Organizations Coordinating the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has gained the support of more than 1,000 organizations in more than 60 countries. A coordinator in each of those countries serves as a liaison with the international campaign. Below is a partial list of the country coordinators. The number in parentheses…
Save the Children Reaches Out to America’s Poor Kids
Save the Children Federation, which raises $81-million a year for antipoverty programs overseas, has announced a new $26-million effort to help poor kids in America. By 2001, the charity hopes to help 550,000 children across the country through its “Save the Children’s Web of Support for U.S.…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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At Cancer Center, Fund-Raising Legacy of Ex-Marine Won’t Fade Away
Mortimer H. Chute, senior vice-president for development at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center here, says that he learned a lot about how to run a big fund-raising operation from his days in the Marine Corps, when he was a 22-year-old first lieutenant leading a platoon of 50 men. ''You’re…
By Holly Hall
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Charities Continue to Struggle With Accounting Rules When Tallying Gifts
At first glance, WGBH Education Foundation appears to be a fund-raising success story. In 1996, the fund-raising arm of the Boston public-broadcasting station received $91.1-million, an increase of almost 160 per cent over the amount it raised in 1995. It ranks No. 72 on the Philanthropy 400 -- and…
By Dan Morris
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George Lucas’s Charitable Alliances
Artists Rights Foundation (Los Angeles): vice-president Joseph Campbell Foundation (San Anselmo, Cal.): member, Board of Advisors The Film Foundation (New York): member, Board of Directors George Lucas Educational Foundation (San Rafael, Cal.): founder and chairman University of Southern California…
At a Glance: The George Lucas Educational Foundation
History: Established in 1991 by the film maker George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movies. Purpose: Set up as an operating foundation, the organization gathers and distributes information designed to improve education. It also seeks to involve the general public in helping the nation’s schools,…
Through his foundation, ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas is promoting innovative ways to use technology in education George Lucas, the film maker who created the immensely successful Star Wars saga, is working on two visions simultaneously: one of an imaginary galaxy long ago and far, far away --…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Giving to Diana Fund Less Than First Reported
Donations to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund are adding up slower than first reported. Officials at Mischon de Reya in London, the law firm that is administering the fund, put the total as of last week at £12-million, or almost $20-million. Some early news reports had placed the value of…
Jewish Schooling Wins Big Support
Ten prominent Jewish philanthropists and business leaders have teamed up with the UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and AVI CHAI--A Philanthropic Foundation to create 25 to 30 new private Jewish day schools across the country. Each of the 12 members of the Partnership for…
Tobacco Funds to Pay for Disease Research
Four major tobacco companies have agreed to spend $300-million to create a non-profit group to study early detection and cure of diseases associated with smoking. The agreement was part of a $349-million settlement announced this month that ended a landmark class-action lawsuit over secondhand…