Guide Looks at Anti-Drug Strategies
Lessons from the Field: Profiling State Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems is a guide developed by the non-profit group Drug Strategies and financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help states evaluate trends in illicit-drug and alcohol use. The “field” of the title refers to eight…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Author Offers Advice on Running Special Events
Special Events: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Fund Raising
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Authors Advise Business Owners on Giving
Preserving the Legacy of a Family-Owned Business: A Psychology of Business Succession and Estate Planning
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Directory Profiles Corporate Givers
Corporate Giving Directory 2000: Comprehensive Profiles of America’s Major Corporate Foundations & Corporate Charitable Giving Programs, 21st Edition
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
An Urgent Treatise on the Role of Civil Society
Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
‘SmartMoney’: Fund Raising Enters Era of Extremes
Non-profit groups, anticipating a transfer of trillions of dollars from parents to their baby-boomer children, are becoming “all too willing to trample over donors, their heirs, one another, and anyone else who gets in the way” as they compete for a share of it, says SmartMoney magazine (October).…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
‘Forbes’: a Billionaire’s Giving Plan
Sidney Kimmel is a charity’s dream. With no family to provide for, the billionaire head of Jones Apparel Group, in New York, has no plans to leave an inheritance and is already working hard to give his entire fortune to worthy causes. Mr. Kimmel, 70, whose company includes the Jones New York and…
By Domenica Marchetti
Contributor
Workbook Issued in Spanish, Portuguese; Newsletter on Internet Resources
* The CompuMentor Year 2000 Workbook for Nonprofits is now available in Spanish and Portuguese. CompuMentor is a non-profit organization in San Francisco that matches volunteers who have computer skills with schools and non-profit groups in need of help. It also promises to answer via e-mail…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Form 990 Is Focus of New Web Site
Information on efforts to improve the accuracy of financial data that charities report to the Internal Revenue Service is available on a new Web site. The Quality 990 site features information on the Form 990 -- the informational tax return that charities with annual revenues of more than $25,000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
2 New Web Sites Serve Shoppers With a Conscience
Two new Web sites cater to consumers who want to buy socially and environmentally responsible products. Both plan to donate part of their proceeds to charity. EthicalShopper.com, a Los Angeles company, uses a detailed questionnaire to determine whether companies that want to sell products through…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor