Bits: Software for Conducting Health Studies; Internet-Training Curriculum
* The Population Council, a non-profit organization in New York, has made available free on its Web site the Household Registration System, software designed to help researchers conduct long-term demographic and public-health studies in developing countries. The council’s site offers a manual and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Endowment Gives Leads to Other Sources of Funds
The National Endowment for the Arts has created a Web site to show that it isn’t the only game in town when it comes to federal support for the arts. The site, called Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities, describes and provides links to grant programs in 23 federal agencies that have provided…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Discount-Purchasing Service Now Available Nationwide
A new online service allows non-profit organizations to buy products -- anything from diapers to office supplies -- at discounted prices. Purchasing Services Agency is a non-profit group in San Francisco that negotiates discounted prices on goods and services for its member organizations. It was…
By Amanda Marshall
Contributor
Volunteer-Matching Program Still Extending Its Reach
In the last three months of 1999, VolunteerMatch put more than 55,000 potential volunteers in touch with non-profit organizations that needed assistance, almost doubling the number of matches it had made in the first 18 months it was online. Five months into 2000, the total number of matches made…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ousted Trustees Should Repay $5-Million to Hawaiian Trust, Report Says
The five ousted trustees of Hawaii’s wealthiest charity should repay the trust more than $5-million for legal and accounting expenses they charged as they were fighting to retain their lucrative jobs, a court-appointed official has recommended. If the trustees are unable to repay the full amounts,…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Homelessness Groups Win in U.S. Court
A U.S. district court has sided with homelessness charities in a case involving a federal law that gives such groups top priority in making use of buildings the federal government no longer needs. At issue in the case was whether the General Services Administration circumvented a federal law --…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
Non-profit groups battle over new, low-power radio service The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland hopes to broadcast its message soon in a new way: on the airwaves of its own FM radio station. The social-services group is one of hundreds of charities gearing up to apply to the Federal…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Planned-Giving Officers Earn Average of $65,204
By MEG SOMMERFELD The average annual salary for a fund raiser who specializes in planned giving is $65,204, up from $62,640 in 1998, according to a new survey. According to the newsletter Planned Giving Today, which conducted the survey, the median salary also increased, rising to $62,500, from…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Giving Trends in the Midwest Analyzed
By HARVY LIPMAN Affluent residents of five Midwestern states are about as generous as most other well-off Americans ALSO SEE: Charitable Bequests in Five States, 1997 when it comes to charity, according to a new report by a national organization of fund raisers. In the first of what it expects to…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
$190-Billion Bonanza for Charity
Donations grew by 7%, but signs for 2000 are less encouraging Americans gave $190-billion to charity last year, a rise of 6.7 percent from 1998 in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to a report released last week. The pace of giving slowed slightly in comparison with 1998, ALSO SEE:Charitable…
By nicole lewis
Contributor