Guide Profiles 1,000 Private Funds
Foundation Reporter 2000: Comprehensive Profiles & Giving Analyses of America’s Major Private Foundations, 31st Edition
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
New Internet Search Tool Focuses on Philanthropy
Internet users can take advantage of a new, specialized search engine to find information about non-profit organizations and philanthropy on the Web. The new site, PhilanthropySearch.com, lists Web sites run by non-profit organizations as well as Web sites that provide information or sell products…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Auctions for Kosovo Relief to Benefit Red Cross
Five Internet-auction companies are working together to support efforts to aid Kosovar refugees. Amazon.com Auctions (http://www.amazon.com), eBay (http://www.ebay.com), LiveBid.com (http://www.livebid.com), Up4Sale (http://www.up4sale.com), and Yahoo Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com) are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Report Calls for Aid to Increase Use of Technology
A group of non-profit technology leaders has issued a report on potential ways to improve the use of information technology by charities. The National Strategy for Nonprofit Technology, a network of 24 charity leaders, grant makers, and consultants, has been meeting for the past year to discuss how…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Single people flock to groups that mix good works and finding a date; for some charities, it’s a perfect match Forget singles bars and matchmaking services. A growing number of organizations for single people are being created to mix the idea of volunteer service with finding a date. Those…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Minnesota Sues Charity, Solicitors Over Telephone Appeals
The State of Minnesota has charged a Louisiana charity and its fund-raising company with using deceptive tactics to raise money through telephone appeals for terminally ill children. In the suit, Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch said that telephone solicitors for Gecko Communications, which…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Penn State Sets Its Sights on $1-Billion in Donations
The Pennsylvania State University, in University Park, has announced a campaign to raise $1-billion by June 30, 2003. ALSO SEE:Billion-Dollar Campaign Update That makes it the 13th American higher-education institution currently seeking $1-billion or more. All 24 branches of the university will…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Charities look for money in all the wrong places, experts say; fund raisers urged to seek new wealth, not old Many charities are spending too much time wooing the wrong donors for big gifts, two fund-raising experts said in a presentation here at the 36th annual conference of the National Society…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
4 on Aid Mission Die in Albania
Three representatives of Refugees International were killed last month while on a mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the Balkans. David B. McCall and his wife, Penny McCall, both board members of Refugees International, were killed in an automobile accident in Albania. Also killed were…
McKnight Refocuses Human-Services Grant Making on Children, Families
The McKnight Foundation has refocused its human-services grant making on improving the lives of children, families, and their communities. Under guidelines still being developed, the foundation will judge proposals by how likely they are to benefit children in measurable ways and to strengthen…