Cornell University Gets $100-Million; Other Gifts
Several institutions have received big gifts. * Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., has received $100-million from an anonymous donor to help pay for a campus make-over. Officials intend to renovate the university’s West Campus, which comprises residential and dining facilities for upperclass…
Education Grant Makers Told How to Learn: Listen to the Public
CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK If foundations want their grant dollars to improve the performance of the public schools, they need to listen more to parents and the public, Andy Plattner, a communications consultant, told an audience of foundation officers assembled here for the annual fall meeting of…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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New study heats up the debate over how much of their assets foundations can--or should--give away each year A new report by a Barnard College economist contends that foundations have not been giving enough away over the past two decades to merit the tax benefits they and their donors receive. Perry…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds
Americans are volunteering in record numbers, a new survey ALSO SEE:Who Donated Time and Money, 1993-98Household Giving to CharityComparisons of People Who Itemize Tax Deductions and Those Who Do NotViews on Charitable Organizations reports, although their charitable contributions have dipped…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Growing Ranks of Fund Raisers Haven’t Increased a Key Measure of Giving
The number of charity fund raisers has grown dramatically in ALSO SEE:Moving Giving off the DimePhilanthropy Takes the Bully PulpitBig Gifts Do Little to Change National Giving AveragesGiving by Americans, 1968-1998 recent years, but the increase has, in some ways, failed to pay off in higher…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Philanthropy Takes the Bully Pulpit
Charities hope that conference at White House stimulates giving Philanthropy will be in the national spotlight this week as the Clinton Administration holds the first White House conference ever to focus on charitable giving. President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton have invited 150 donors,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, are separated by more than the Rio Grande. While both border cities suffer from similar problems -- high unemployment and a lack of low-cost housing, for example -- the situation is especially dire in Juárez, where a typical family earns less than $40 a…
Can White House increase share of U.S. income that goes to charity? The Central Union Mission here opened its doors to the homeless and hungry in 1884, and over the years the charity has weathered the contrary ways of American donors. During the Great Depression, giving to Central Union rose.…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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White House Honors 10 New ‘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…
Millennium Program Seeks to Aid Kids
The International Youth Foundation hopes to raise $200-million for youth groups in just 60 minutes. In the same amount of time, Share Our Strength expects to raise at least $500,000 for programs to combat childhood hunger. Both organizations plan to meet their fund-raising goals through separate,…
Lilly: $50-Million for Education
The Lilly Endowment, in Indianapolis, has started a $50-million grants program for Indiana community foundations that undertake efforts to improve the education of people in the region they serve. Lilly Endowment leaders said they felt that community foundations were in a good position to gather…
Financier Pledges Millions for Schools
Eli Broad, chairman of the SunAmerica financial-services company, has set aside $100-million to strengthen the nation’s urban school districts. The money will be funneled into the Broad Foundation, which Mr. Broad established in Los Angeles last year. The schools program is in the formative stage,…
Survey Shows Views on Corporate Giving
Americans favor companies that spread their charitable dollars around to many causes and events rather than to just one or two, according to a new survey. The survey of about 1,000 people was commissioned by Hill and Knowlton’s strategic-philanthropy unit, which advises companies on giving, and was…
3 Universities Get Big Gifts; Other Recent Donations
Three universities have received big gifts: * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received an unrestricted bequest of $28.6-million from the estate of David Benjamin Clayton, of Bessemer, Ala. Mr. Clayton, a 1949 alumnus, owned several H&R Block franchises. Before he died in 1978,…
Philanthropist Puts His Faith in a New Law School — and Stirs Up Debate
Running a pizza-delivery empire taught Thomas S. Monaghan a lot more than just how to make dough. The founder and former chairman of Domino’s Pizza, who retired last year, says he spent considerable time defending his company and pizza-delivery drivers from thousands of lawsuits. ALSO…
By Domenica Marchetti
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Observers ask tough questions about the potential for success of the Gates Foundation’s $1-billion scholarship program The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s promise last month to give $1-billion over the next 20 years to help at least 20,000 minority students attend college is a landmark in…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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