Nurse Who Tendered Aid in Brazil Among Recent ‘Points of Light’ Honorees
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…
Big Gifts Benefit Education, Health Care, and the Arts; Other Donations
Several organizations have received big gifts. * An anonymous donor has given $12-million to Marlboro College, in Vermont. The benefactor designated $2-million to construct a wing for the library, and the remainder for endowment. The college, which enrolls 270 students, must raise half of the…
$150-Million Donated to Stanford University
Netscape founder James H. Clark announced last week that he had donated $150-million to Stanford University to construct a biomedical-engineering center. Mr. Clark -- who also established Silicon Graphics and Healtheon, a company designed to streamline health-care communications using the Internet…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Non-Profit Officials Admit Weaknesses in Leadership
Non-profit executives gathered here at the annual meeting of Independent Sector last week said they had not done a good job of providing leadership and being accountable to the public. The harsh self-criticism was revealed in an electronic poll of meeting participants, who included senior-ranking…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
Contributor
Study: Charitable Bequests Could Total $25-Trillion During Next 50 Years
Predicting a coming “golden age of philanthropy,” a pair of Boston College researchers say that charities could gain $6-trillion to $25-trillion in bequests over the next 50 years. John J. Havens and Paul G. Schervish estimate that $41-trillion to $136-trillion will change hands over the next half…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Clintons Vow to Strengthen Philanthropy
The first-ever White House conference on philanthropy lasted just three hours, but President and Mrs. Clinton, as well as many non-profit officials, hope to insure that the event has longer-lasting effects.
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Photograph by Gisele Wulfsohn/Impact Visuals In South Africa, home to one of the planet’s most virulent AIDS epidemics, more than 3.2 million people are infected with HIV, and new infections occur at a rate of more than 1,500 a day. That number includes many infants and children, whose infected…
Giving and Volunteering in America
ALSO SEE: Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds Household Giving to Charity Comparisons of People Who Itemize Tax Deductions and Those Who Do Not Views on Charitable Organizations WHO DONATED TIME AND MONEY, 1993-98 1993 1995 1998 Percentage who gave to charity…
Playing the Percentages: How Giving Rates Affect a Big Foudnation’s Endowment
ALSO SEE: Playing the Percentages Perspectives on the Percentage of Assets Distributed to Charitable Causes Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
ALSO SEE: Playing the Percentages How Giving Rates Affect a Big Foundation’s Endowment Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Moving Giving Off the Dime: Giving by Americans, 1968-1998
ALSO SEE: Moving Giving off the Dime Philanthropy Takes the Bully Pulpit Big Gifts Do Little to Change National Giving Averages Growing Ranks of Fund Raisers Haven’t Increased a Key Measure of Giving Copyright © 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Group Issues Standards for On-the-Job Giving
Following are new standards that must be followed by members of the National Alliance for Choice in Giving, a Washington association of more than 50 local and statewide federations that run on-the-job fund-raising campaigns. The alliance issued the standards, it said, to make sure all its…
2 Funds Join in $16-Million Effort to Aid Poor Californians
The California Endowment and the Rockefeller Foundation plan to spend a total of $16-million on a new grant-making program to improve the health of impoverished Californians by increasing their access to local and regional job opportunities. The program, California Works for Better Health, will…
Volunteers Honored With Points of Light Award
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…