Site to Fight Hunger Gets a New Owner
GreaterGood.com has purchased the Hunger Site, a popular Web site where corporate sponsors make a donation to the United Nations World Food Programme every time a visitor clicks on the site’s “Donate free food” button. Since its founding in June, almost 34 million people have visited the site,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Reflections of a Top Regulator
As Marc Owens leaves IRS, he mulls changing nature of non-profit world.
Inventor Sues Red Cross in Hopes of Winning Share of Internet Gifts
The outcome of a battle now pending in federal court could pose costly problems for charities that raise money online. The American Red Cross has been sued by an inventor who argues that he deserves a share of the charity’s online contributions. Witold A. Ziarno says that technology he patented…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Looking to Get Out of the Pool
As planned-giving option loses favor, many charities reorganize costly funds Twenty years ago, charities were touting a planned-giving option known as a pooled-income fund as an appealing way for donors to support a cause and, at the same time, earn substantial income. Today, many of those same…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Companies Urged to Close the ‘Divide’
Technology companies should support charities that are working to close the so-called digital divide, a new report says. The report by the Conference Board, a New York research group financed by 3,000 companies, says that closing the divide separating those who have access to computers and the…
$16.8-Million to Help Poor Get Health Care
In an effort to help the rising number of Americans who lack health insurance, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is spending $16.8-million to help cities design new ways to finance and deliver health-care services to the poor. In the first phase of the program, called Communities in Charge:…
Program for Apple Harvesters Among Recent ‘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…
3 Organizations Each Get $10-Million; Other Gifts
Two universities and a museum have received big gifts. * Christopher H. Browne, a managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, an investment-management firm in New York, has given $10-million to the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, to endow five professorships at the School of Arts and…
How The Chronicle Conducted Its Survey
The Chronicle’s annual survey is based on financial information provided by 146 of the largest private foundations in the country. The foundations in the survey held combined assets of $180.8-billion in 1999 ALSO SEE:The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search the survey database and browse…
New Foundation Leaders Come From Fields Afar
Many of the nation’s biggest foundations are being run by new leaders. At least 15 of the 146 big foundations surveyed by The Chronicle appointed new chief executives last year -- many of whom have never before held full-time jobs as grant makers. ALSO SEE:The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
Contributor