Charities’ Disclosure of Financial Information: Summary of IRS Proposal
Following are excerpts from rules the Internal Revenue Service has proposed to explain how charities must comply with a law that requires them to make it easy for the public to obtain copies of their informational tax returns. Charities must immediately provide copies of their three most recent tax…
New Rules for Charity Disclosure
IRS issues proposals to govern how charities must comply with law requiring wide access to tax returns A new law that will make it easier for the public to get information about charities’ finances has moved a big step closer to taking effect. The Internal Revenue Service has released proposed…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Non-Profit Campaigns That Won Direct-Marketing Awards
Direct Mail Silver Award World Vision 34834 Weyerhaeuser Way South, Federal Way, Wash. 98001 Title of program: Sponsor Bounceback Campaign Agency: Russ Reid Company Objective: To encourage people who “sponsor” needy children by making monthly donations to increase the amounts they give and to…
A Dozen Campaigns to Raise Money for Charity Win Honors
A dozen direct-marketing appeals to raise money for charities have won awards in the 68th Annual International Echo Awards competition sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association in New York. The winners, selected from among 941 entries from 32 different countries, were judged by more than 200…
South Dakota Report on Phone Solicitors
Telemarketing companies kept 71.3 per cent of the money they raised last year from South Dakotans in behalf of South Dakota charities, according to a new report from the State Attorney General’s Office. That is slightly more than the percentage they kept in 1995. The companies raised a total of…
Promise Keepers Changes Tactics
Promise Keepers, the Christian men’s evangelical group, has announced that it will no longer rely on the sale of tickets to its religious rallies to generate tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Instead, the group -- which encourages men from all walks of life to commit themselves to…
Yale and U. of Michigan Bring In Billions
Two capital campaigns that sought to raise more than a billion dollars each have reached record-breaking conclusions. Yale University announced earlier this month that it had raised $1.7-billion for its "... and for Yale” campaign, which began in May 1992 with a goal of $1.5-billion. And the…
Motorcyclists raise millions for non-profit causes -- and polish their image -- through pledge rides With the sun reflecting off their motorcycles’ freshly polished chrome, more than 600 bikers descended on this quiet resort community near Milwaukee one recent weekend. The telltale rumble of their…
By Paul Demko
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Chief of British University Is Appointed Top Executive of Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation has selected a British university leader and well-known agricultural ecologist to be its new president. Gordon Conway, who runs the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, will be the first non-American to head the 84-year-old foundation. The fund has assets of…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Community Funds See Assets Grow by 28%; More Than $2-Billion Raised in 1996
Gifts to community foundations jumped 14 per cent last year, to more than $2-billion, according to an annual survey by the Columbus Foundation in Ohio. The amount of money the foundations distributed to charities also went up, rising 13 per cent, to almost $1-billion. Meanwhile, assets of community…
By Paul Demko
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