77 Foundations Win Honors in Competition for Communications Efforts
Seventy-seven foundations will be honored for their communications efforts at this week’s annual ALSO SEE:Winners of Communications Awards Made by Council on Foundations meeting of the Council on Foundations, in Chicago. The council’s Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications,…
Bits: A Technology Conference; and Help Raising Money on the Web
“Thriving as a Dot Org: The Fourth Annual Silicon Valley Conference on Nonprofits and Technology” will be held on May 9 in San Jose, Calif. The meeting is being organized by the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, and CompuMentor, in the Bay Area. For more…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Playing Role in Economic Development
For the most part, local economic-development organizations have the hardware and software they need to do basic administrative tasks, but they are not able to take advantage of more sophisticated information technology in their work, says a new report entitled “The Evolving Role of Information…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
SBC Communications Offers Grant Program
SBC Communications will award grants totaling $25-million through its foundation this year to nonprofit technology projects in the 13 states in which the company provides telecommunications services. The San Antonio company is calling the new effort SBC Excelerator. The SBC Foundation will award…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Organizations Would Use Electronic Filing, Study Finds
Nearly three-quarters of charities probably would file their Form 990 informational tax returns electronically if the Internal Revenue Service gave them the opportunity to do so, according to a survey. If electronic filing were available, 73 percent of charities would be “very” or “somewhat” likely…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Charities with plans for new profit-making ventures to support their missions are being invited to compete for one of four $100,000 prizes, plus a year’s worth of free consulting help. Four additional prizes of $25,000 each, plus six months of free consulting, will also be awarded. A newly formed…
Students Rank Managing Courses
Alumni of nonprofit-management education programs find courses on fund raising and governance most valuable, according to a new survey released by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in Battle Creek, Mich. The study builds upon findings of a Kellogg-sponsored study last year of nonprofit-management…
Charities’ Need for Better High-Tech Tools Was Highlighted by September 11
Orlando, Fla. Technology chores, such as upgrading anti-virus software and backing up computer networks, need to be made easier for charities, a nonprofit consultant told participants at the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network Roundup here. That need became especially clear to charities that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Pay-Raise Activists Buoyed by Growing Support From Big Foundations
Santa Monica, Calif. Celia Talavera’s day starts just after sunrise in the cramped bungalow in suburban Inglewood that ALSO SEE:Paying a High PriceThink Tanks Share Similar Names but Not Views on Living Wage she shares with her husband, her two school-age children, and two other relatives newly…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Living-wage laws threaten stability of some charitiesBryan Van Dorpe is facing one of his toughest challenges as executive director of the South ALSO SEE:Pay-Raise Activists Buoyed by Growing Support From Big FoundationsThink Tanks Share Similar Names but Not Views on Living Wage Boston…
By Michael Anft
Contributor