Focus on the Family Retains Charity Status
The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that Focus on the Family will keep its tax-exempt status despite the public political stances taken by its chairman, James Dobson. News of the decision was released by the Colorado Springs religious organization itself, which received the government’s opinion…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Foundations Press Congress on Rules for Endowments
TAX WATCH Congress could change a tax law that has prompted many large foundations and universities to invest billions of dollars in overseas companies as a way to avoid facing large tax bills on hedge-fund income. Foundation leaders and tax lawyers urged Congress during a hearing this month to…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Teenage Fund Raiser Posts Notes From Darfur
Nick Anderson, a teenager in Conway, Mass., has used the Internet to help raise tens of thousands of dollars for humanitarian aid in Darfur. Now he’s using the medium to share what he learned when he visited the troubled region of Sudan as a youth ambassador for Oxfam America. During the last…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Company Plans Stock Offering
Convio, an Austin, Tex., company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit groups, plans to go public. The company filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of August announcing its intention to sell shares of common stock in an initial public offering. The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Finding a New Path: Advice From a Veteran Charity Leader
For 26 years, I led nonprofit organizations and helped them grow. I loved the executive leadership role. ALSO SEE: ARTICLE: Acting Their Age ARTICLE: Prize-Winning Charities Face Many Challenges as They Try to Grow BOOKS: Making the Transition: Books Recommended by Eric Stevens The challenge of…
By Eric Stevens
Contributor
Prize-Winning Charities Face Many Challenges as They Try to Grow
As a car salesman in New Hampshire, Robert L. Chambers saw firsthand how some in the auto industry took advantage ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Acting Their AgeARTICLE: Finding a New Path: Advice From a Veteran Charity Leader of low-income people. He grew so weary of watching colleagues gloat about offloading…
By Elizabeth Pope
Contributor
Five older nonprofit leaders are honored for working to solve social problems in innovative ways Five nonprofit leaders, ages 60 to 91, were named winners this month of the second annual Purpose ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Prize-Winning Charities Face Many Challenges as They Try to GrowARTICLE: Finding a New…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Congress Offers Assistance With Student-Loan Bills
By Suzanne PerrySome charity workers will not have to pay back all of their students loans under legislation passed by Congress this month. The provision — part of a package of measures to cut subsidies to student lenders and shift the money into student-aid programs — allows borrowers to erase…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Charity Concerns About Hiring Are Overstated, Survey Suggests
While many nonprofit leaders express serious concerns about their abililty to attract talented employees, most end up pleased with the people they hire, a new survey finds. Almost 9 in 10 nonprofit organizations that recruited employees for professional and administrative jobs during the past year…
By MARTY MICHAELS
Contributor
How The Chronicle’s Study of Compensation at Big Organizations Was Compiled
The Chronicle’s 15th annual salary survey presents compensation information for top officials ALSO SEE:DATA BASE: Executive Compensation SurveyARTICLE: Executive Pay Rises 4.6%ARTICLE: Bonuses for Top Nonprofit Officials Are Growing Quickly in Size at 298 charities and foundations in the United…
By Noelle Barton
Contributor
Bonuses for Top Nonprofit Officials Are Growing Quickly in Size
The amount of money the nation’s biggest nonprofit organizations paid in bonuses to their top executives ALSO SEE: DATA BASE: Executive Compensation Survey TABLE: Bonuses Earned by Top Executives in 2005 ARTICLE: Executive Pay Rises 4.6% ARTICLE: How The Chronicle’s Study of Compensation at Big…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Compensation growth for CEO’s outpaced inflation, survey findsCompensation for the leaders of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations rose at more than twice ALSO SEE: DATA BASE: Executive Compensation Survey TABLE: Chief Executives Who Received $100,000 or More in Fringe Benefits in 2006…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive
Employee 2006 compensation Columbia University (New York) David N. Silvers, Clinical Professor of Dermatology $4,837,877 Vanderbilt University (Nashville) William Spitz, Vice Chancellor, Investments* 2,970,611 New York University James Grifo, Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology 2,823,406…
Alliance for Excellent Education (Washington): Appointed Michael Wotorson, national education director at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore), to be director of community partnerships. American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles: Appointed Mickie H. Faris,…
New Group Works to Sort Out the Growing Field of Philanthropy Consultants
IN THE TRENCHES Just about anyone can call him or herself a consultant. And, as many nonprofit veterans can attest, just about anyone does. Ask Joanne B. Scanlan, who served for 22 years as an officer at the Council on Foundations, in Washington — where she was often required her to pass on advice…
By Darlene M. Siska
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) has presented its 2007 Access to Learning Award to the Northern Territory Library (Darwin, Australia). The…