Patience Is Essential for Fund Raisers Who Seek Planned Gifts
By NICOLE LEWISOnly 15 people have made planned gifts to the Ronald McDonald House of the Twin Cities since it began soliciting such donations 18 months ago, ALSO SEE:Gaining Donors’ Trusts as far as the charity knows. Orlee Engler Kahn, director of planned giving and endowment at the charity, is…
By nicole lewis
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Charities step up their efforts to attract sizable planned giftsIn the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, the University of Missouri at Columbia’s alumni magazine ALSO SEE:Patience Is Essential for Fund Raisers Who Seek Planned Gifts regularly featured advertisements showing an elderly couple who had…
By nicole lewis
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Special Olympics Trainer Among ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton´s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Ford Foundation to Award $19-Million to Help Leaders of Local Charities
By VIKKI KRATZThe Ford Foundation this week is announcing a new awards program to support local non-profit leaders, as well as to identify the characteristics that make them successful. The six-year, $19-million program -- Leadership for a Changing World -- will offer 60 non-profit leaders or teams…
By Vikki Kratz
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UCLA Gets $20-Million Donation; Other Gifts
Three higher-education institutions have received big gifts. Eli and Edythe Broad, of Los Angeles, have donated $20-million to the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles for a new art complex. The facility will be named for Mr. Broad, chairman of…
Making Sure Their Art Stays Alive
Foundation promotes the work of little-known, nonliving artistsFor little-known artists who want to win attention to their work, the Judith Rothschild Foundation is just the place to turn. But there is one caveat: They must be dead. ALSO SEE: The Judith Rothschild Foundation Few philanthropies…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Photograph by John CushingFor more than 30 years, Children’s HeartLink, in Minneapolis, has been working to prevent and treat heart disease among poor children around the world. Founded in 1969 by two cardiovascular surgeons, the charity’s original purpose was to bring sick children to the United…
In a tight job market, charities try to heighten their appeal to workersLeaders of Jumpstart for Young Children, a national non-profit group in Boston that helps preschool youngsters, don’t want their employees bolting for other jobs. So each year ALSO SEE:Pay for Leaders at Biggest Charities Rises…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Cheney Releases Details of Charitable Giving
Richard B. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, says that he and his wife, Lynne Cheney, donated $209,832 to charity from 1990 through 1999 and took tax deductions for that amount, a figure that represents about 1 percent of the couple’s adjusted gross income of $20.9-million for that…
By Grant Williams
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Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales (Center Valley, Pa.): Appointed James Ciminelli, a vice president at the Bankers Trust Private Banking Group of Deutsche Bank (New York), to be director of development, and Marianne Salcedo, director of foundation and corporate relations at Cedar Crest…