A Community Grant Maker Recruits Black Donors, Sparks Enthusiastic Support
The Washington Area Women’s Foundation has, in its nine years of operation, already raised more than ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report $11-million from thousands of donors throughout the metropolitan Washington area, dispersing their gifts to local…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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A Bay Area Health Charity Bridges Cultural Gap to Help New Immigrants
Five years ago, when officials at San Francisco’s Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report learned that Burmese refugees were starting to move to nearby Oakland in big numbers — many of them with HIV/AIDS — they…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Ford Foundation Seeks to Set Example for Grantees
A philanthropy leader speaks out on the importance of diversity within his organization, stressing themes ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report like fairness, opportunity, and effectiveness. While such calls to arms are commonplace in the nonprofit…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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A Housing Group Welcomes Low-Income Tenants
Good Old Lower East Side, a 30-year-old New York group that works to protect tenants, has long sought to ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report reflect the diversity of the neighborhood that it serves. But that is a challenge since this slice of…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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A Charity Empowers Young Leaders by Recruiting Them for Its Board
Antoine Bennett can still recall the very first meeting he attended as a new member of the Board of Directors ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report of YouthBuild USA, a charity with headquarters in Somerville, Mass., that provides education and…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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How five nonprofit organizations made progress on the road toward inclusion One way a nonprofit organization can extend its reach into the community it serves is by making ALSO SEE:ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report changes within its own walls. And the paths…
The nonprofit world’s ideal of inclusion is still a dream for many organizations Charities dedicated to the notion of making the world a better place — ALSO SEE: ARTICLES: Achieving Diversity at Nonprofit Organizations: a Special Report CHART: How Nonprofit CEO’s Compare With America’s Population…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Arts. Americans for the Arts (Washington) has announced the winners of its National Arts Awards, which recognize artists and supporters of the arts who show national…
A Foreign Correspondent Takes Over a Washington Think Tank
Steve Coll’s introduction to the button-down world of the think tank was tinged with a bit of glamour. Mr. Coll, ALSO SEE: BOX: About Steve Coll, President, New America Foundation a well-traveled journalist, won his second Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the…
By Michael Anft
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IRS Offers Filing Help to Small Charities
Nonprofit organizations with $25,000 or less in annual revenue now have a place to turn to as they seek help complying with a new federal paperwork rule. Starting in 2008, such groups will be required to file the new IRS Form 990-N informational return. The form asks basic questions and does not…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Donors Continue to Inflate Value of Vehicle Donations
The Treasury Department worries that too many taxpayers are continuing to overvalue the worth of cars or other vehicles they donate to charity. An audit released last month by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concluded that a law passed in 2004 that sought to stop donors from…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Congress Seeks to Extend IRA-Donation Option
Rep. Nick Lampson, Democrat of Texas, has taken a new tack in the campaign to persuade Congress to allow people to continue donating money from their individual retirement accounts to charities tax-free. Mr. Lampson has introduced the Charitable Tax Relief Act of 2007 — H.R. 3596 — which would make…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Report Looks at How Foundations and Charities Can Serve Black Males
NEW BOOKS Why We Can’t Wait: A Case for Philanthropic Action: Opportunities for Improving Life Outcomes for African-American Males, by Marcus J. Littles, Ryan Bowers, and Micah Gilmer, analyzes research, policies, and programs that affect black men and boys. The report is meant “to help open a…
By Anne W. Howard
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Discussing ‘Quick-Take’ Redevelopment Efforts
NEW BOOKS Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts, seeks to examine recent policy changes regarding eminent domain and community redevelopment. The report looks at “what impact these proposed changes might have on the development of affordable housing and mixed-income…
By Anne W. Howard
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Bits: Darwin, Australia, Library Wins Award From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Northern Territory Library, a regional library system in Darwin, Australia, has won the 2007 Access to Learning Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle, for its work bringing information technology to indigenous groups. The library system will receive $1-million from the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Advocacy Campaign Tries Out Blog Ads
President Bush’s veto this month of a children’s-health-insurance bill inspired one charity, Families USA, to try a new advocacy-campaign tactic — advertising on blogs. Families USA, an advocacy group in Washington that promotes high-quality, low-cost health care, took out ads on 14 primarily…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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