IRS Charity Official Lauds Agency’s New Structure
The Internal Revenue Service’s continuing reorganization is helping the agency strengthen its charity-regulation efforts, according to Steve Miller, the first director of the service’s new Exempt Organizations office. The revenue service is consolidating its bureaucracy into just four units, one of…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Report: New York Volunteers Enroll Kids in Health Care
Using Community Groups and Student Volunteers to Enroll Uninsured Children in Medicaid and Child Health Plus, by Melinda Dutton, Sarah Katz, and Alison Pennington, reports on an effort by the New York branch of the Children’s Defense Fund to increase the number of poor kids enrolled in…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Dialogue Assesses Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts Education for a Global Society, by Carol M. Barker, summarizes a November 1999 meeting held by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to examine ways to strengthen liberal-arts education in America. Ms. Barker, a senior associate at Carnegie, writes that a gap exists between what…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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How to Help Wealthy Donors With Their Estates
Values-Based Estate Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach to Wealth Transfer for Professional Advisors
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Veteran Grant Maker Imparts Lessons Learned
The Insider’s Guide to Grantmaking: How Foundations Find, Fund, and Manage Effective Programs
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Health-Care Policy Making to Be Broadcast on the Web
By NICOLE WALLACEBeginning this fall, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation will broadcast health-policy events -- such as Congressional hearings, meetings, and press conferences -- free on the Internet. The Menlo Park, Calif., foundation will send subscribers to its HealthCast service a weekly…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Best Buddies Moves Volunteers Online
By NICOLE WALLACEBest Buddies is bringing its friendship-matching program online to help mentally retarded people learn to use computers. Since February, the organization’s e-Buddies program has matched 100 retarded people with non-disabled volunteers, who agree to write to their buddies at least…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Expertise for Non-Techies
By NICOLE WALLACEA new Web site, TechSoup, is designed to help non-profit professionals find answers to their technology questions -- whether they are technology experts or not. TechSoup is a project of CompuMentor, a San Francisco charity that provides technology assistance to non-profit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Science’: An Evolutionary Explanation of Giving
Charities have long known that naming buildings after donors or recognizing patrons in publications can be effective tools for fund raising. But now a team of Swiss evolutionary biologists has conducted an experiment that demonstrates the key role that public recognition plays in motivating people…
By Jennifer Moore
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‘The Nation’: A New Civic Globalism
Non-profit groups have grown into an important force on the world policy stage, but they must be made more effective at strengthening democracy, Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of Civicus, an international organization that promotes citizen participation, writes in The Nation (May 8). A move toward…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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