Views on charity issues: Wants to make it easier for ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner faith-based organizations to receive federal money to pay for social services. Says charitable tax deductions should always be available. Opposes using federal money for the AmeriCorps national-service…
Views on charity issues: Says he wants to eliminate ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner the legal barriers that prevent religious groups from receiving government money for programs that deal with drug abuse, homelessness, youth-violence prevention, and many other social problems. Wants to…
Views on charity issues: Wants the federal government ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner to support non-profit organizations, including religious groups. Notes her endorsement, as head of the American Red Cross, of legislation to allow people who do not itemize deductions on their federal…
Views on charity issues: Would seek tax and other incentives ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner worth $8-billion in his first year as President to help charities and donors. The money would be used to: allow people who do not itemize deductions on their federal income-tax returns to write…
Views on charity issues: Wants non-profit groups -- what he terms “the civil sector” -- to step up their collaboration ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner with government, businesses, and individuals to solve the country’s most pressing problems. Says the federal government, for example,…
Views on charity issues: Wants to give donors ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner a double deduction on their federal income taxes for any amount they give to charity that exceeds 5 per cent of their incomes. Says such a “half tithe” deduction would encourage Americans to increase their…
Federal Charity Campaign Raises $206-Million
Federal workers last year donated $206.5-million to charities through the Combined Federal Campaign, the government’s annual workplace-giving drive. That was a $9.4-million rise -- an increase of nearly 5 per cent -- over the previous year, when the drive raised $197.1-million. Although donors are…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Controversy Over Shared Donor Lists Prompts Broadcast Agency to Revise Rules
Following is the text of new criteria on sharing donor lists ALSO SEE:The Donor Name GamePBS-List Debate: a Lot of Hot-Air Time that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has created for the television and radio stations it finances: I. Principles A bedrock principle of public broadcasting is our…
Use of lists by public broadcasters stirs debate on privacy protections The Heritage Foundation, in Washington, doesn’t tell its 205,000 donors that it ALSO SEE:Controversy Over Shared Donor Lists Prompts Broadcast Agency to Revise RulesPBS-List Debate: a Lot of Hot-Air Time routinely shares their…
By Anthony Giorgianni
Contributor
White House Honors 13 ‘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…