Improving Nonprofit Operations: Expert Tips
Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Barbara D. Kibbe, ALSO SEE:Getting the Basics Right of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, outlining the key lessons the foundation has learned in more than 15 years of making grants to improve the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
Photograph by John EverettEvery other week at the Houston Area Women’s Center, mothers gather with their children for an art workshop taught by Noel Forman, an instructor at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During the 90-minute sessions, the center’s clients have the chance…
Grant makers seek effective ways to improve charities’ operationsA growing number of foundations are trying to become more effective at improving ALSO SEE:Improving Nonprofit Operations: Expert Tips the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. Most foundations still prefer to underwrite a…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Tree Planters, Orange-Picking Students Among Latest ‘Points of Light’ Honorees
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…
U. of North Carolina, Santa Clara U. Receive Big Donations; Other Gifts
Two universities have received large gifts: The University of North Carolina has received $25-million from an anonymous donor to study human genetics. The donation to the Michael Hooker Center for Proteomics will support an effort to catalog the proteins in human cells. Lorry I. Lokey, a…
$1-Billion Growth in Assets Reported at ‘Conversion’ Health Funds
By NICOLE LEWISFoundations formed when nonprofit hospitals and other health-care ALSO SEE: Assets of Health-Care “Conversion” Foundations providers converted to businesses saw their assets grow last year to more than $16.3-billion, nearly $1-billion more than the previous year, says a new report.…
By nicole lewis
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Playwright uses art, philanthropy to fight violence against womenWhen Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues, a play that focuses ALSO SEE: V-Day: At a Glance Helping Women Avoid Abuse: a Sampling of V-Day’s Grants on female sexuality, she never guessed that five years later it would have helped to…
By nicole lewis
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Twice a month, a conference room at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., becomes an oasis for relatives of young people being treated there for life-threatening illnesses. In the conference room, the Vital Signs Poetry Project sets up shop. The charity is the brainchild of Davi…
Optimist Club Among ‘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…
$100-Million Pledge to Faith-Based Program
By JANINE E. GUGLIELMINOThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last week pledged $100-million over the next seven years to its Faith in Action program, which supports religious groups that mobilize volunteers to provide social services. The money will enable the program to make 2,000 additional grants…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Medical Center in D.C. Receives Big Pledges; Other Gifts
Several institutions have received large gifts: Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, has received pledges of $25-million each from two local couples. Stephen A. Goldberg, founder of a management company in Washington that bears his name, and his wife, Diana, chair of the hospital…
Giving by U.S. Foundations Rose 18% in 2000, New Report Finds
By ZIYA SERDAR TUMGORENAmerican foundations increased their grant making by $4.3-billion last ALSO SEE:100 Largest Foundations by AssetsFoundation Giving Trends, 1999 year, according to a new report by the Foundation Center. Foundations last year gave an estimated $27.6-billion -- an 18.4 percent…
By Serdar Tumgoren
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Legal Expertise and Skills That Made a Big Difference: Some Case Studies
Following are excerpts from “Louder Than Words: Lawyers, Communities, ALSO SEE:Advocating Legal Aid to Charities and the Struggle for Justice,” a report by the Rockefeller Foundation that shows innovative strategies adopted by civil-rights lawyers in recent years.Mobilizing Sweatshop Workers to…
Advocating Legal Aid to Charities
Report urges increase in grants for lawyers upholding civil rightsGrant makers working to build strong community groups and eliminate racial, ALSO SEE:Legal Expertise and Skills That Made a Big Difference: Some Case Studies ethnic, and class discrimination could be more effective if they increased…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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