Cutbacks Take Toll on Programs to Improve Charity Operations
Last year’s decline in foundation assets helped shrink an already reduced pool of money for ALSO SEE:2002 Foundation Giving SurveyFoundation Assets SagHow The Chronicle‘s 2002 Foundation Survey Was Compiled2002 Foundation Giving: Related Charts organizations that conduct research on philanthropy or…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Nation’s largest grant makers see decline of 10 percentA declining stock market pulled ALSO SEE:2002 Foundation Giving SurveyCutbacks Take Toll on Programs to Improve Charity OperationsHow The Chronicle‘s 2002 Foundation Survey Was Compiled2002 Foundation Giving: Related Charts down the assets of…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Photograph by David GrossmanIt can be tough for the disabled to find and keep work. But in New York, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services has spent 67 years providing job help to people whose physical or mental abilities are limited or who are recovering from substance abuse. The organization helps such…
Florida Marlins Baseball Team Receives ‘Points of Light’ Award
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…
Wealthy Donors Tracked in Survey
A survey of its wealthy clients by the Citigroup Private Bank has found that the September 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath led 44 percent of those responding to the survey to increase or change the focus of their charitable giving. The remaining 56 percent said the events did not affect…
California Grants Focus on Two Cities
Despite record growth in their assets in the past decade, California foundations made more than half of their grants in only two localities, the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, according to a new report. The assets and giving of foundations in California tripled from 1991 to 1999, according to…
Role for Jewish Federations Will Shrink, Report Predicts
Annual fund-raising campaigns by Jewish federations are likely to play a less and less significant role in Jewish philanthropy as donors increase their giving to other Jewish organizations and to non-Jewish causes, according to a new report. Giving to the annual campaigns of Jewish federations has…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Oil Baron Pledges $150-Million to Earth-Sciences Programs at U. of Texas
A retired oil executive from Dallas has pledged $150-million to the University of Texas at Austin to endow studies in earth sciences. When the gift is made, it will be one of the largest ever to a public university. John A. Jackson, 88, who founded the Katie Petroleum Company, said he would…
By Laura Hruby
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U. of Kansas Receives $10-Million; Other Large Gifts
Two education institutions have received big gifts: Charley W. Oswald, of Edina, Minn., has given $10-million to the Kansas University Endowment Association. Mr. Oswald, the former chairman of National Computer Systems, in Eden Prairie, Minn., now part of NCS Pearson, designated $6-million of his…
Borderless Giving Crucial to Solving Global Strife, Experts Say
Palo Alto, Calif. The world’s most crucial problems require a strong international response from philanthropic institutions, several speakers suggested at a conference here this month. And last September’s deadly attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center highlighted the potential stakes if…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Donors Increasingly Use Legal Contracts to Stipulate Demands on Charities
More and more donors not only want control over the gifts they make to charity, legal and ALSO SEE:Ties That Bind fund-raising experts say, but they also are demanding that the terms of that control be put in binding, sometimes exhaustive, contracts. The written agreements often contain a host of…
By Debra E. Blum
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More donors specify terms for their gifts to charityA $20-million gift to a university for a new student center last year came with a 12-page contract. ALSO SEE:Donors Increasingly Use Legal Contracts to Stipulate Demands on Charities The agreement gave the donors, a New York couple, the right to…
By Debra E. Blum
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Photograph by Dean HesseAfter waves hurled James Shepherd onto the ocean floor while he was body surfing off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, he found himself partially paralyzed at a Denver hospital instead of celebrating his recent college graduation on a trip around the world. He just wanted to be…
Connecting With Kids Through Art
A brush with breast cancer prompted Lisa Fitzhugh, 34, to leave a career in politics and start Arts Corps, a two-year-old organization that operates after-school arts programs in Seattle. While Ms. Fitzhugh was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation in 1999, she knew those treatments might mean she…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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