Research Sabbatical Gives Charity Leaders Time to Pursue Fresh Ideas
Julian Huerta can’t imagine taking months off from his job at Foundation Communities, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Postcards From the EdgeARTICLE: Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit Leaders an Austin, Tex., charity that develops low-cost housing and provides services to homeless…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit Leaders
Following are organizations that provide sabbatical aid to nonprofit leaders The Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program, in Baltimore, supports sabbaticals for longtime activists ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Postcards From the EdgeARTICLE: Research Sabbatical Gives Charity Leaders Time to Pursue Fresh Ideas…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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Paid sabbaticals help frazzled nonprofit workers — and their organizations — regroupOn a three-month sabbatical from her position as head of an environmental organization, Diane Takvorian ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Some Organizations That Provide Sabbatical Aid to Nonprofit LeadersARTICLE: Research…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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A Big Makeover Coming for Charity Tax Form
Nonprofit groups may soon be required to provide the IRS with details on governance and managementWhen nonprofit officials and advisers get their first peek, expected this week, at the Internal ALSO SEE: ARTICLE: New Tax Form: Key Changes the IRS May Make Revenue Service’s overhaul of the primary…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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What are the best ways to market volunteering opportunities at my charity to college students?
Q: What are the best ways to market volunteering opportunities at my charity to college students? A: Start by approaching the heads of career-development centers at colleges in your area, says Mark Valli, president of New Jersey After 3, a nonprofit organization in New Brunswick that finances…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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What should a foundation do with unused funds?
If the foundation is a longtime or major supporter, a foundation may indeed be able to pressure a grantee into returning the funds.
Laying out the steps for starting a charity from scratch
Q: I am interested in starting a Christian nonprofit organization that assists the parents of children with disabilities, as well as focusing on foster and newly adopted children. I have a graduate degree in school psychology but have no experience in running an organization. What steps do I need…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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Colleges and universities offer new programs to help clerical leaders gain management skillsNo matter what their faith, leaders of religious organizations often find themselves managing dozens ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Advancing Nonprofit CareersARTICLE: Does Continuing Education Matter? What Headhunters…
By Sam Kean
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Does Continuing Education Matter? What Headhunters Think
Executive recruiters who help charities hire chief executives, fund raisers, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Advancing Nonprofit CareersARTICLE: A Religious Calling and other key employees have differing views about the certificate and graduate-degree programs for nonprofit leaders being offered by a growing…
By Holly Hall
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When Elizabeth W. Gerner began running the Simmons Family Foundation, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Does Continuing Education Matter? What Headhunters ThinkARTICLE: A Religious Calling a $20-million fund created by her grandparents, she felt at a disadvantage. She was just 23 and knew nothing about grant…
By Holly Hall
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Arts. The Herb Alpert Foundation (Los Angeles) has announced the recipients of its 2007 Alpert Award in the Arts, which recognizes achievement by artists in five fields.…
Leaving Katrina Behind for a New Effort to Aid Poor People
Sherece Y. West moved to Lafayette, La., in June 2005 to take over the leadership of the Carrier Foundation, ALSO SEE: TEXTBOX: About Sherece Y. West, President of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation a family fund that seeks to improve the lives of poor families in the southwestern part of the…
By nicole lewis
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A Journey to Protect America’s Coastline
Here’s the question that Stein Kretsinger and Robert Weinman are asking anyone who will listen as they travel by foot and kayak up America’s East Coast: ALSO SEE:SLIDESHOW: See photographs from the Beach Walk Project. What’s the best kind of structure to build on a barrier island? Their answer: A…
By Debra E. Blum
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Charity Ads Are Broadcast During Key Times, Study Finds
By Sam KeanMany charity advertisements play during key viewing and listening hours, a study by West Glen Communications, in New York, found. Only 32 percent of 120,048 television charity ads and 40 percent of 9,478 radio charity ads tracked in the study ran during the dead hours of the night. Even…
By Sam Kean
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Few Groups Monitor Marketing Results
By Peter Panepento Nearly two-thirds of charitable organizations do not keep track of the results of their marketing efforts and therefore have no way to know whether they are reaching the people they hope to influence, according to an online survey of 350 nonprofit communication leaders. The…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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‘Town & Country’: Power of Giving
Iman, the African-born supermodel and businesswoman, has turned her attention to helping African children and families who have AIDS, says the cover article in Town & Country’s June issue, which contains numerous articles and advice columns focused on the “power of giving.” Born in Somalia, Iman,…
By Nicole Lewis
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