Raising Funds by the Good Book
Churches use financial lessons from the Bible and see gifts rise Willow Creek Community Church, an evangelical congregation in South Barrington, Ill., has managed to buck fund-raising trends. ALSO SEE:The Bible on Money: ‘Honor the Lord With Your Wealth’ While giving to Protestant and Catholic…
By Holly Hall
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Winston Foundation to Close After 14 Years
The Winston Foundation for World Peace, in Washington, will shut down at the end of August after having given away nearly $15-million to international-security projects. The foundation had been phasing out its work over the past seven years, after the board decided to give away all its assets. “It…
White House Honors AIDS Educator and 14 Other Volunteers
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…
Doctor Bequeaths $12-Million to College in Mo.; Other Recent Donations
A Missouri college and a Minnesota scholarship program have received big gifts. * The College of the Ozarks, in Point Lookout, Mo., has received a bequest valued at $12-million from Joe T. McKibben, a retired surgeon. The donor had no ties to the institution, but was impressed by its policy of…
Where the Casey Foundation Will Focus Its New Programs
ALSO SEE:Casey Goes to Bat for Families Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping Kids The Annie E. Casey Foundation plans to spend more than $500-million over the next decade on a new program designed to transform poor neighborhoods. Following are the cities where the…
Gateses Double Size of Their Foundation by Making a $5-Billion Gift
The $5-billion gift of stock that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, ALSO SEE: The Nation’s 5 Wealthiest Foundations this month poured into their private foundation has made the William H. Gates Foundation one of the five wealthiest philanthropies in the nation. With assets of…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping Kids
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, one of the nation’s 30 largest foundations, was created by a Seattle man ALSO SEE:Casey Goes to Bat for FamiliesWhere the Casey Foundation Will Focus Its New Programs who dropped out of school and started a courier service to support his family. Of course, it didn’t…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Photograph by Oscar H. Izquierdo For 25 years, Ronald McDonald Houses from Philadelphia to New Zealand have provided a home base for families of seriously ill children undergoing treatment at nearby hospitals -- with the 200th Ronald McDonald House scheduled to open in Budapest later this summer.…
Casey Goes to Bat for Families
The Baltimore grant maker begins a bold effort to fight urban poverty Like many industrial cities, Philadelphia had been on the decline for decades, hemorrhaging jobs and population to its suburbs since World War II. ALSO SEE:Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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* The YMCA of the USA and a group of for-profit health clubs have each weighed in with their differing opinions of how the I.R.S. should view the intersection of charities and businesses. Last year Congress ordered the revenue service to review its standards to make sure that charities that run…
By Grant Williams
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