Stimulus Dollars Provide Welcome Lift and New Service Recruits to Lend a Hand
Seven new AmeriCorps participants will help a local United Way in South Carolina get the word out about adult-literacy services. Habitat for Humanity International expects to get 30 percent more helpers it will put to work transforming its mission from building new homes to weatherizing and…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Funds Will Help Support Groups Assisting Those in Dire Need
Charities that provide food and shelter have been facing greater demands for their services since the recession began, and many have struggled to cover their costs. Now the federal stimulus law is about to send organizations government aid to to pick up some of the tab. Congress provided…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Charities That Serve Homeless People Seek Long-Term Change
Marin County, Calif., just north of San Francisco, is among the most affluent areas in the nation. But even there, the protracted recession and foreclosure crisis present a pernicious problem: low-income families and individuals who lose a job and then find they are losing the roof over their head…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Health Clinics Stretch Hours and Services With New Federal Dollars
The collapse of the housing market in Loudoun County, Va., which had been a fast-growing suburb of Washington, has left many construction workers, real-estate agents, and landscapers without sufficient health insurance. A growing number of them are finding their way to the Loudoun Community Health…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundations Provide Support to Ensure Stimulus Funds Are Put to Good Use
As federal economic-stimulus money flows through states and cities, some foundations are making grants to ensure it is put to good use. One major effort is taking place in California, where the California HealthCare Foundation, in Oakland, is helping the cash-strapped state take advantage of its…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Seeking Federal Stimulus Dollars: Tips From Experts
Act quickly. Deadlines vary, but all require fast turnaround. Consider whether applying for money is a good use of your organization’s time. If your group has not received federal money before, it faces an uphill battle because the federal government is trying to get money out quickly. Calculate…
How Charities Can Learn About Stimulus Aid
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Site offers a state-by-state analysis of stimulus spending that will affect lowand moderate-income people.
Like many nonprofit executives, Robert B. Jones has been scouring the fine print of the economic-stimulus law that was enacted in February. The legislation provided about $575-billion in federal money for projects to pull the country out of recession by creating and saving jobs — and charities are…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Three decades ago, Terry Odendahl was in graduate school, studying cultural anthropology. “I had thought I would be going to exotic parts of the world, doing research, living among the native people, and learning about them,” she says. Then she read an article, “Up the Anthropologist — Perspectives…
By Marty Michaels
Contributor
Layoffs and Other Cutbacks at Charities
CARE (Atlanta) The international-aid group is trimming its work force in the United States by 15 percent. The cuts will affect roughly 60 to 75 people, most of whom work in the organization’s headquarters. J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles) The museum is cutting 205 jobs, 14 percent of its work…
American Rivers, Northwest Regional Office (Seattle): Appointed Brett Swift, former deputy director and current interim director, to be director. Arthritis Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Anne Stauton Adams, vice president of development at Friends of the World Food Program (Washington), to be…
The Internal Revenue Service has released an updated plan for the next several years that pledges a continuation of “focused oversight of the tax-exempt sector.” In its Strategic Plan 2009-2013, the IRS said that “the massive size of this sector requires us to provide more careful oversight and…
By Grant Williams
Contributor
Average Time Donated by Volunteers Worth $20.25 Per Hour in 2008, New Study Finds
The average monetary value of time donated by volunteers was $20.25 per hour in 2008, according to a new study by Independent Sector, in Washington, a coalition of major charities and foundations. The study also broke down the average dollar value of volunteer hours by state, and in Washington and…
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Average Time Donated by Volunteers Worth $20.25 Per Hour in 2008, New Study Finds
The average monetary value of time donated by volunteers was $20.25 per hour in 2008, according to a new study by Independent Sector, in Washington, a coalition of major charities and foundations. The study also broke down the average dollar value of volunteer hours by state, using 2007 figures,…
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Disabled. The Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (Arlington, Va.) has presented its Inclusion Champion Award to Ingrid M. Kanics, therapy director at Hattie Larlham…
Veteran Leader Brings Passion for Gay Causes to New Job
The first time Richard D. Burns and Urvashi Vaid met was in 1980. It was the first day of the semester at Northeastern University School of Law and Ms. Vaid was sitting in the law students’ lounge reading the Gay Community News when a person she describes as “this tall, kind of hippieish-looking…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor