New Law Limits Housing Exemption
A new statute limits the income-tax deduction that ministers, priests, rabbis, and other religious leaders can claim for the housing allowances they receive from their parishes. The law, which takes effect this month, allows religious leaders who receive a housing allowance to write off the sum on…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Scholar Takes Roundabout Path to Philanthropy World
Several weeks into his new job as chief executive officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Carl J. Schramm was leafing through his copy of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, a book by the German political economist and sociologist Max Weber. Mr. Schramm noticed that at some…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
How Family Foundations Can Avoid Legal Problems
Top 10 Ways Family Foundations Get Into Trouble, by Ellen Bryson and John A. Edie, points out areas of “murky and shifting ground” where family-foundation board members might run into legal problems. Most of the mistakes that family foundations make, say the authors, fall under the category of…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Streamlining the Grant-Making Process
Centralization of the Grants Administration Function and the Development of Grant Processing “Best Practices”, by Paul Schofer and Shirley Young, describes how the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation streamlined the fund’s grants-management functions. After finding those functions to be “increasingly…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Basics for Starting a Nonprofit Business Venture
Unlocking Profit Potential: Your Organization’s Guide to Social Entrepreneurship
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Perspectives on Property-Tax Exemption
Property-Tax Exemption for Charities
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Tips for Improving Board-Staff Interaction at Corporate Foundations
Making the Most of Corporate Foundation Boards: Strategies and Practices
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Advice on Setting Up a Direct-Mail Program
Building Your Direct Mail Program
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Bits: Free Data for Nonprofit Groups; and a Conference on Using the Internet
The National Priorities Project, a nonprofit organization in Northampton, Mass., has added a feature to its Web site that allows visitors to create tables and charts using data on social needs, demographics, and government spending collected by federal agencies. To get there: Go to http://data…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Approach to Linking Corporations, Charities
Nonprofit organizations that are looking for corporate sponsors for their events and companies that are looking for events to support now have a place to find each other online. The new site, IEG SponsorDirect, lists sponsorship opportunities and allows companies to browse them at no charge. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor