Donors who plan to sponsor a rider in the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride can now make their contributions online. Next month more than 1,200 volunteers will ride their bicycles 510 miles between Fairbanks and Anchorage to raise money for research toward an AIDS vaccine. Each rider is responsible for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Second Harvest Wins $7-Million in Aid
America’s Second Harvest has received a multimillion-dollar grant to improve its technology infrastructure. Over the next three years, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, in Las Vegas, will give the network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs $7-million for its Enterprise Project.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Public-Interest Group Blends Cable, Internet
Downtown Community Television Center, a community-media organization in New York, has built a television studio that is designed to broadcast live, interactive television programs simultaneously on cable and the Internet. Staff members from DCTV, as the center is known, taught a group of teenagers…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Alliances Focus on Charities
Technology companies that provide services to the non-profit world have made several major announcements:. * A coalition of companies announced that they intend to release an open-language standard called the Open Philanthropy eXchange, or OPX, later this month. The companies believe that using a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Income Grows at Non-Profit Theaters, but So Do Expenses, New Study Finds
The strong economy continued to buoy non-profit theaters last year as their average income rose 7.1 percent, a new survey reports. But the rate of income growth tapered off compared with the previous year, when it rose 11.6 percent (The Chronicle, July 15, 1999). And while non-profit theaters’…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Charities Sue Ky. County Over Fund-Raising Law
By JENNIFER MOORESeveral national organizations have joined together to sue Jefferson County, Ky., over its enforcement of a fund-raising solicitation regulation. The case marks the latest in a series of court challenges to fund-raising laws by cities and counties. It is most similar to a lawsuit…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
Red Cross Shores Up Its Caribbean Operations With U.S. Fund Raisers
By NICOLE LEWISA few years ago, Luke Greeves, a fund raiser at the American Red Cross’s Washington headquarters, got an offer he couldn’t refuse: a two-year post in the Caribbean. Mr. Greeves moved to Kingston, Jamaica, and later Santo Domingo, in the Dominican ALSO SEE:Have Expertise, Will…
Hong Kong Philanthropy ‘Makes Fund Raising in the U.S. Look Boring’
By NICOLE LEWISTerry Alan Farris never dreamed his development career would take him to Hong Kong, ALSO SEE:Have Expertise, Will TravelAmerican Attempts to ‘Reinvent Philanthropy’ at Australian UniversityRed Cross Shores Up Its Caribbean Operations With U.S. Fund Raisers where he now raises money…
By nicole lewis
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American Attempts to ‘Reinvent Philanthropy’ at Australian University
By HOLLY HALLWhen John Semmler left Cornell University for a fund-raising job at the University of Sydney, ALSO SEE:Have Expertise, Will TravelHong Kong Philanthropy ‘Makes Fund Raising in the U.S. Look Boring’Red Cross Shores Up Its Caribbean Operations With U.S. Fund Raisers in Australia, he…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
U.S. fund raisers abroad find hot job market, big challengesTwo and a half years ago Terry Alan Farris, a fund raiser at the University of ALSO SEE:American Attempts to ‘Reinvent Philanthropy’ at Australian UniversityHong Kong Philanthropy ‘Makes Fund Raising in the U.S. Look Boring’Red Cross…
By nicole lewis
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