Author Advises Charities How to Overcome Infighting
Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations: The Leader’s Guide to Finding Constructive Solutions
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Guide Delineates Laws Governing For-Profit Activity
Joint Ventures Involving Tax-Exempt Organizations, Second Edition
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Book Explores Match Between Non-Profit Groups and MBA’s
The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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* The House Ways and Means Committee is seeking reactions to the recent recommendations of the Joint Committee on Taxation that the I.R.S. be allowed to greatly expand the amount of financial and other information it releases to the public about non-profit organizations (The Chronicle, February…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
IRS Issues Final Rules for Charity Travel Tours
The Internal Revenue Service has issued rules to guide universities, museums, and other tax-exempt organizations that run travel tours on how to avoid owing taxes on revenue they earn. Non-profit groups must pay the unrelated-business income tax, known as UBIT, on income from activities that are…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Architecture. The National Building Museum has awarded its first Apgar Award for Excellence for achievement in the observation, interpretation, and evaluation of American…
Clinton Budget Seeks More for Social Welfare and the Arts
President Clinton’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year calls on Congress to increase spending on the arts, social welfare, community service, and a variety of other areas. ALSO SEE:Clinton’s 2001 Budget Proposal Mr. Clinton also asks for key changes in tax laws that would affect many…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Charity Shopping Malls: a User Guide
A new report helps non-profit organizations shop for an online charity shopping site. Allison Schwein, a non-profit consultant in Sunnyvale, Calif., has published on her Web site a report, “Charity Shopping Portals,” that lists and compares more than 20 online shopping sites that allow shoppers to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Netaid Awards $1.7-Million for Projects in Africa, Kosovo
The Netaid.org Foundation awarded $1.7-million in grants to 13 non-profit organizations working to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions in Africa and Kosovo. Netaid.org is a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and Cisco Systems to use the Internet to raise public…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
March of Dimes Drive Moves From Letters to E-Mail
A 50-year-old fund-raising tradition is going online. The March of Dimes Mothers March started out in 1950 as a campaign in which volunteers went door-to-door asking their neighbors to contribute to the group’s efforts to find a cure for polio; eventually it evolved into a neighborhood…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor