Museum Gets $10-Million; Other Gifts
The Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, in Pensacola, Fla., has received $10-million from Jack Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, in St. Louis. Mr. Taylor’s gift will help create the National Flight Academy, which will provide weeklong instruction programs to middle- and high-school students…
Survey Identifies Troubling Trends for Nonprofit Organizations
The percentage of Americans who have donated money to a nonprofit organization has reached its lowest level since pollsters first began measuring giving trends in the 1960s, according to a new survey. Slightly more than two-thirds of all adults -- 69 percent -- gave money to charity in the 12…
By Harvy Lipman
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Volunteer Arbitrators and Naval Air Station Among ‘Points of Light’ Recipients
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
How Americans Support Charities
Nearly 70 percent of all American households that donated in 2000 gave to religious organizations, according to a report released this month by Independent Sector, a coalition of charities and foundations. The average contribution to such groups was $1,358. The report, providing details on giving…
Improving Neighborhoods: Mistakes Grant Makers Often Make
Baltimore When Lucille Gorham peers out the front door of her row house, she sees crumbling ALSO SEE:Prescription for Well-Being vacant homes, needy kids, and corners where the local drug trade is plied -- examples of the crushing poverty found in her East Baltimore neighborhood, and in several…
By Michael Anft
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Efforts to improve health focus on helping neighborhoodsMarysville, Calif. As a blazing sun bears down on her on an early fall afternoon, a woman named Tong walks among rows of cilantro, mint, sugar cane, Chinese long beans, and some ALSO SEE:Improving Neighborhoods: Mistakes Grant Makers Often…
By Michael Anft
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Building Long-Term Friendships
Photograph by Michael McDermottYoungsters from troubled homes often languish because they have no one to look after them. But Duncan Campbell, founder and chairman of Friends of the Children, is determined to change that. The Portland, Ore., charity, born of Mr. Campbell’s own wrenching experience…
Lutheran Services Seeks to Raise Profile, Quietly
On a recent business trip, Jill A. Schumann, president of Lutheran Services in America, told the man ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Philanthropy 400 results from 1998-2002The Tide TurnsDoing the Numbers: How The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 Was CompiledHabitat for Humanity Seeks to Build Bigger DonorsFocus on…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Williams College Receives Anonymous Pledges Worth $22-Million; Other Gifts
Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass., has received pledges that total $22-million from two anonymous donors. The first pledge, $15-million, will support theater and dance performances and classes, endow the directorship of the dance program, and support the alumni fund. The second pledge,…
Medical-Professionals Groups Among Recent ‘Points of Light’ Recipients
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Back on Track: Program Helps Disabled Overcome Adversity Through Sports
Ed Clark may have lost the use of his legs, but he hasn’t lost his sense of ALSO SEE:Photo Gallery adventure. And, thanks to a nonprofit organization called Northeast Passage, he’s been able to pursue a passion for golf and hockey. Northeast Passage, based at the University of New Hampshire, in…
‘Genius’ grant raises hopes for earthquake-safety leaderBrian E. Tucker, one of 24 MacArthur Fellows named last month, traces his career path back to 1970, when a chance nocturnal encounter in a women’s bathroom at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in La Jolla, Calif., shook up his plans. Mr.…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Photograph by David ShermanA zigzag found in a picture book presents numerous opportunities for children. They can walk in a zigzag pattern, draw it, find the funny shape in the alphabet, and try to detect it in ordinary objects. In St. Paul, where more than 300 preschool youngsters are enrolled in…
U.Va. to Receive $114-Million; Other BigGifts
Two universities have received large donations: The University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, has received a bequest of $64-million and a $50-million trust, which will come to the university in 25 years, from David A. Harrison III, who died in June, and his late wife, Mary. The $64-million was…