2 Funds Join in $16-Million Effort to Aid Poor Californians
The California Endowment and the Rockefeller Foundation plan to spend a total of $16-million on a new grant-making program to improve the health of impoverished Californians by increasing their access to local and regional job opportunities. The program, California Works for Better Health, will…
Volunteers Honored With Points of Light Award
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…
Cornell University Gets $100-Million; Other Gifts
Several institutions have received big gifts. * Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., has received $100-million from an anonymous donor to help pay for a campus make-over. Officials intend to renovate the university’s West Campus, which comprises residential and dining facilities for upperclass…
Education Grant Makers Told How to Learn: Listen to the Public
CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK If foundations want their grant dollars to improve the performance of the public schools, they need to listen more to parents and the public, Andy Plattner, a communications consultant, told an audience of foundation officers assembled here for the annual fall meeting of…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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New study heats up the debate over how much of their assets foundations can--or should--give away each year A new report by a Barnard College economist contends that foundations have not been giving enough away over the past two decades to merit the tax benefits they and their donors receive. Perry…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds
Americans are volunteering in record numbers, a new survey ALSO SEE:Who Donated Time and Money, 1993-98Household Giving to CharityComparisons of People Who Itemize Tax Deductions and Those Who Do NotViews on Charitable Organizations reports, although their charitable contributions have dipped…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Growing Ranks of Fund Raisers Haven’t Increased a Key Measure of Giving
The number of charity fund raisers has grown dramatically in ALSO SEE:Moving Giving off the DimePhilanthropy Takes the Bully PulpitBig Gifts Do Little to Change National Giving AveragesGiving by Americans, 1968-1998 recent years, but the increase has, in some ways, failed to pay off in higher…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Philanthropy Takes the Bully Pulpit
Charities hope that conference at White House stimulates giving Philanthropy will be in the national spotlight this week as the Clinton Administration holds the first White House conference ever to focus on charitable giving. President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton have invited 150 donors,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, are separated by more than the Rio Grande. While both border cities suffer from similar problems -- high unemployment and a lack of low-cost housing, for example -- the situation is especially dire in Juárez, where a typical family earns less than $40 a…