A Veteran Fund Raiser Makes a Transition to Grant Maker
When Douglas Bitonti Stewart got his first job in fund raising, as an 18-year-old ALSO SEE: TEXTBOX: About Douglas Bitonti Stewart, Executive Director of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation conducting research on potential donors for Michigan State University’s capital campaign, he was…
By Anne W. Howard
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Report Studies Progress in U.S. Child-Welfare Systems
NEW BOOKS Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare, discusses efforts to decrease racial disparity in child-welfare systems across the United States. The publication quotes a 2004 Pew Commission report that indicated that, though minority children…
By Anne W. Howard
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Gay and Lesbian Charities Received $53-Million in 2005, Report Finds
NEW BOOKS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations: A Report by Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, reviews grants made to lesbian and gay causes in 2005. That year, foundations awarded $52.8-million — a record high — to support marriage rights, employment…
By Anne W. Howard
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Tax Agency Vows to Improve Checking of Charity-Terrorism Ties
The Internal Revenue Service promised to improve its efforts to check charities for possible ties to terrorists after a government report lambasted the tax agency’s ability to ferret out nefarious donors or groups. The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration said in a report…
By Ian Wilhelm
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IRS Investigates 350 Charities Over Charges of Improper Politicking
The Internal Revenue Service has started investigations into more than 350 nonprofit organizations for engaging in possible illegal political activities during the 2006 election cycle. But the IRS could soon face legal challenges from some of those organizations as it attempts to crack down on…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Charities’ Business Ventures Hard to Sustain, Study Finds
The hype surrounding social enterprises has fostered the idea that nonprofit groups can produce significant income by creating spinoff businesses. But a new report by the Seedco Policy Center in New York finds that most social-enterprise efforts fail to make money and that such ventures rarely, if…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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To promote networking for social causes, NetSquared has handed out $100,000 in awards to 21 people and organizations that use the Web for charitable projects. NetSquared — a project of TechSoup, which trains charities to use technology to further their missions — announced the award winners at an…
By Sam Kean
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Charity Uses Cellphones to Promote Exercise
While it doesn’t burn many calories, text messaging might soon play an important role in the battle of the bulge. America on the Move encourages people to take small steps toward improving their health by walking an extra 2,000 steps a day, roughly a mile, and cutting 100 calories — the equivalent…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Transition From ‘Golden Years’ to ‘Encore Careers’: a Book Preview
Following are excerpts from Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping…
Older People Provide Aid to Nursing-Home Residents
Madge Lynn says that walking into the Lexington, Ky., nursing home that she visits as part of her job is like ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career…
By Debra E. Blum
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Putting Older Americans to Work for Good Causes: Award Winners
Two sets of awards have been announced to honor organizations that put older Americans into volunteer ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of…
In Need of Help, Medical Center Offers Flexible Hours to Woo Older Workers
Six years ago, Darlene Stone, vice president of human resources for Leesburg Regional Medical Center, in ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second Careers
When Roger Forrester learned that many of the residents in his Arizona retirement community ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: In Need of Help, Medical Center Offers…
By Debra E. Blum
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Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public Parks
Michael McCormick learned about responsibility during his 42-year career printing Cleveland’s ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In Need of Help, Medical Center Offers…
By Debra E. Blum
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Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report Says
By Suzanne Perry Nonprofit groups lag significantly behind government agencies and businesses in their efforts to keep and ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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Later Life Is Ripe for Reinvention, Nonprofit Leader Asserts in New Book
Marc Freedman has emerged over ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Groups Lag in Recruiting Older Workers, Report SaysARTICLE: Older Workers Are a Growing Force in Managing Cleveland’s Public ParksARTICLE: Making a Second Career Out of Helping Others Find Second CareersARTICLE: In Need of Help, Medical…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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