Moonlighting Can Sharpen Skills and Raise Enthusiasm, Say Fund Raisers
For John H. Taylor, moonlighting as a consultant while maintaining a full-time job has been a ALSO SEE:When Fund Raisers Go SoloSelf-Employed Consultants: What Works and What Doesn’t way to have the best of both worlds. Mr. Taylor, who specializes in helping fund-raising departments keep track of…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Freelance consultants offer charities expertise and savingsAfter watching four of its chief fund raisers come and go in five years, Mary Ann Pulk, executive director of the ALSO SEE:Moonlighting Can Sharpen Skills and Raise Enthusiasm, Say Fund RaisersSelf-Employed Consultants: What Works and What…
Volunteer with Down Syndrome Among Recent Points of Light
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Lilly Heiress Expects to Bestow $500-Million on Numerous Charities Through Estate Plan
Ruth Lilly, an heiress to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune, has created estate plans that provide an estimated half-billion dollars for Indiana nonprofit groups and several arts organizations. In addition to the $100-million gift to the Modern Poetry Association announced last month (The…
By Serdar Tumgoren
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New York’s Union College Receives Pledge of $18-Million; Other Recent Gifts
Three higher-education institutions have received big gifts and pledges: Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y., has received an $18-million pledge from an alumnus, John S. Wold, a geologist and former member of Congress from Casper, Wyo., and his wife, Jane. The $18-million, promised as a bequest…
Protestants Increase Share of Income Donated to Church, Report Says
Protestants are donating bigger shares of their incomes to churches, but the portion of their gifts earmarked to support church-sponsored social services is dropping, according to a new report. An analysis of 29 Protestant denominations by Empty Tomb, an Illinois research organization, shows that…
By Debra E. Blum
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Few Foundations Publish Reports, Study Finds
More foundations published annual reports this year than in past years, according to a new ALSO SEE: Foundations: How They Report to the Public study by the Foundation Center. Even so, more than 90 percent of grant makers still do not publish such reports, the center said. The number of foundations…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Prospective Grantees Take Foundation to Court and Ask for $1.25-Million
In a rare public display of grantee frustration with grant-maker behavior, farm workers in an ALSO SEE:Terror’s Fallout agricultural Washington county are suing the Northwest Area Foundation for $1.25-million, charging that the grant maker reneged on a promised antipoverty grant. Disenchanted…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Slowdown in entry visas for foreigners imperils charities that aid new immigrantsWhen James D. Lual was 7, the national army came into his family’s village in southern Sudan and killed his father and elder brother. James ran away, along with three friends and his cousin, Isaiah Manyok, beginning an…
By Michael Anft
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Photograph by Morris WeintraubIt is a dream a lot of 12-year-old girls share -- to dance the part of Clara in “The Nutcracker.” Forty years ago, when LaVerne Reed was that age, she was already a talented dancer, but the chances that a young black girl in Philadelphia would perform the lead role in…