Making Sure Female Artists Have a Place of Their Own
When Judy L. Larson was taking art-history courses at the University of California at Los Angeles in the late 1970s, she remembers raising a question in class: Where are all the women artists? “Sure, there was Georgia O’Keeffe and Mary Cassatt, but after that there was -- well, no one,” recalls Ms.…
By Brad Wolverton
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A Plan of One’s Own: a Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy asserts that women today control more wealth -- whether individual, family, shared, or inherited -- than ever before, and that their giving patterns differ from men’s as a result of social factors. Research by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute…
By Katy Marquardt
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Examining Health Grant Making in California
Health Philanthropy in California: the Changing Landscape, by James M. Ferris and Elizabeth A. Graddy, assesses changes in grant making to health groups in California that have taken place over the past two decades. For this report, the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, at the University of…
By Katy Marquardt
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Applying Business Measures of Success to Philanthropy
New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate
By Peggy Knudson
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Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations
Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools
By Katy Marquardt
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Rule Could Exempt Charities From Ban on Campaign Ads
The Federal Election Commission this month proposed rules that could exempt most charities from an advertising prohibition contained in the new campaign-finance law. The commission has asked charities and others to submit their views on the proposals. The new law bars organizations from running ads…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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71% of Americans Trust September 11 Charities
Americans have more confidence in the charities that responded to last September´s terrorist ALSO SEE:How Americans View Charities’ Use of Funds attacks than in charities generally, according to the results of a poll released last week by Independent Sector, a Washington organization that…
By Harvy Lipman
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Departure of Nonprofit Coalition’s Leader Raises Questions About Future
Washington Sara E. Meléndez, the sometimes-controversial president of the nonprofit membership group Independent Sector, has announced that she will leave the coalition at year’s end. The organization, which is the chief representative of the interests of the nation’s biggest and most influential…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Internet service connects charities with board membersNancy Biberman had been chasing three men for eight months and not one of them would give her the time of day. She had heard it all -- “I’m out of the country,” “I’ll get back to you,” “I just don’t have the time” -- and she was tiring of the…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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United Way of America CEO Urges Changes at D.C. Unit
Alexandria, Va. The chief executive of United Way of America is warning that the United Way of the National ALSO SEE:On-the-Job Goes OnlineFund Raisers Seek to Keep Personal Touch in Online Drives Capital Area, which is under investigation by a federal grand jury in the wake of allegations of…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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