Many medical professionals in Romania are skilled clinicians, but they often work in outmoded facilities and lack access to current medical information and technology. Since 1990, the Romanian Assistance Project has sent teams of American medical volunteers to help develop medical-training programs…
Numerous Organizations Help Filmmakers Deal With Financial Matters
Filmmakers who want to produce a documentary need more than an idea, ALSO SEE:Filmmaking Finds a Bigger NicheFilmmakers Say the Search for Money May Be Harder Than EverNew Fund at Andy Warhol Foundation to Benefit Struggling Artists a camera, and a good nose for money. In most cases, they also need…
By Debra E. Blum
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4 on Aid Mission Die in Albania
Three representatives of Refugees International were killed last month while on a mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the Balkans. David B. McCall and his wife, Penny McCall, both board members of Refugees International, were killed in an automobile accident in Albania. Also killed were…
McKnight Refocuses Human-Services Grant Making on Children, Families
The McKnight Foundation has refocused its human-services grant making on improving the lives of children, families, and their communities. Under guidelines still being developed, the foundation will judge proposals by how likely they are to benefit children in measurable ways and to strengthen…
Ford, Mott Team Up to Lower Tensions
Two major foundations have teamed up with six community-based foundations in a three-year program intended to help improve relations in six American cities between longtime residents and recent arrivals from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The Ford and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations have committed…
Soros Examines Money in Medicine
The Open Society Institute will spend $15-million over three years to fight what the philanthropist George Soros sees as the corrupting influence of money in medicine, Mr. Soros announced last month. A new grant-making program, called Medicine as a Profession, will bring together medical and…
Volunteers Honored by White House
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award. The awards, which are given to those who have done exemplary volunteer work, take their name from President Bush’s description of people who do community service…
City of Hope Receives $36-Million; Other Gifts
Several non-profit organizations have received big gifts. * The City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, in Duarte, Cal., has received $36-million from Irwin Helford to build a 144-bed hospital for cancer patients. Mr. Helford is chairman of Viking Office Products, in…
Charities Renew Efforts on Guns and Teen-Agers After Colorado Killings
The night after 14 students and a teacher were shot to death at a suburban Denver high school, Aricia LaFrance got no sleep. Like millions of people in Colorado and across the country, Ms. LaFrance, who runs a charity that helps pregnant teen-agers, was appalled by the emerging details of the…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Nobel laureate praises foundations for fighting racism but urges them to do more; endowment growth fuels payout worries Foundations have played a great role in fighting racism in the United States and abroad, but they need to do much more, 2,100 grant makers assembled here at the 50th annual…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Donors Who Helped Form Group to Aid Artists
Following are the foundations and individuals who have contributed a total of $5-million to the formation of Creative Capital, ALSO SEE:New Fund at Andy Warhol Foundation to Benefit Struggling Artists a New York organization that will provide financial and professional support to individual artists…
New Fund at Andy Warhol Foundation to Benefit Struggling Artists
Andy Warhol’s images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans have become so familiar ALSO SEE:Filmmaking Finds a Bigger NicheA Screen Test for CharitiesFilmmakers Say the Search for Money May Be Harder Than EverNumerous Organizations Help Filmmakers Deal With Financial MattersDonors Who Helped…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Filmmakers Say the Search for Money May Be Harder Than Ever
Jon H. Else, who won the Filmmakers’ Trophy at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, ALSO SEE:Filmmaking Finds a Bigger NicheA Screen Test for CharitiesNew Fund at Andy Warhol Foundation to Benefit Struggling ArtistsNumerous Organizations Help Filmmakers Deal With Financial Matters spent nine years…
By Debra E. Blum
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Documentary films gain favor as a way to raise public awareness A Story of Healing, a documentary about a California charity’s trip to Vietnam to provide free reconstructive surgery to children there, won an Academy Award last year. ALSO SEE:Filmmaking Finds a Bigger NicheFilmmakers Say the Search…
By Debra E. Blum
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Photograph by Bruce Laurance Ballet Hispanico, a New York dance company, has been creating its own form of music and motion for the past 29 years by mixing traditional Spanish dance moves, such as rapid-fire zapateado heel work, with classical ballet and jazz. The troupe of a dozen or so dancers…