Giving by Small Foundations Decreased in 2003, New Survey Finds
Members of the Association of Small Foundations increased the size of their assets by 13 percent last ALSO SEE: Small Foundations: The Causes They Support year, but donated a smaller percentage in grants than in 2002, a new survey reported. In 2003, 1,031 foundations reported giving away an average…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Gates Fund Gets 300 Requests a Day
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation receives about 300 unsolicited requests for money a day, but it strongly ALSO SEE:A View Inside the GatesGates Program in Botswana Offers Lessons on Fighting AIDS prefers to do its own research and then invite proposals from charities it believes fit its…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Gates Program in Botswana Offers Lessons on Fighting AIDS
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By Ian Wilhelm
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World’s wealthiest foundation steps up advocacy effortsSeattle Tucked away on a quiet side street next door to the Lake Union Autobody repair shop here, the unassuming ALSO SEE: Gates Program in Botswana Offers Lessons on Fighting AIDS Gates Fund Gets 300 Requests a Day Gates Grants: Where the…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Photograph by Duncan Garrett In Healdsburg, Calif., many of the young patients who have been seeking help from the Alliance Medical Center, a nonprofit health-care center that serves mostly low-income Latino families, are overweight. A few of the youngsters neared 200 pounds even before they became…
By Caroline Preston
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Big Businesses Expect to Increase Giving
Despite a slowly recovering economy, a new report says corporate giving is expected to increase this year, but only among larger companies. After examining information from 204 respondents that reported their 2004 giving, the report says corporations with philanthropy budgets of $50-million or more…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Company Giving Habits Influence Workers, Consumers, Two Studies Find
Two new surveys suggest that a corporation’s philanthropic efforts influence a majority of Americans’ business-related ALSO SEE: Corporate Good Work: How They Are Viewed by the Public decisions, including whether to accept a job offer. According to one survey, 72 percent of 2,169 respondents…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Boston-Area Jewish Schools Get $45-Million; Other Gifts
Several institutions have received large gifts: An anonymous group of families from the Boston metropolitan area has donated $45-million to Combined Jewish Philanthropies, in Boston, to improve educational programs at local Jewish day schools. The nonprofit organization will oversee the…
Civil-Liberties Group Rejects Grants With Antiterror Clauses
The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to turn down $1.15-million in grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations rather than accept antiterrorism clauses in the institutions’ grant agreements. “It is a sad day when two of this country’s most beloved and respected foundations feel they…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Charities and Foundations Issue Antiterrorism Principles
A group of nonprofit organizations has developed principles that it hopes the federal government will promote to help prevent charities and foundations from unwittingly providing money or services to terrorists. The coalition of more than two dozen organizations -- including the Council on…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Series of nonprofit-supported televised forums allows voters to trade views without trading barbsPoliticians and pollsters may have long ago decided that the presidential race in Connecticut was over, but try telling that to residents who squared off in New Haven this month in a nationally…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Alaskan’s crusade to improve health care is rewardedAnchorage
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Photograph by Glenn Robinson On Robert Wyland’s first trip to the beach, when he was 14, he saw a gray whale; inspired, he captured his impressions with a paintbrush. Today, the artist known only as Wyland has completed 91 marine-life murals in 70 cities worldwide, covering 64 million square feet…
By M.J. Prest
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