Program Helps Charities Shape Technology Plans
Wired for Good is helping charities in the Silicon Valley develop sound technology plans. Non-profit groups go through a stringent application process to participate in the program, which is run by the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, in San Jose, Calif. Charities that are chosen for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Aids Access to Disability-Rights Exhibit
By NICOLE WALLACEThe National Museum of American History, in Washington, is using technology to make its new exhibit on the disability-rights movement accessible to people with disabilities. Located next to a powerful symbol of the civil-rights movement -- a section of the lunch counter from the…
Seattle Charity Sponsors Mobile Computer Lab
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Boys & Girls Club of King County is giving the Good Humor man a run for his money this summer. The organization, based in Seattle, is sending its Techmobile -- a mobile computer lab housed in a converted Winnebago -- out on the road to introduce children in the county’s poor…
Ensuring a Long Run for the Arts
Charity teaches management, financial ropes to cultural groupsBaltimore Center Stage Theater’s endowment will soon be worth more than $20-million -- topping the value of endowments at all but a handful of non-profit theaters nationwide. ALSO SEE:National Arts Stabilization The theater here, which…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Charity for Homeless Veterans Is 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…
Study Analyzes Advocacy Support
Liberal non-profit groups in California are hampered by a lack of foundation support for their public-policy work, says a new report. The report, published by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog organization, is intended to be the first in a series of studies about grant…
3 Funds Change Focus of Grants
Three foundations -- the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, in New York, the Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland, in Baltimore, and the Thomas L. Conlan Education Foundation, in Cincinnati -- have each announced plans to change their grant-making strategies: Edna McConnell Clark, with roughly…
Companies’ Plans to Donate AIDS Drugs to Africa Draw Mixed Response
By DEBRA E. BLUMThree major pharmaceutical companies this month became the latest drug makers to pledge to donate millions of dollars worth of medicine, health services, and other support to countries in Africa and other regions hard hit by the AIDS pandemic. The pledges -- made separately by…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
San Diego Fund Receives $80-Million; Other Gifts
Several organizations have received big gifts. A Point Loma, Calif., woman has bequeathed $80-million to the San Diego Foundation. Jean Jessop Hervey, who died last year, attached no stipulations to the gift. Her late husband, James Edgar Hervey, a lawyer, had established a trust with the money he…
‘Perfect Storm’ author creates charity to help fishermen’s familiesGloucester, Mass. When Warner Bros. Studios blew into town last September to film scenes for this summer’s blockbuster movie, The Perfect Storm, they brought with them a $25,000 ALSO SEE:The Perfect Storm Foundation check for The…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor