Charities Tackle Emerging Questions in Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks
More than a month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, donations are continuing to pour in to disaster-relief organizations. More than $934-million has been raised by charitable organizations working on relief and recovery efforts, according to the latest…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Faltering Economy Slows Asset Growth at Community Foundations
As the nation’s economy slowed last year, net assets in community foundations ALSO SEE:Cultivating Philanthropy OverseasCommunity Funds Down Under Tackle Issues Facing Rural AreasCommunity Foundations Across Eastern Europe Advance ‘Step by Step’Community Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in…
By Harvy Lipman
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Community Foundations Across Eastern Europe Advance ‘Step by Step’
Bratislava, Slovakia Eight years ago Juraj Mesík, a young physician, went to the United States from ALSO SEE:Cultivating Philanthropy OverseasCommunity Funds Down Under Tackle Issues Facing Rural AreasCommunity Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in 2000Faltering Economy Slows Asset Growth at…
By Burton Bollag
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Community Funds Down Under Tackle Issues Facing Rural Areas
Australia’s Wilsons Promontory National Park is something to behold. ALSO SEE:Cultivating Philanthropy OverseasCommunity Foundations Across Eastern Europe Advance ‘Step by Step’Community Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in 2000Faltering Economy Slows Asset Growth at Community Foundations A…
By DAVID COHEN
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Being born deaf no longer means what it did just a decade ago. Because of great strides in the quality of inner-ear implants, the number of deaf children who join their hearing peers in regular schools is growing at an unprecedented rate. That means that most of the 160 hearing-impaired children…
Cultivating Philanthropy Overseas
Community funds tackle local problems on 5 continentsFrom Munich to Melbourne, Kobe to Kwa Zulu-Natal, community foundations ALSO SEE:Community Funds Down Under Tackle Issues Facing Rural AreasCommunity Foundations Across Eastern Europe Advance ‘Step by Step’U.S. Community Foundations’ Assets,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Big Pledges to 2 Universities; Other Gifts
Two universities have received large pledges: * The founder of the Robert Mondavi Winery and his wife have pledged $35-million to the University of California at Davis. Robert Mondavi and Margrit Biever Mondavi, a vice president at the winery, designated that $25-million of their gift be used to…
Briefly Noted: New $100-Million Program; Schwab Foundations Merge
A foundation formed in 1997 by Steve Case, chairman of AOL Time Warner, and his wife, Jean, plans to devote $100-million of its assets to a new program focused on using science and technology to improve medical research and treatment and public-health efforts. Richard Klausern, director of the…
Jones Fund to Split Into Three Units
Trustees of the W. Alton Jones Foundation have announced that they are dissolving the foundation and distributing its assets among three new charitable organizations that will be headed by members of the Jones family. In a letter to its grantees, the foundation said it would honor all of its…
Donor Withholds $60-Million of Gift
The Internet entrepreneur Jim Clark is withholding the balance of a $150-million pledge to create a biomedical center at Stanford University, citing his objection to the Bush administration’s policy on embryonic stem-cell research. Mr. Clark, founder of Netscape, said he would not donate the…
Programs to Educate Youngsters Among Recipients of ‘Points of Light’ Awards
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…
$40-Million to Purdue; Other Large Gifts
Two nonprofit groups have received multimillion-dollar gifts: * Purdue University has raised $40-million from two couples to build a center for nanotechnology, which involves creating tiny equipment by manipulating atoms and molecules. Michael Birck, chairman of Tellabs, a…
Charitable Giving in Britain Is on the Rise
Donors in Britain last year gave $8.4-billion to charity, as much as they gave in 1993, before ALSO SEE: Charitable Giving in Britain contributions slackened off in the mid-1990’s, according to a new report. But the percentage of Britons giving to charity is still just 67.5 percent, compared with…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Since 1888, Heartland Alliance has been providing housing, health care, and other social services to Chicago’s needy. Its staff of 535 works at 40 locations throughout the city, and it annually mobilizes more than 650 volunteers who contribute 44,500 hours of their time. Heartland provides a range…
Exhibit Honors Nature Conservancy
To celebrate its 50th anniversary this year, the Nature Conservancy asked 12 well-known photographers to create works for an exhibit that will travel around the nation and to Brazil and Japan. The photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Lee Friedlander, and William Wegman, were…