Flexing Their Muscles for Charity
Female athletes and sports leagues use rising star power as a force for philanthropyA year after defeating Bobby Riggs in the highly publicized 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” ALSO SEE:The Philanthropic Causes of Tennis and Golf StarsMatching Sports Celebrities With Causes Can Itself Be an ExerciseHow…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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15-Year-Old Volunteer 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…
Unicef Gets Big Art Donation; Other Gifts
The United Nations Children’s Fund, or Unicef, has received a bequest of artworks worth an estimated $40-million. Jeanne Gaffé, who died last year, donated a collection of 25 paintings and sculptures, including works by Braque, Léger, Miró, Magritte, Picasso, and Renoir, to benefit the children’s…
Seven Foundations Band Together to Fight Poverty in Rural America
Seven U.S. foundations have joined forces to combat rural poverty through a new organization called the National Rural Funders Collaborative. The funds plan to increase the investment capital available to residents of rural areas, support the creation of so-called living-wage jobs, and improve…
By Laura Hruby
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Couple’s crusade for moral integrity in philanthropy wins praise from many -- and ruffles feathers of someCharities that get money from the Everett Foundation, in New York City, need to be prepared for the strings that come attached. Those strings are attached to Edith and Henry Everett, the…
By Haim Watzman
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Reinventing Philanthropy on the Right
Changes spur debate over future of conservative foundationsThe conservative philanthropy movement is undergoing a major change in leadership. Two chief executives of wealthy conservative foundations have left their posts, while the foundation that bankrolled many of the nation’s key conservative…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Feeding the hungry is one of the oldest missions in the charity world. But a growing number of nonprofit groups are also finding ways to fill more than stomachs while serving meals to those too poor to feed themselves. Take Chicago’s Kids Cafe program, for example. While serving 500 schoolchildren…
Project That Gives Handmade Blankets to the Poor Among New ‘Points of Light’
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…
$20-Million to Emory U. for Lung Center; Other Gifts
Emory University, in Atlanta, will receive $20-million over five years from Andrew J. McKelvey, founder of a job-recruitment company, to create a lung-transplant center. The gift will endow a professorship in lung-transplant medicine, establish a research fund to support five or more new faculty…
Charities Might Become Major Beneficiaries of Settlement in Vitamin Price-Fixing Case
Charities in New York will soon become the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in fines paid by international vitamin companies found to have engaged in price fixing, and charities in other states may get similar windfalls. ALSO SEE: Funds Available From Vitamin Settlement Twenty-one states, as…
By Ian Wilhelm
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How The Chronicle Calculated Generosity of State Residents
By HARVY LIPMANFiguring out how residents of one state compare in generosity with those of another is a complicated task because comprehensive data are not available. For its analysis, The Chronicle used data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income Bulletin for spring 2001,…
By Harvy Lipman
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Foundations Are Spending More to Fight AIDS, Study Finds
After a three-year decline, the amount of money grant makers devoted to AIDS-related projects increased from $28.3-million in 1998 to $40.7-million in 1999, according to a new report. ALSO SEE:Amount Grant Makers Provided to AIDS Programs Using Foundation Center data, Funders Concerned About AIDS,…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Marketing Welfare: What Charities Should Do to Influence Public Policies
With Congress planning to reshape welfare laws next year, nonprofit groups need to develop a “social marketing strategy” similar to what corporations use when they promote a new product, says Michael Laracy, senior associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in Baltimore. ALSO SEE:Weighing In on…
By Michael Anft
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A Determined Couple Promotes Matrimony as the Solution to End Poverty
Potomac, Md. On a bit of a whim, Michael and Harriet McManus once spent a weekend at a conference in Connecticut designed to strengthen marriages. Already together for 10 years and seemingly happy, the McManuses hardly wore the look of a couple in need of help. Or so thought Michael. ALSO…
By Michael Anft
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