Veteran fund raiser works to raise the field’s professionalism New York When Naomi Levine was making weekly visits in the 1980s to see her mother at a retirement home in the Bronx, ALSO SEE: Reading Is Fundamental to NYU Fund Raiser she could count on getting a special request just before they…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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STATE RANKINGS OF CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS BY TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES OF $1-MILLION OR MORE Charitable deductions as a percentage of estimated adjusted gross income Average charitable donation per tax return on which deductions were itemized Wyoming * 13.1% $595,691 South Dakota * 10.7% $299,448 Utah…
Tax Data Show Utah Donors Are Most Generous to Charitable Groups
Americans claimed $136.7-billion in tax deductions for charitable donations in 2000, ALSO SEE:Tax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by StateHow Much Taxpayers of Different Income Levels Wrote Off in Charitable Deducations: A State-by-State Breakdown
By Harvy Lipman
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Wildlife Group Gets Ranch; Other Big Gifts
A rancher has bequeathed land worth an estimated $17.5-million to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, in Missoula, Mont. Bob Torstenson, who lived in Rockford, Ill., and owned the 135,000-acre Double H Ranch in New Mexico, also left $4-million to the foundation to endow the property and take care of…
Accounting Measure Omits Charity-Disclosure Clause
A measure signed by President Bush last week that toughens corporate accounting laws left out a controversial proposal that would have required companies to increase disclosure of their charitable contributions. The measure was a compromise between the two different bills passed by the House and…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Critics Debate Religion’s Role in Abstinence Programs
The role that religion plays in abstinence education could be pivotal as Congress decides whether the ALSO SEE:Just Saying No $50-million a year it authorized under the 1996 welfare law should be continued. Some observers say the possibility that religious beliefs could be a component of…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Charity leaders debate merits of teaching teenagers to avoid sexIn Miami, 59 boys and girls from some of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods have just ALSO SEE:Critics Debate Religion’s Role in Abstinence Programs finished attending a summer camp where they read Anne of Green Gables and other…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Photograph by Francesco BroliEvery other month, about 500 young people fan out across Kibera, a densely populated slum in Nairobi, Kenya, to pick up and haul away trash from open sewers. The youths are among the 4,000 members of a soccer league organized by Rye Barcott, a 2001 graduate of the…
ACCION New York: Appointed Robert Espaillat, former director of ALSO SEE:A Specialist in Geriatrics to Head Robert Wood Johnson Foundation operations at Greenpath (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Albright College (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Kristine L. Douglass, former events…