Mergers Announced by Charities
Arundel Habitat for Humanity, in Arnold, Md., and Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity, in Baltimore have merged. Achieva, in Pittsburgh, has merged with The Arc of Westmoreland, in Greensburg, Pa. Both groups help mentally disabled people. Centro Nueva Creacion and Lutheran Settlement House, both in…
Staff and Budget Cuts at Nonprofit Organizations: a Sampling
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra The orchestra’s musicians have agreed to a 12.5 percent pay cut for the 2009-10 season (this updates a report in our May 21 issue). Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service (N.Y.) The human-services group is laying off 40 employees and eliminating a program that helps…
NEW ON THE JOB: Norman Rice, CEO, of the Seattle Foundation
Norman Rice, Seattle’s former mayor, has a new community role -- leading a major charitable organization.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Résumés Matter: What Nonprofit Employers Want to Know About Job Seekers
When the nonprofit research and education group Public Agenda, in New York, advertised for an entry-level communications manager in May, the response was staggering. More than 400 people applied for the position, including veteran reporters, television producers — even a former network bureau…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Sheila Zelenski, director of membership at the American Society for Quality (Milwaukee), to be vice president of member relations and knowledge management. Bentley U. (Waltham, Mass.): Appointed John W. Mosser, director of major gifts at…
American Lung Association of California (Oakland): Appointed Jane Warner, executive director of the American Diabetes Association of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be president and chief executive officer. American Tinnitus Association (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Michael P. Malusevic,…
Mergers Announced by Charities
Centro Latino de Chelsea (Mass.) and Concillo Hispano (Cambridge, Mass.) have merged to form Centro Latino Inc. The consolidated group will operate out of the Cambridge and Chelsea offices. Dynamy and Youth Opportunities Upheld, both in Worcester, Mass., have merged and will operate under the name…
Staff and Budget Cuts at Nonprofit Organizations: a Sampling
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Disabled. The HSC Foundation (Washington) has given its Advocates in Disability Award to Ryan J. Lamke (Arlington, Va.), a 24-year-old veteran who suffered brain…
Gary A. Tobin, Jewish Philanthropy Scholar
Age at death: 59. Major philanthropy job: Founder and president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, an independent think tank in San Francisco. How he made his mark: “A leading scholar of Jewish population and identity, he was an iconoclast whose studies routinely challenged the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Seattle Opera Sponsors Video ‘Confessions’ of Rookie Fan
When the curtain rises on the Seattle Opera’s production of the Ring Cycle next month, Cassidy Quinn Brettler will have a slightly different perspective than other audience members — one that she gained some 10 feet off the ground. The 19-year-old college student is the host of a video and blogging…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Service Maps Out Key Giving Trends
Grant makers seeking direction on where their money could make the biggest difference — or which geographic areas have been most overlooked — now have a virtual road map at their disposal. The Foundation Center has added a new service, Philanthropy In/Sight, that allows people to create custom…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
Cellphone Texts Become International-Aid Tool
Working with an African telecommunications company, Google and the Grameen Foundation have created a text-messaging service to assist rural Ugandans, who often live far away from markets and health clinics. Using the new service, farmers will be able to get weather forecasts, search a database of…
By NICOLE WALLACE and Ian Wilhelm
Advice for the Next Generation of Grant Makers
NEW BOOKS Wit and Wisdom
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
As executive director of Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun, a synagogue in River Hills, Wis., Bruce Ente provided health insurance for the organization’s three employees. But four years ago, those premiums cost the synagogue, which ran on an annual budget of $1.3-million, about $11,000 each month…
By Darlene M. Siska
Contributor
San Francisco Studies Nonprofit Efficiency
With San Francisco facing a budget gap of roughly $438-million this year, it seemed inevitable that nonprofit groups were likely to feel the pain of the government budget ax. But at the request of Mayor Gavin Newsom, the city attorney and the San Francisco Foundation brought together a group of…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor