Few Charities Have Social-Media Policies, Survey Finds
Only one in five charities has a policy to govern social-networking, a Chronicle poll has found.
By HEATHER JOSLYN and PETER PANEPENTO
Laid-Off Charity Workers Face Tough Market and Career Compromises
Laid-off charities workers -- even those with years of experience -- face a tough market and career compromises.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Causes has removed from MySpace its popular application that allows people on social-networking sites to raise money for charities. The company cited a lack of activity on the site and a desire to focus its efforts on its Facebook application as reasons for the decision. The John D. and Catherine…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fortified-Rice Program Wins Award
The Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose, Calif., has presented its annual awards honoring the creative use of technology to benefit societies around the world. PATH, an international-aid organization in Seattle, won the health award for Ultra Rice, manufactured rice grains it developed that are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Housing Groups Get Software Help
Outdated technology is holding back housing organizations as they try to help borrowers caught in the foreclosure crisis apply for loan modifications, say officials at NeighborWorks America, a national network of more than 240 community-development groups. Some organizations lack simple technology,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Nonprofit Reality Ahead, Report Says
The nonprofit world isn’t going to simply bounce back a few years from now to the state it was in before the recession.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
As the Economy’s Pain Continues, More Charities Abolish Programs
In 2007, the House of Charity, a homeless shelter for men in Spokane, Wash., finally achieved a goal it had been after for years: It received enough money to keep its overnight shelter open during the summer. The new service was an immediate success, with all 109 beds filling up during many summer…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Children’s Charity Is Beset by Tumult and Family Feuding
Larry Jones, founder of Feed the Children, was fired as president last month by his organization’s board of directors.
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Social-Media Contests Bring In Donations and Enthusiastic Supporters
Somewhere on YouTube, there’s a video of a guy named Aaron biking 30 miles from downtown Washington to the suburbs and back in his underwear. Aaron isn’t an exhibitionist; he’s an enthusiastic volunteer for a nonprofit group called Atlas Service Corps. He promised to buy a pair of tight white…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
What Will Shape the Nonprofit World in 2010? Ideas From The Chronicle’s Twitter Followers
The Chronicle asked its followers on the social-networking Web site Twitter to suggest their ideas for the top trends facing nonprofit groups in 2010. Here are some of the ideas they offered: “2010 NP Trend? Lots of volunteer interest, but with in-kind donations down, we don’t have enough for the…
Volunteerism and national service are getting high-profile attention, with both President Obama and the first lady giving the issue top priority. ServiceNation, a coalition of community-service advocates, now counts more than 250 members — up from 105 a year ago. Next year brings a shift in the…
93% of Charities Feel Effects of Recession
Study shows tough economy is causing more pain for charities.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
American Near East Refugee Aid (Washington): Appointed Courtney Spellacy, major-gifts officer at ActionAid International (Washington), to be director of institutional giving. Atlanta Ballet: Appointed Arthur Jacobus, executive director of the Pilchuck Glass School (Seattle), to be executive…
Staff and Budget Cuts at Nonprofit Organizations: a Sampling
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (Memphis) The fund-raising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has eliminated 70 jobs, approximately 6 percent of its 1,175 employees. American Red Cross, Connecticut Blood Services Region (Farmington) The Connecticut blood-services branch of…
Mergers Announced by Charities
Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens plans to merge with Clearbrook, an Arlington Heights, Ill., organization. Both groups serve developmentally disabled children and adults. Children for Children, a New York organization that provides volunteer and educational programs for youths, has merged…
New Titles: Executive Director, New York City Ballet
Job held by: Katherine E. Brown Why the job was created: The New York City Ballet, which has a 2010 budget of about $60-million, and which endured layoffs and salary cuts earlier this year, created the executive director role to help “ensure the continued financial strength of the company for the…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor