Letter From Soros Lays Out New Plans for Open Society Organizations
Following are excerpts from a letter the financier George Soros sent last ALSO SEE:Soros, in Major Shift, Will Focus Giving on Advocacy and Globalization month to grant recipients and others who have worked closely with the Open Society Institute:We have always prided ourselves on moving with the…
Leadership Advice To Spark Creativity and Imagination
On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal: a Leader to Leader Guide
By Katy Marquardt
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Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
From the issue dated June 27, 2002 Following are the interest rates, provided by the Internal Revenue Service, for computing charitable deductions for charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, and some other deferred gifts. June 2002 5.8% May 6.0% April 5.6% March 5.4%…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced To conclude Goal Amount raised Purpose Barton College (N.C.) Feb. 2001 Feb. 2006 $21,000,000 $17,000,000 For endowment, capital improvements, scholarships, endowed faculty chairs, and a…
Helping Employees Get Through a Charity Merger
When the American Cancer Society’s New England offices merged to form one regional division in the ALSO SEE:Rethinking Nonprofit PartnershipsCharity Partnerships: Sources of Information mid-1990s, every employee except the chief executive officer had to reapply for a job in the new organization.…
By Marilyn Dickey
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Staying Connected to a Charity’s Mission After a Move Into Management
IN THE TRENCHES By Tom Chalkley Jean has always felt called to the front lines of antipoverty work. Her enthusiasm for helping the homeless and hungry led first, a couple of decades ago, to a stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a group that helps people in poor neighborhoods. Progressing through a…
By Tom Chalkley
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Tips for Turning Reluctant Volunteers Into Eager Fund Raisers
VOLUNTEERISM By Janet Tate The Knoxville-Knox County Animal Center broke ground this month on a new, expanded facility, a $3-million building project that depends, in part, on the efforts of volunteer fund raisers. And yet, though the Tennessee charity’s mission -- caring for homeless pets --…
By Janet Tate
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Maintaining Fund-Raising Skills While on Family Leave
The best things that you can do while you’re taking an extended absence from working is to keep a toe in by sharpening your skills and volunteering.
By Alison Stein Wellner
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How Boards Meet the Challenge of Growing Beyond Start-Up Organizations
IN THE TRENCHES By Kimberlee Roth Nobody at the Bensalem Rescue Squad will ever forget the time when the organization had to be resuscitated by the township it serves. Founded in Bensalem, Pa., in 1980 by five volunteers, the nonprofit ambulance squad hired its first three employees three years…
By Kimberlee Roth
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Draft Report on Foundations Would Simplify Laws
A panel of lawyers advising the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association is seeking comments on a draft of a proposal to revise federal rules for private foundations. The draft report summarizes some of the “more important differences” in the way the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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