terrified,” she says. “Most of what I did involved rubber-stamping staff…
By Kimberlee Roth
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Survey of Foundations Emerging From Health Care Conversions
A Profile of New Health Foundations, May 2003 provides a snapshot of the characteristics and grant-making priorities of 165 health foundations formed when nonprofit organizations became for-profit companies. State laws typically require such converting organizations to preserve the charitable…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Research on Improving the Performance of Grant Makers
Agile Philanthropy: Understanding Foundation Effectiveness, by Joel J. Orosz, Cynthia C. Phillips, and Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, describes the growing attention researchers are devoting to determining how grant makers can better work with grantees to accomplish charitable goals. Mr. Orosz is a professor…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Ready in Defense: a Liability, Litigation, and Legal Guide for Nonprofits
By Jessica Kronstadt
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The Writings of John W. Gardner
Living, Leading, and the American Dream
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Former Mayor Raises Political Profile of the National Urban League
In choosing Marc H. Morial as its president, the National Urban League -- long known for its programs around the country that offer African-Americans job training, housing services, business advice, and other help -- has made a bid to become more of a political force. Mr. Morial, 45, was elected…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Indiana U. Offers Ph.D. on Philanthropy
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, in Indianapolis, has added a doctoral program in philanthropic studies to its academic offerings -- the first traditional Ph.D. program dedicated solely to that discipline. The new graduate program was authorized this month by the state’s Commission…