Charities Must Focus on Long Haul, Author Writes
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Technology Bits: Foundation Center Adds Online Bookshelf
* The Foundation Center has added a new section to its Web site, the “Online Bookshelf,” which features abridged versions of some of the center’s books on non-profit management and foundations. The bookshelf also includes on-line quizzes that visitors can use to test their understanding of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Lobbying Guide Available On Line
Non-profit workers can now download a 158-page lobbying manual from the Internet. Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, a project of Independent Sector, in Washington, is making The Nonprofit Lobbying Guide available free on its Web site, as well as selling a print version. Written by the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Receive Awards for Innovative Ideas
The first annual Ericsson Internet Community Awards have recognized three non-profit organizations for their innovative technology ideas. The winners will each receive data-base software and tools from the Oracle Corporation and share $250,000 worth of technology assistance to carry out the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Grants Offered to Fight Millennium Bug
The Center for Y2K and Society plans to award between $200,000 and $500,000 in grants to non-profit organizations that are preparing for the social disruptions that may result from the year-2000 computer problem. The problem arises because much of the computer hardware and software still in use…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Closes Its Warehouse in Tennessee
The director of Feed the Children’s distribution warehouse in Nashville has resigned in the wake of a scandal that has forced the temporary closing of the facility. The actions came after local television station WTVF broadcast a report that showed the director, Steve Highfill, and other senior…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
High Court Won’t Consider Appeal in United Way Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by former United Way of America President William Aramony, who was convicted in 1995 and imprisoned for defrauding the non-profit organization. Mr. Aramony had challenged his seven-year prison sentence, arguing that it exceeds federal…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
New Philanthropic Organizations Created By Student-Loan Groups
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As student-loan groups shift status to for-profit, questions are raised Just as health causes have seen an infusion of grant dollars as a result of the conversion of non-profit hospitals ALSO SEE:New Philanthropic Organizations Created By Student-Loan Groups and health-insurance plans to for-profit…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The Bible on Money: ‘Honor the Lord With Your Wealth’
Scholars who have scoured the Bible searching for passages that deal with fund raising, personal money management, ALSO SEE:Raising Funds by the Good Book and other such topics estimate that 2,350 such verses are contained in the New and Old Testaments. Many Catholic and Protestant churches are…