Handbook on Using Investment Dollars to Create a Positive Social Effect
NEW BOOKS Philanthropy’s New Passing Gear: Mission-Related Investing: A Policy and Implementation Guide for Foundation Trustees
By Anne W. Howard
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Efforts to Screen Volunteers Fall Short, Report Says
Many social-service charities do not do enough to screen volunteers, exposing the people they serve to potential trouble and the organizations themselves to liability, a new report says. The report, released by the National Center for Victims of Crime, in Washington, was paid for by a grant from…
By Debra E. Blum
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International Charities Decry U.S. Plan to Examine Foreign Workers
An announcement by the U.S. government that it will probably move ahead on a plan to screen foreign-aid workers for terrorist ties has elicited protests from international charities, which say the program would hinder their work by stirring distrust among the people they serve. “Being seen as…
By Caroline Preston
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Vermont Poised to Recognize Businesses That Are Created to Offer Social Benefits
Vermont is poised to become the first state to officially recognize a new kind of business designed to allow charitable ventures to more easily attract foundation money and other kinds of private capital. Advocates of the new business structure — what they describe as “a for-profit with a nonprofit…
By Debra E. Blum
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Young Nonprofit Workers Seek to Build Leadership Opportunities
Chicago As nonprofit groups increasingly compete with business and government employers for young workers, many people in their 20s and 30s are pressing charities to improve salaries, offer greater opportunities for career development, and do more to promote the diversity of their work forces. As a…
By CANDIE JONES
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Food and Fuel Costs Hit U.S. Aid Groups Already Hurt by a Weakened Dollar
Charities that work overseas have been battered by a spate of recent economic troubles, including rising food and oil prices and the weakening dollar. Nonprofit leaders say they are pressed to meet growing needs, even as the costs of doing work balloon. Some charities have even been forced to scale…
By Caroline Preston
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Fight for Survival Revives New Orleans Neighborhood
By Nicole WallaceNot long after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding that devastated New Orleans, a city ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Rebuilding Block by BlockARTICLE: Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a Neighborhood planning commission recommended that the neighborhood of Broadmoor not be…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a Neighborhood
By Nicole WallaceWhen Patricia A. Jones looks at the neighborhood group she helped to create a little more than two years ago, she can’t believe how far it has come. The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association, or NENA, is leading ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Rebuilding Block by…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Neighborhood groups shine in New Orleans recovery effortNew Orleans On the second Wednesday of every month, the parking lot at 801 Harrison Avenue — a main ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Katrina’s Victims Pull Together to Rebuild a NeighborhoodARTICLE: Fight for Survival Revives New Orleans Neighborhood…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Winners of the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Foundation Communications
ALSO SEE:JUMP TO CATEGORY: Annual or Biennial Report Magazines and Periodicals Public Information Campaigns Special Reports Websites ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL REPORTS Independent, Family, and Operating Foundations, Assets More Than $250-Million Independent, Family, and Operating Foundations, Assets of…
Resources for Getting Involved in Nonprofit Work
Following are books, articles, organizations, and other helpful information for people getting involved in nonprofit work and organizations that want to do a better job of enlisting older people as employees and volunteers. National Research, Service, and Advocacy Organizations State and Local…
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Grant making. The Council on Foundations (Washington) has awarded its 2008 Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking to Linetta J. Gilbert, senior program…
Looking at Nonprofit Work in a New Way
Over the summer of 2006, as development director for the public-library foundation in Bozeman, Mont., I put the finishing touches on a $7-million capital campaign for a state-of-the-art public library. When the new library opened in the fall, it would be the first public green building in Montana.…
Nonprofit Groups Seek to Win Federal Support for Older Volunteers
Some nonprofit groups say new federal efforts are needed to entice the massive wave of baby boomers who are nearing traditional retirement age to work on solving the country’s social problems. But Congress — perhaps because it has been preoccupied with war, budget deficits, and presidential…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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States Seek to Tap Into Growing Resource: Older Volunteers
Arizona, long a magnet for retired people, has emerged as a leader among a growing number of states that are working to keep older Americans involved in meaningful work, lifelong learning, or volunteering. As legions of baby boomers near traditional retirement age, many states are moving to ensure…
By Elizabeth Pope
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IRS Issues Instructions for New Charity Tax Form
The Internal Revenue Service last week released the draft instructions for the new Form 990, the primary tax document that charities file each year with the federal government. Many charity leaders, lawyers, and accountants have been anticipating the new instructions, which are the key to…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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