$20-Million to Emory U. for Lung Center; Other Gifts
Emory University, in Atlanta, will receive $20-million over five years from Andrew J. McKelvey, founder of a job-recruitment company, to create a lung-transplant center. The gift will endow a professorship in lung-transplant medicine, establish a research fund to support five or more new faculty…
Charities Might Become Major Beneficiaries of Settlement in Vitamin Price-Fixing Case
Charities in New York will soon become the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in fines paid by international vitamin companies found to have engaged in price fixing, and charities in other states may get similar windfalls. ALSO SEE: Funds Available From Vitamin Settlement Twenty-one states, as…
By Ian Wilhelm
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State Ranking of Charitable Deductions, by Taxpayer-Income Categories
ALSO SEE:Cost of Living Makes Big Difference in State Giving Rankings, Study Finds Tax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by State How The Chronicle Calculated Generosity of State Residents STATE RANKINGS OF CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS BY TAXPAYERS WITH INCOMES OF $75,000 TO $100,000 Charitable…
How The Chronicle Calculated Generosity of State Residents
By HARVY LIPMANFiguring out how residents of one state compare in generosity with those of another is a complicated task because comprehensive data are not available. For its analysis, The Chronicle used data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income Bulletin for spring 2001,…
By Harvy Lipman
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Foundations Are Spending More to Fight AIDS, Study Finds
After a three-year decline, the amount of money grant makers devoted to AIDS-related projects increased from $28.3-million in 1998 to $40.7-million in 1999, according to a new report. ALSO SEE:Amount Grant Makers Provided to AIDS Programs Using Foundation Center data, Funders Concerned About AIDS,…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Marketing Welfare: What Charities Should Do to Influence Public Policies
With Congress planning to reshape welfare laws next year, nonprofit groups need to develop a “social marketing strategy” similar to what corporations use when they promote a new product, says Michael Laracy, senior associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in Baltimore. ALSO SEE:Weighing In on…
By Michael Anft
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A Determined Couple Promotes Matrimony as the Solution to End Poverty
Potomac, Md. On a bit of a whim, Michael and Harriet McManus once spent a weekend at a conference in Connecticut designed to strengthen marriages. Already together for 10 years and seemingly happy, the McManuses hardly wore the look of a couple in need of help. Or so thought Michael. ALSO…
By Michael Anft
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Welfare Law Puts Strain on Urban Charities That Serve the Poor
Washington When Carlene Greene gets to work at 8 a.m., she knows that by evening she will have fielded requests for help from 100 or more people. As the program coordinator at Catholic Charities’ Northeast Family Center, a gleaming white rectangle amid northeast Washington’s rundown lots and homes,…
By Michael Anft
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Photograph by Larry BarnsGetting old is never easy, but it’s especially hard for blind people. Moving to a nursing home can mean a complete loss of independence for someone who can’t see. Since 1914 the Guild Home for Aged Blind has helped people with limited eyesight -- most of whom are 65 and…
New Figures Released on Charity Deductions
Using statistics from the Internal Revenue Service, RIA -- a tax information publisher -- has calculated the average deductions for charitable contributions taken by taxpayers in 1999 in six tax brackets: Income Average contribution 1999 0-$14,999 $1,350 $15,000-29,999 $1,619 $30,000-49,999 $1,774…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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