Nonprofit Groups Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Lobby
In the course of doing research for a book on nonprofit organizations, I asked the director of a statewide ALSO SEE:Lobbying and Charities: a Quiz hospice organization if he ever tried to mobilize his group’s donors and supporters in behalf of bills before the legislature. The conversation went…
By Jeffrey M. Berry
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Group’s New Head Aims to Expand Reach of Female Journalists
Lisa Woll’s day jobs have mostly been at big nonprofit groups that operate on a national or international scale, but she has devoted her free time in the past decade to building a small charity to help impoverished women in Washington. Her newest day job combines both worlds. As head of the…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Poll Finds Holiday Shoppers Hope to Help Charities
Sixty percent of Americans say they plan to buy at least one product this holiday season from a company that promises to give a percentage of the purchase price to charity, compared with 58 percent who said they would do so in 2002. The poll -- commissioned by Cone, a Boston-based company that…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Evangelical Christians provide millions of dollars to help JewsEvery morning, right after she wakes up and before she eats breakfast, Ruth Dick, a devout Christian in Lake ALSO SEE:Fund-Raising Results at the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews Mary, Fla., dials a toll-free number and…
By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN
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To the Editor: Mark Rosenman is right that it is important for social-service organizations to give advocacy a high priority (“Why Social-Services Groups Must Mobilize,” Opinion, October 16). Perhaps even more important, all charities need to become more comfortable with engaging in lobbying as a…
A Sad Picture of Nonprofit Salaries
To the Editor: After reading countless six-to-eight-digit monetary figures and meaningless jargon regarding the rationalization for pensions, deferred-compensations, etc., at nonprofit organizations, I was disappointed by the underlying message in the article “Nonprofit CEO’s See Salaries Rise”…
A Clarification on Property Taxes
To the Editor: The Chronicle’s article, “Taxing Times for Charity,” (September 18) repeated a common misconception about the charitable property-tax exemption: “For decades, many states followed the lead of the federal government in bestowing tax exemptions on any organization recognized as a…
Beyond Reality: the Hollywood Treatment of Humanitarian Aid
The latest Angelina Jolie movie -- the action-romance Beyond Borders, in which she chases the handsome doctor of a humanitarian group from one desperate country to another -- is a textbook example of why the benefits of getting celebrities involved with charities must be weighed carefully against…
By Nick Cater
Contributor
Independent Sector Practiced Censorship, Plain and Simple
To the Editor: While Paul Light was troubled by what he called “allegations that Independent Sector censored Emmett Carson’s opinion piece on the accountability crisis” (Letters, October 16), I and others were very disturbed by the nature of Mr. Light’s defense of Independent Sector and its…
The New Politics of Philanthropy
The debate in the House of Representatives over the Charitable Giving Act of 2003 offered a rare spectacle: conservative Republican legislators quoting with enthusiasm research prepared by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a left-leaning philanthropy watchdog group. The specific…
By WILLIAM SCHAMBRA
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