$150-Million Donated to Stanford University
Netscape founder James H. Clark announced last week that he had donated $150-million to Stanford University to construct a biomedical-engineering center. Mr. Clark -- who also established Silicon Graphics and Healtheon, a company designed to streamline health-care communications using the Internet…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Non-Profit Officials Admit Weaknesses in Leadership
Non-profit executives gathered here at the annual meeting of Independent Sector last week said they had not done a good job of providing leadership and being accountable to the public. The harsh self-criticism was revealed in an electronic poll of meeting participants, who included senior-ranking…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Study: Charitable Bequests Could Total $25-Trillion During Next 50 Years
Predicting a coming “golden age of philanthropy,” a pair of Boston College researchers say that charities could gain $6-trillion to $25-trillion in bequests over the next 50 years. John J. Havens and Paul G. Schervish estimate that $41-trillion to $136-trillion will change hands over the next half…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Clintons Vow to Strengthen Philanthropy
The first-ever White House conference on philanthropy lasted just three hours, but President and Mrs. Clinton, as well as many non-profit officials, hope to insure that the event has longer-lasting effects.
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Photograph by Gisele Wulfsohn/Impact Visuals In South Africa, home to one of the planet’s most virulent AIDS epidemics, more than 3.2 million people are infected with HIV, and new infections occur at a rate of more than 1,500 a day. That number includes many infants and children, whose infected…
Private donations to top charities rose 16% in ’98, survey finds Fueled by the strong economy, America’s top charities raised 16 per cent more last year than they did in 1997, according to The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 survey. The jump is the biggest since 1991, when The Chronicle began ranking…
The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Alan Zipkin, controller at Time Warner Cable (New York), to be controller. AIDS Action (Washington): Appointed Jeanne White, founder of the Ryan White Foundation (Indianapolis), which recently ceased operations, to be the national spokesperson for the…
Following are summaries of recent reports by the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service and the National Charities Information Bureau. Those two private organizations report on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and…
Harvard Law School alumni join fight for social justice at growing network of volunteer legal centers Seven years ago, the consumer advocate Ralph Nader met for sandwiches and coffee with some of his colleagues from Harvard Law School’s Class of 1958 and pitched ALSO SEE:A Call for College…
By Anthony Giorgianni
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