How The Chronicle Determined Each State’s Generosity Rating
By HARVY LIPMANComparing the relative generosity of residents of different parts of the country is a complicated ALSO SEE:Rise in Giving Tracks Growth in Americans’ Income, IRS Data ShowTax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by StateState Rankings of Charitable Deductions task because…
By Harvy Lipman
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Rise in Giving Tracks Growth in Americans’ Income, IRS Data Show
By HARVY LIPMANThe $10-billion rise in charitable giving from 1997 to 1998 reflects the growing incomes of Americans who itemized their tax returns rather than any increase in their generosity, ALSO SEE:Tax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by StateState Rankings of Charitable DeductionsHow…
By Harvy Lipman
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Giving Among Wealthy Detailed in 2 Studies
By THOMAS J. BILLITTERIWealthy technology executives gave 6 percent of their after-tax income to charity last year, ALSO SEE:Percentage of Wealthy Technology Executives Who Support Various Charitable Causes
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Center for Brain Study Gets $25-Million; Other Gifts
Several organizations have received big gifts. Bruce McCaw, a founder of McCaw Cellular Communications, and his wife, Jolene, have given $25-million to help establish a center in Seattle to study infant and early-childhood brain development. Scientists at the Talaris Research Institute will seek a…
A Sampling of Election-Related Foundation Grants
COMPILED BY JENNIFER MOORE AND GRANT WILLIAMSArca Foundation Campaign finance. To support a legal challenge to North Carolina’s campaign-finance ALSO SEE:Philanthropy and the Ballot BoxGOP Platform Endorses Charitable Efforts system: $30,000 to Democracy South (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Carnegie…
GOP Platform Endorses Charitable Efforts
By GRANT WILLIAMSThe Republican Party and its presidential nominee, Governor George W. Bush, are pledging to commit themselves to “aiding and encouraging the work of charitable and ALSO SEE:Philanthropy and the Ballot BoxA Sampling of Election-Related Foundation Grants faith-based organizations,”…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Photograph by Jennifer L. PavlovicHorseback riding in the Colorado Rockies. Dogsledding alongside the Great Lakes. Kayaking through Alaska’s fjords. These adventures are not just for fit, young travelers, according to Wilderness Inquiry, a non-profit group that gives people of all ages and physical…
Philanthropy and the Ballot Box
Grant makers try new ways to stir voter interest, ensure fair electionsFoundations have spent the past decade -- and millions of dollars -- trying to solve a nagging national problem: Americans’ growing apathy about the political process. But enthusiasm for projects to encourage people to cast…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Charity for Homeless Veterans Is Among ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton´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…
Study Analyzes Advocacy Support
Liberal non-profit groups in California are hampered by a lack of foundation support for their public-policy work, says a new report. The report, published by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog organization, is intended to be the first in a series of studies about grant…
3 Funds Change Focus of Grants
Three foundations -- the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, in New York, the Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland, in Baltimore, and the Thomas L. Conlan Education Foundation, in Cincinnati -- have each announced plans to change their grant-making strategies: Edna McConnell Clark, with roughly…
Companies’ Plans to Donate AIDS Drugs to Africa Draw Mixed Response
By DEBRA E. BLUMThree major pharmaceutical companies this month became the latest drug makers to pledge to donate millions of dollars worth of medicine, health services, and other support to countries in Africa and other regions hard hit by the AIDS pandemic. The pledges -- made separately by…
By Debra E. Blum
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San Diego Fund Receives $80-Million; Other Gifts
Several organizations have received big gifts. A Point Loma, Calif., woman has bequeathed $80-million to the San Diego Foundation. Jean Jessop Hervey, who died last year, attached no stipulations to the gift. Her late husband, James Edgar Hervey, a lawyer, had established a trust with the money he…
‘Perfect Storm’ author creates charity to help fishermen’s familiesGloucester, Mass. When Warner Bros. Studios blew into town last September to film scenes for this summer’s blockbuster movie, The Perfect Storm, they brought with them a $25,000 ALSO SEE:The Perfect Storm Foundation check for The…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Photograph by Paul Ladd/Ladd PhotographyNo child likes being reminded to take a bath or told that dinner has to be more than french fries. And all parents grow weary of nagging their youngsters to keep clean and to eat right. For families in the Houston area, help has arrived in the form of…