Bonuses Earned by Top Executives in 2008
Related materials: Special report on nonprofit executive pay Top executive Bonus Compensation Bonus as a percentage
Richard C. Shadyac Sr., Health-Care Leader
Age at death: 80 Major philanthropy job: Served as chief executive of the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, the fund-raising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, from 1992 to 2005. How he made his mark: The actor Danny Thomas, who founded St. Jude, asked Mr. Shadyac, a…
By Caroline Bermudez
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Education. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation (Los Angeles) has presented the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education to the Aldine Independent School District (Tex.).…
Advice for Reaching Out to Male Volunteers
Recruiting and keeping male volunteers is challenging, but creative charity officials have developed many ways to reach out to them. Among them: Assign specific, finite tasks. “We have found that, as a general group, men tend to like volunteering that has a more concrete task,” says Gary Bagley,…
By Michelle Gienow
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Wanted: More Men Committing More Time to Charities
From the time he began tutoring his fellow fourth-graders at Philadelphia’s St. Francis of Assisi School, Anthony Radocaj has spent much of his nearly six decades volunteering. The retired insurance executive has taught kids to read, helped with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, and now heads a…
By Michelle Gienow
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Charities Worry Controversial Terror-Screening Plan Could Start Soon
Nonprofit leaders are worried that a controversial plan to vet international charities for terrorism ties could go into effect as early as this fall in a handful of countries, despite their pleas to scrap or modify the screening program. Known as the Partner Vetting System, the program has been a…
Hospitals Saw Endowments Drop 21% in 2008, Study Finds
Nonprofit hospitals and other health-care groups suffered an average drop of more than 20 percent in the value of their investments last year, a new study has found. The study was based on data from 143 endowed health-care charities; the 21.2 percent drop they reported was by far the worst result…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Charity Raises Money for Small Loans to Help Overseas Students
The Vittana Foundation, a new organization in Seattle, has created a Web site that allows people on the Internet to make smalls loans to help students in emerging countries, such as Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines, pay for college or vocational training. Microfinance institutions want to make…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New ‘FutureLab’ Site Encourages Discussion About Philanthropy in 2020
As part of an effort to spur a broad discussion about the future of the nonprofit world, Independent Sector has created a new Web site called FutureLab. The organization, which is a Washington association of about 600 charities and grant makers, is asking what philanthropy and nonprofit groups will…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Gates Chief Leads Foundation CEO’s in Pay
After paying its chief executive no salary for about a decade, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing its new leader almost $1-million a year, the largest compensation for a chief executive among the 49 private foundations in The Chronicle‘s survey. The new Gates leader, Jeffrey S.…
By Ian Wilhelm
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How Trustees Can Help: Ideas from a Board Chairman
With its programs supported by an annual appropriation from Congress, the nonprofit United States Institute of Peace has not historically depended on the largess of private donors. But that changed a few years ago, when the Washington think tank began to plan a new headquarters building. The group…
By Caroline Preston
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Report Analyzes Pay Trends of Charity CEOs
Thanks to persistently bigger raises over the past several years, chief executives at the largest nonprofit organizations now earn almost 10 times as much as leaders of small charities, a new study has found. Leaders of charities with budgets of $50-million or more earned a median salary of…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Charity Leaders Who Topped The Chronicle’s List
Arts-groups leaders, a university president, and a hospital chief are perched at the top of the pay scale among the nonprofit heads in The Chronicle‘s latest survey of chief-executive pay. James J. Mongan, chief executive of Partners HealthCare System, in Boston, earned the top spot in The…
New Chief Executives Offered Less Lucrative Pay Deals
Some charities are paying lower salaries to new chief executives than their predecessors earned, in part because of the weak economy. The American Heart Association was in final negotiations with its new chief executive, Nancy Brown, last fall, when the stock market began its steep plunge and…
CEO Pay Grew Last Year, but a Slowdown Expected
Recession means the days of steady raises are likely over for the nation’s top nonprofit executives.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
A Few Charities Buck Layoff Trends by Hiring Workers, Creating Jobs
Share Our Strength, the Washington charity that fights hunger, has been particularly cautious about its expenses since the recession started. But this month, the group added two new positions to help with fund raising and marketing, one to build ties with companies and the other to seek big gifts…
By Caroline Preston
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