Google Finance Site Includes Charity Details
Information on nonprofit organizations can be found in some unlikely places. Visitors to Google Finance who enter the name of a national charity, such as the American National Red Cross, can in some cases pull up a page that provides a summary of the organization’s work and links to recent news…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Foundation Apologizes for Self-Promotion
Since this article went to press, GiveWell’s board has removed Holden Karnofsky as its executive director and board secretary. For more information, read The Chronicle’s update on the board’s actions. GiveWell promises to be the “world’s first completely transparent charitable grant maker” (The…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Contests Seek to Spur More Americans to Give
In its latest push to encourage philanthropy, the Case Foundation, in Washington, has started two online contests to give away $750,000. For the first, “America’s Giving Challenge,” the foundation joined with Parade magazine, a weekly newspaper insert, to grant $500,000. Participants must either…
By Sam Kean
Contributor
Tax Agency Plans Review of Charities on Numerous Fronts
Washington At a briefing to outline projects for 2008, officials at the Internal Revenue Service said the agency plans to scrutinize charities’ donor-advised funds, business practices, and political activities. The agency will also investigate the tax-exempt status of colleges and universities.…
By Sam Kean
Contributor
IRS Unveils Final Version of New Informational Tax Form for Charities
Washington The Internal Revenue Service is giving small charities and nonprofit hospitals a reprieve from ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Fund-Raising Costs and Marketing Deals Get New Attention in Congress having to complete the newly redesigned Form 990 informational tax form in the next tax year. The form,…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Charity devises Web tools for keeping tabs on CongressWashington When the Sunlight Foundation, an organization here that uses Web technology to expose the workings of Congress, decided it wanted to know how many members of the House of Representatives had used campaign money to hire their spouses,…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
AIDS Foundation of Chicago: Appointed Johnathon E. Briggs, an urban-affairs reporter at the Chicago Tribune, to be director of communications, and Loren Leidinger-Avila, field coordinator at CARE, based in Houston, to be director of development. Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (New York):…
Tips on how to land a public relations job for a nonprofit organization.
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By Sandy Asirvatham
Contributor
How do I start an organization that awards grants to disabled people?
Q. As a disabled person, I am becoming more and more convinced that there is no organized group that specializes in grants for disabled people. I want to start a foundation to address these needs. Can you give me some ideas on how to start this? A. Let’s start with the possibly erroneous premise of…
By Sandy Asirvatham
Contributor
Is there a Web site or publication dedicated purely to philanthropy in Britain?
Q. Is there a Web site or publication dedicated purely to philanthropy in Britain? A. If you’re seeking the official source, you’ll want to visit the Web site of the Charity Commission, the British cabinet office that supports, encourages, and regulates all charitable organizations in Britain. Your…
By Sandy Asirvatham
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: International. The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard U.'s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Cambridge, Mass.) has presented the 2007 Gleitsman International…
Seasoned Fund Raiser Trades Celebrity for New Challenge
Mitch Stoller’s career as a fund raiser nearly stalled before it got started. Two months after quitting his ALSO SEE: BIO: About Mitch Stoller, president of the Marrow Foundation elementary-school teaching job to work on fund-raising events for the Baltimore affiliate of the Easter Seals Society,…
A Teenager Shares His Love and Knowledge of Computers
My mom’s an engineer. When I was born, she quit her job and started teaching adult computer-education classes. She taught basic programming classes and she had books and manuals lying all
Religious Groups Denied State Aid in Court Ruling
The State of Iowa violated the Constitution by granting aid to an evangelical Christian rehabilitation program at a state prison, a federal appeals court ruled last week. The ruling mostly affirmed a lower court’s view, but the appeals panel said the lower court had gone too far in directing the…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Conservative Foundations Are Effective in Supporting School-Voucher Programs, Study Finds
NEW BOOKS Strategic Grantmaking: Foundations and the School Privatization Movement, by Rick Cohen, says that conservative foundations’ support of projects to promote school vouchers “is strategic philanthropy at its best.” School vouchers provide government money to families to be used for private…
By Anne W. Howard
Contributor
U.S. Government Must Step Up to Rebuild Education in Gulf Coast, According to Report
NEW BOOKS Education After Katrina: Time for a New Federal Response, argues that the government has not done enough to support education in the aftermath of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. The report looks at how the hurricanes affected elementary- and high-school students in…
By Anne W. Howard
Contributor