Giving in California Examined in Report
Residents of California give more money to charity and volunteer more time than do people elsewhere around the country, according to a new report published by the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. Nine out of ten California households report donating…
Stanford U., Idaho Fund Are Among Recipients of Big Gifts
Several organizations have received large gifts. * Lorry I. Lokey, founder of Business Wire, has given $20-million to Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., to build a research facility for the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry. The structure is expected to cost $50-million and…
Charity Wine Auctions Raise Record Amounts
There was a time when Community Health Clinic OLE, a charity that provides medical services ALSO SEE:A Crush of Charitable Activity to Napa County’s farmworkers and other low-income residents, operated a satellite office out of an old A&W Root Beer stand in remote Lake Berryessa. Twice a week in…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Photograph by Jim West In Monroe County, Mich., labor-union members have joined together with a local United Way to build ramps at the homes of disabled people. Building a ramp that makes it easy for disabled people to go in and out of their homes can cost as much as $5,000. Many families in the…
A Crush of Charitable Activity
Wine makers help variety of groups, local and global, perform good works Miljenko Grgich skipped this month’s Napa Valley Wine Auction, the annual three-day extravaganza in which well-to-do people from around the world spend barrels of cash to be wined and dined in a bucolic setting and then bid on…
By Domenica Marchetti
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A Crush of Charitable Activity
Wine makers help variety of groups, local and global, perform good works Miljenko Grgich skipped this month’s Napa Valley Wine Auction, the annual three-day extravaganza in which well-to-do people from around the world spend barrels of cash to be wined and dined in a bucolic setting and then bid on…
By Domenica Marchetti
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Giving Trends in the Midwest Analyzed
By HARVY LIPMAN Affluent residents of five Midwestern states are about as generous as most other well-off Americans ALSO SEE: Charitable Bequests in Five States, 1997 when it comes to charity, according to a new report by a national organization of fund raisers. In the first of what it expects to…
By Harvy Lipman
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Coke Pledges $50-Million for Minorities
The Coca-Cola Company has pledged to spend $50-million over the next five years to support non-profit organizations and causes that work to improve the lives of members of minority groups. The pledge is part of a larger, $1-billion program the company announced last month that is aimed at promoting…
Financier Gives $50-Million in Scholarships for Youths in New York City
Several institutions have received big gifts. * Theodore J. Forstmann, the financier, has given $50-million to the Children’s Scholarship Fund, in New York, to provide scholarships for poor kids in the city to attend parochial and private schools. Mr. Forstmann and John Walton established the fund…
California Teacher, Virginia Doctor 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…
The New Economy and Venture Philanthropy: Excerpts From a Report
Following are excerpts from “Venture Philanthropy: Landscape and Expectations,” a report prepared by Community Wealth Ventures for the Morino Institute. The full report is available on the institute’s Web site (http://www.youthsocialventures.org). A sea change in philanthropic giving, an…
Roberts Fund Puts Its Venture-Philanthropy Approach to the Test
Venture philanthropy, an approach that marries the methods of venture capitalism with the needs of the non-profit world, has generated a healthy following in recent years. ALSO SEE:Venturing a Bet on GivingThe New Economy and Venture Philanthropy: Excerpts From a Report Dozens of groups are using…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Photograph by Jesus Marquez At Houston Elementary in El Paso, the second- and third-grade students in Guadalupe Torres’s bilingual classes improve their English not by repeating textbook phrases but by putting on plays. The productions, which bring to life classic children’s stories, help students…
‘Investment’ grants are booming, but can they bring real change? In the three years since it was formed, Social Venture Partners has been a leader in the burgeoning field of “venture philanthropy.” It has raised $2.5-million from 250 donors -- most of ALSO SEE:Roberts Fund Puts Its…
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