Tax Deductions for Charitable Giving, State by State
ALSO SEE: Residents of Utah Are the Most Generous of People Who Itemize State Rankings of Charitable Deductions by Taxpayers With Incomes of $100,000 to $200,000 State Rankings of Charitable Deductions by Taxpayers With Incomes of $200,000 or More How Chronicle Analyzed IRS Giving Data Number of…
White House Honors 13 ‘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…
$20-Million to Health Center; Other Gifts
Three organizations have received big gifts. * Thanassis and Marina Martinos, shipping and real-estate financiers in Athens, have given $20-million to the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology, in Cambridge, Mass., to establish a center for biomedical imaging. Scientists there…
Pew to Emphasize Cultural Policy
The Pew Charitable Trusts last week announced that it had revamped its arts grant making to focus on cultural policy in the United States. Over the next five years, Pew plans to devote about 40 per cent of its cultural grants to creating a network of research centers, advocacy organizations, and…
Duke Fund to Give $13-Million for Jazz
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in New York, has announced a new $13-million, five-year grants program to strengthen the position of jazz on the music scene. The grants will help artists finance the creation and performance of their work, and use television, radio, and the Internet to build…
Hewlett Creates $100-Million Fund
William Hewlett, co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, has created a $100-million foundation to be directed by 21 of his relatives -- children, grandchildren, and their spouses. The assets for the foundation came from Mr. Hewlett’s personal trust, not from the donor’s major philanthropy: the…
Emotional Scars, Deep Hatreds Complicate Task of Aid Charities in Kosovo
A soft-spoken and somber woman in this tiny village in western Kosovo had her life overturned by a massacre this summer that claimed the lives of 19 men -- including her husband. The woman, 36, is staying in her father-in-law’s house, dependent now upon her brother-in-law to support her and her two…
By THERESA AGOVINO
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Puerto Rico Community Foundation (Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico)
History: Established in 1985 with ALSO SEE:Building a Tradition of Giving $2-million from the Ford Foundation to stimulate philanthropy in Puerto Rico and to make grants to help the island deal with its social and economic problems. Areas of support: Makes grants in four areas: education, youth,…
Building a Tradition of Giving
Creative leader helps Puerto Rico Community Foundation take wing In her first months as a grant maker, Ethel Ríos de Betancourt ALSO SEE:Puerto Rico Community Foundation wore a baby’s pacifier around her neck wherever she went. Though she was facing tough challenges as a top official of the Puerto…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Tucked away in an apartment building in Jaffa, Israel, Friendship’s Way provides 50 poor youngsters with 15 hours of academic lessons each week, along with arts and athletic activities, hot meals, and medical care. What sets the charity’s work apart from other social-service programs is that it…
Puerto Rico Community Foundation (Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico)
History: Established in 1985 with ALSO SEE:Building a Tradition of Giving $2-million from the Ford Foundation to stimulate philanthropy in Puerto Rico and to make grants to help the island deal with its social and economic problems. Areas of support: Makes grants in four areas: education, youth,…
Keck to Give $25-Million for Research
The $1.5-billion W.M. Keck Foundation, in Los Angeles, has announced a new $25-million program designed to help young medical researchers investigate new ideas. The fund’s five-year Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Program was created to support scientists at the early stages of…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Bucknell U. Gets $11-Million for New Athletics Center; Other Donations
Three universities have announced big gifts. * Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pa., has received $11-million from the broker Kenneth G. Langone, and his wife, Elaine, to help construct a new athletics center. Mr. Langone earned his bachelor’s degree from the university in 1957. The Sands Point,…
New ‘Points of Light’ Honorees Include Photography Teacher
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…
SEC Issues Feasibility Report on Company-Giving Disclosure
The Securities and Exchange Commission has weighed in on a controversial legislative proposal that would require public companies to tell shareholders what charities the corporations support and to name the largest recipients. In a 39-page report sent privately to Rep. Paul Gillmor, who introduced…
By Debra E. Blum
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