Philanthropy Counseling: the Latest Benefit for High-Tech Workers
By NICOLE LEWISWhen employees at Cisco Systems, a technology company in San Jose, Calif., want to ALSO SEE:Teaching the Art of GivingProject Aims to Make Giving by Blacks More Effective and EnduringA Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots UpBoston Group Takes the…
By nicole lewis
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A Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots Up
By DOMENICA MARCHETTITracy Gary made her first donation when she was 14, using $100 her mother had given her to set up a charitable giving account. She has been hooked on philanthropy ever since. Now 49, Ms. Gary -- whose mother ALSO SEE:Teaching the Art of GivingProject Aims to Make Giving by…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Project Aims to Make Giving by Blacks More Effective and Enduring
By ELIZABETH GREENEMany black people grow up thinking that the world of organized philanthropy is for rich ALSO SEE:Teaching the Art of GivingA Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots UpPhilanthropy Counseling: the Latest Benefit for High-Tech WorkersBoston Group Takes the…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Photograph by Robert KuselThe bright lights and cheerful bustle of the year-end holiday season often mask the fact that for many people, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day can be a sad and lonely one. For the past three years, hundreds of Jewish volunteers in Chicago have set aside…
Arts Center Foundation (El Cajon, Calif.): Appointed Richard F. Zellner, vice president of development, to be president and chief executive officer. Bay Path College (Longmeadow, Mass.): Appointed Amy Benoit, an assistant account executive at FitzGerald Communications (Cambridge, Mass.), to be…
New wealth, high demand lead to a boom in donor educationIn cities and towns across America, donors are learning how to make their charitable ALSO SEE:Project Aims to Make Giving by Blacks More Effective and EnduringA Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots UpPhilanthropy…
By Elizabeth Greene and Meg Sommerfeld
Interest Rates for Planned Gifts
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. December 2000 7.0% November 7.2% October 7.4% September 7.6% August 7.6% July 8.0%…
Status and recent results of drives for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs Started or announced To conclude Goal Amount raised Purpose Clarkson U. (N.Y.) July 1997 June 2004 $70,000,000 $48,000,000 For new facilities, renovations, student financial aid, and general academic program…
The following awards have been presented for work in fund raising, nonprofit management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Corporate philanthropy. The Community Foundation of New Jersey has named Panasonic Consumer Electronics (Secaucus, N.J.) its 2000 Corporate Philanthropist of the Year for the…