Groups Put Pressure on Foundations to Increase Their Grant Making
This fall, foundations will come under more pressure to increase the amount they give ALSO SEE:Making Her Point in PublicThe French American Charitable Trust as two prominent philanthropy organizations step up their efforts to call attention to the issue: * Next month the National Committee on…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
Contributor
Secretive donor’s daughter heads campaign to increase giving Charles F. Feeney, the Irish-American business entrepreneur, shook up the non-profit world ALSO SEE:Groups Put Pressure on Foundations to Increase Their Grant MakingThe French American Charitable TrustFROM THE ARCHIVES:2/06/97: A Donor’s…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
Contributor
Photograph by Rich Williams In 1997, a pair of donors -- a married couple who asked to be referred to as Old Bill and Mrs. Old Bill -- approached the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, in Wyoming, with an idea that would combine two big interests of local residents -- their love of the outdoors…
Top Leaders See Fatter Paychecks
5.7% rise in executive compensation in ’98 is double the growth rate of ’97 Compensation for top executives of major non-profit groups grew at nearly double the rate last year that it did in 1997, according to The Chronicle’s eighth annual compensation survey. The median rise in chief executives’…
On-Line Giving and Activism: What Donors Want
ALSO SEE: Charities Fail to Tap Internet’s Potential to Spur Action and Giving, Study Finds How Traditional Techniques Compare to the Internet Why Donors Want to Make Their Gifts via the Internet Percentage of donors To receive e-mail confirmation that gift was made 20% To help charities reduce…
Average Salaries at New York Non-Profit Groups in 1998
ALSO SEE: Pay at New York Non-Profit Groups Beats Inflation Associations Cultural institutions Educational
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…
The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed George Perlov, director of planning and research and vice-president, to be senior vice-president. American U. of Beirut (Lebanon): Appointed John A. Wilkinson, an education consultant based in New Haven, Conn., to be vice-president for development and…
Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Public Broadcasting
ALSO SEE: Results of The Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives at non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles. Chief executive and other highest-paid official Compensation Benefits Expense