Clothing Company’s Giving Is ‘in the Bag’
Company: Coleccion Luna, a one-person handbag company in Atlanta. How it gives: The business donates handbags to CARE, which the charity gives to its supporters at meetings and fund-raising events. For example, CARE provided Coleccion Luna’s handbags to people who attended an event in Washington to…
Helping Kids Is Key for Baby-Food Company
Company: Happy Baby, a business in Brooklyn, N.Y., that sells organic and healthy baby food. It has eight full-time and 45 part-time employees. How it gives: For every baby meal it sells, the two-and-half-year old company donates five cents to Project Peanut Butter, a nonprofit group that fights…
Small Businesses and Charitable Giving
WHAT TYPE OF CHARITABLE GIVING DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION PROVIDE? Financial 66% Time 51% Services 41% Merchandise/products 39% Other 4%
Mike Lenhart, founder of an Atlanta charity for disabled athletes called Getting 2 Tri, says that until six months ago, he “didn’t even really understand the point of public relations.” But then the head of a local communications firm said she wanted to help build awareness of his organization — at…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Most Donors Rely on Peers When Choosing a Cause, Survey Finds
By Holly HallIn deciding which charities to support, many wealthy donors do not judge nonprofit organizations by how much they spend on overhead costs — despite the popularity of that measure among watchdog groups and others — a new survey has found. Interviews with 33 people who give away an…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Founder of Rural Health Clinic Is Among 25 Winners of ‘Genius’ Grants
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, has named 25 new MacArthur Fellows. The fellowships, commonly referred to as the “genius awards,” recognize individuals from wide-ranging disciplines who show creativity, originality, and the potential to make important contributions in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Financial Concerns Take Center Stage at Clinton Annual Gathering
By Ian WilhelmThe former president Bill Clinton called on philanthropists meeting here last week to keep giving to charitable projects despite the deep financial problems facing America and the world. At the opening of the three-day Clinton Global Initiative — a gathering of donors and others to…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
The Gateses and Howard Buffett Pledge $75-Million for Food Program
By Ian WilhelmThe Bill & Melinda Gates and the Howard G. Buffett Foundations last week pledged a total of $75-million to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and other impoverished areas sell their surplus crops to support anti-hunger efforts. The program, called Purchase for Progress, is designed to…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
‘Philanthrocapitalists’ examined in just-released book By Ian WilhelmAs a business journalist, Matthew Bishop says that during the last decade a curious topic repeatedly emerged in conversations he had with successful technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. “When I was writing…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
(Photograph by Jeb Kirschbaum/The Baltimore Sun) Kindergartners at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, in Baltimore, study the work of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet for art class. Fourth graders learn about both Meso-American shamans and Doctors without Borders for a unit on how medicine has evolved.…
By Cassie J. Moore
Contributor
Debra Pérez discovered a conundrum when she arrived at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2004 to head its efforts to support research into health disparities between whites and members of minority groups in the United States. Despite the Princeton, N.J., foundation’s commitment to improving the…
By EMAN QUOTAH
Contributor
Biomedical Institute Receives $400-Million
Eli and Edythe L. Broad have announced that they are pledging $400-million to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, in Cambridge, Mass., a biomedical-research center that is jointly run by Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Whitehead Institute for…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Campaigning for Charity: an Interview With Bill Clinton
In the almost eight years since he left the White House, the former president Bill Clinton has become a major force in the nonprofit world — and his philanthropic ambitions continue to grow. The William J. Clinton Foundation, in New York, has expanded from a single office in Harlem into a global…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Building Partnerships for Global Priorities
Next week, the former president Bill Clinton will gather world leaders, philanthropists, and celebrities for a meeting in Manhattan to discuss solutions to global problems — and potentially raise millions of dollars for charity. During the unusual three-day event, the former president asks each…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
(Photograph by Jessica McGowan, Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Images) Six years before Najah Aziz made the leap from her corporate career to begin full-time work as a hair stylist, she completed cosmetology school, where she participated in a class assignment to give free hair care to teenage…
By CANDIE JONES
Contributor
Five days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nonprofit leaders in Washington created a special fund to help people whose lives were devastated by American Airlines Flight No. 77’s crash into the Pentagon. It would be different from typical disaster-relief funds, they said. Instead…
By Eric Frazier
Contributor