Minnesota Charity for Single Mothers Eyes Growth in Texas and Elsewhere
Communities that duplicate the Jeremiah Program, a charity in Minneapolis (with a St. Paul affiliate) that aids single mothers, will have to spend a lot: They will need $6-million to $8-million in start-up capital and will have to plan on a $1-million to $2-million annual operating budget,…
By Scott Russell
Contributor
Beating the Recession by Seizing Opportunities to Expand
For the past decade, Jeremiah Program, a charity in Minneapolis, has provided services such as transitional housing and job-readiness training to help single mothers with young children break the cycle of generational poverty. It is the kind of organization one would expect to shrink in a down…
By Scott Russell
Contributor
New on the Job: Kerry Sullivan, President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Background: Ms. Sullivan was previously senior vice president and national philanthropy executive at the foundation. Before that, she led Bank of America’s service helping wealthy people create philanthropic funds. Education: Earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross,…
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Vetting Charity Volunteers Can Help Smooth Relations
To help ensure harmonious relationships between a charity’s volunteers and its staff members, say nonprofit experts, it’s important to vet volunteers carefully. Interviewing prospective volunteers is a good place to gauge not only would-be helpers’ ambitions, but also their personalities. Some…
By MAUREEN WEST
Contributor
Volunteers Can Cause Friction With Employees
Staff members and unpaid volunteers in nonprofit organizations have traditionally been two quite separate tribes with different values, customs, and worldviews. They all lived peacefully together in casual times, but new economic and demographic realities are making staff-volunteer partnerships…
By MAUREEN WEST
Contributor
After Two Tough Years, New Points of Light Charity Emerges
When Michelle Nunn was just out of college in 1989, she became what she calls the “glorified intern-slash-executive director” of a volunteer organization in Atlanta that was created by a dozen people who chipped in $50 each. Today, Ms. Nunn presides over a nonprofit group with a $30-million-plus…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Innovative Ways to Cut Hassles and Make Volunteering More Appealing
The call to service does not always come through loud and clear. Despite good intentions, prospective volunteers have plenty of reasons for postponing: lack of time, the hassles of background checks, an inability to figure out how they can help solve the world’s problems, and the frustration of…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Conservation Stations Get Solar Power
The Wildlife Conservation Network is bringing sophisticated solar-power systems to scientists who study and protect endangered species in some of the most remote areas on earth — thanks to the efforts of a dedicated volunteer. Six years ago, Stephen Gold attended the Los Altos, Calif.,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Senate Bill Would Give Small Charities a Tax Credit to Offer Health Insurance
Small charities would receive a tax credit to help them provide health insurance to their employees, under a bill that the Senate Finance Committee was working on last week. Two other proposed provisions related to nonprofit work were not included in the measure under consideration: a move to limit…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Winning Federal Aid to Fight Poverty: Experts’ Advice
President Obama has proposed spending $10-million in 2010 to help nonprofit groups plan efforts similar to the Harlem Children’s Zone, a program that fights poverty by providing multiple sources of aid to families in a single neighborhood. United Neighborhood Centers of America, an umbrella group…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Can the Nonprofit World Handle a Flood of Helpers?
Every time Erica Wissolik tried to volunteer, she struck out. An AIDS clinic didn’t return her calls. A charity helping families displaced by the Balkan war gave her the cold shoulder. An employee at the Washington chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters told her the group didn’t need any white women.…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
AchieveMpls (Minneapolis): Appointed Susan Doherty, director of its Career and College Initiative, to be interim president and chief executive officer. Ms. Doherty succeeds Catherine Jordan, who has resigned to join the Leadership and Community Engagement Team at the Bush Foundation (St. Paul).…
Legacies: Frank Karel, Foundation Communications Pioneer
Frank Karel’s career paved the way for today’s philanthropy communication experts
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Chief Executives Who Earned $100,000 or More in Fringe Benefits in 2008
Related materials: Special report on nonprofit executive pay Chief executive Compensation Benefits Expense allowance Total fringe benefits Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Steven M. Altschuler $1,239,722 $1,131,560 $0 $1,131,560 Partners HealthCare System (Boston) James J. Mongan $2,729,076…
Organizations That Cut Chief Executive Compensation Due to the Recession
Related materials: Special report on nonprofit executive pay Top official’s pay in 2008 Percentage by which salary was cut How salary cuts and other personnel decisions were made at the organization American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (New York)* $355,350 15% Chief executive proposed cut for…
Related materials: Special report on nonprofit executive pay Campus Crusade for Christ International (Orlando, Fla.) Organization cut staff salaries but did not disclose details of the reductions. Council on Foundations (Washington) Organization gave all staff members a 2-percent cost-of-living…