Grant Making for Social Change
Understanding Social Justice Philanthropy, by John Hunsaker and Brenda Hanzl, encourages foundations to use their grants not just to provide food to the hungry and medical care to uninsured people, but ultimately to reduce, or even eliminate, the problems of needy people. Mr. Hunsaker, a research…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Tax and Legal Guide for Charities in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
The Paper Chase: Nonprofit Filings, Forms, and Record-Keeping: Sixth Edition provides an overview of the legal and tax documents that are required for charities in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The guide, published by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington and Washington Area…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Tips for Charitable Fund Raising
Over Goal!: What You Must Know to Excel at Fundraising Today
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Questions in Humanitarian Relief
Basics of International Humanitarian Missions
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Head of YWCA Focuses on Group’s Mission, Not on Criticism
After only a few weeks on the job, the new chief executive of the YWCA of the USA, Patricia Ireland, has already achieved one of her goals: raising the profile of the 145-year-old organization and its 313 local affiliates. But the attention the group is receiving is not the kind she had sought. The…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Catholic Group Faces Staff Cuts
Catholic Relief Services is offering buyouts to employees and finding other ways to cut administrative expenses because of a decline in donations and losses in investments. The loss in revenue has forced the charity to suspend or cut charitable programs, reduce its advertising, travel, and training…
Ex-Charity Head Indicted for Theft
A former president of Goodwill Industries of Santa Clara County, in California, has been indicted on federal charges that he stole $804,602 from the charity from 1979 to 1997 by wiring money intended for job training for disabled people into personal accounts in Switzerland and Austria. Andrew…
‘City Pages’: Northwest Area Fund
The past six years at the Northwest Area Foundation have been “mystifying,” says City Pages, a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. City Pages says the foundation has been slowing down its spending on grants while increasing the amount it pays in administrative costs. The newspaper says that in 2000-1,…
‘American Demographics’: The Wealth Transfer
With predictions that at least $1-trillion will shift from the parents of baby boomers to their children, a “small army of lawyers, accountants, and financial planners -- as well as real estate brokers, travel agents, and car salesmen -- hope to profit,” says American Demographics (May). While many…
Nonprofit Work Appeals to Graduating Seniors
Almost two-thirds of graduating college seniors say they are considering taking a “public service” job, a new poll has found, and one in five of those students hopes to work for a nonprofit group. The study -- the first of its kind -- was conducted by Princeton Survey Research for the Center for…
By Elizabeth Greene
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