Sources of Information on How Charities Can Use Mapping Software
CommEn Space. Provides assistance to environmental and local activist groups in the ALSO SEE:Putting Charity on the MapSatellite Imagery Allows Charity to Map Changes in ForestsMaps Show Mismatch Between Locales of a City’s Food Pantries and Their ClientsMaps Help Charity Win Changes for Calif.…
Satellite Imagery Allows Charity to Map Changes in Forests
Conservation International has long known that the diverse plant and animal population on the African island of ALSO SEE:Putting Charity on the MapSources of Information on How Charities Can Use Mapping SoftwareMaps Show Mismatch Between Locales of a City’s Food Pantries and Their ClientsMaps Help…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Computer cartography helps groups analyze valuable dataWhen Gregory Reinholt became branch director at the Fox Point Boys & Girls Club, in Providence, R.I., in ALSO SEE:Satellite Imagery Allows Charity to Map Changes in ForestsSources of Information on How Charities Can Use Mapping SoftwareMaps…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Planned-Giving Alliance Formed
Planned-giving organizations in Canada, Europe, and the United States have joined together to create an international body to promote their industry. The International Gift Planning Alliance seeks to create an effective link between charitable-gift planners worldwide, and to increase cooperation on…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Relief Groups Prepare to Provide, and Seek, Aid as Threat of War Looms
In a letter mailed last month to 125,000 of its donors, the International Rescue Committee, in New York, urged recipients to help cover the costs of aiding Iraqi refugees and displaced people. “Our hope is that war in Iraq -- and ALSO SEE:Clouds on the HorizonSierra Club Hopes New Fund-Raising…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Sierra Club Hopes New Fund-Raising Steps Counter Economy’s Slump
While many charities shrink at the idea of adding new employees in bad economic times, the Sierra ALSO SEE:Clouds on the HorizonRelief Groups Prepare to Provide, and Seek, Aid as Threat of War Looms Club has nearly tripled the size of its fund-raising staff since 2000, to 29 people. The expansion…
By nicole lewis
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Packard Foundation Announces Grant-Making Cuts of $50-Million
Los Altos, Calif. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, whose assets have dropped sharply in recent years, last week announced that it would give away $200-million in 2003 -- $50-million less than last year, when the foundation slashed its grant-making budget from $500-million in 2001. The…
By DAVID WHELAN
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Heir to Hyatt Fortune Wants Foundation’s Assets Frozen
Lawyers for one of the heirs to the Pritzker fortune have asked a Cook County judge, in Chicago, to freeze the assets of the family’s foundation until a lawsuit that accuses her father of stealing $1-billion from her trust fund is settled. Liesel Pritzker alleges that her father, Robert Pritzker,…
By Harvy Lipman
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Medical-Research Project Wins $25-Million; Other New Gifts
Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, and University Hospitals of Cleveland have received a donation of $25-million from Bert L. Wolstein, founder of Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, in Cleveland, and his wife, Iris. The gift is earmarked for a biomedical-research project to be…
Companies use high-tech services to help people create foundationsNorwalk, Conn. Two companies -- one an upstart with roots in the Internet world, the other a financial-services giant -- are vying to make forming a private foundation as easy as opening an online checking account. Foundation Source,…
By Brad Wolverton
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