Google Shares Map Software With Holocaust Museum
Believing that information and understanding are the first steps toward action, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google are using the Internet company’s mapping technology to educate the public about the crisis in Darfur. The museum has assembled photographs, data, and eyewitness…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Environmental Site Offers Donors ‘Stock’ Option
Reduce, reuse, recycle — and, now, retire. The Clean Air Conservancy plans to add a fourth R to the familiar three by allowing people to purchase “carbon credits” — stocks that regulate how much carbon dioxide companies emit — and donate them to a charitable fund that holds the stocks, essentially…
By Sam Kean
Contributor
Russian Lawmakers Attack American Charities
Russian legislators have accused the United States of using nongovernmental organizations to interfere in the country’s domestic affairs. The State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has unanimously passed a resolution condemning what it said were “unprecedented attempts” by the United States to…
By Bryon MacWilliams
Contributor
Bushes and Cheneys Provide Charitable-Giving Data
President Bush and Vice President Cheney and their wives have released information about their contributions to charities last year. The White House said that Mr. Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, gave $78,100 to churches and charitable organizations, a figure that represents 12 percent of their…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
A Nurse Midwife Ministers to Pregnant — and Often Troubled — Girls
At 6 a.m. the alarm goes off at Loral Patchen’s home ALSO SEE: TEXT BOX: About Loral Patchen, Executive Director, Teen Alliance for Prepared Parenting in the northwest quadrant of this city, but the first one out of bed is her husband, César Torres, who soon will bring his wife a fresh cup of…
By Mary E. Medland
Contributor
75 Foundations Honored for Outstanding Communications Materials
The Council on Foundations this week honored 75 foundations for creating outstanding annual and biennial reports, newsletters, public-information campaigns, special reports, and Web sites. The 23rd annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards — named for the council’s first executive director, who led the…
By Anne W. Howard
Contributor
Charities Face Trouble Keeping Volunteers and Attracting New Ones, Study Finds
Nonprofit groups face significant challenges ALSO SEE: TABLE: Volunteering in the United States in keeping their volunteers loyal and attracting new people to help their causes, according to a government study released last month. Of the 65.4 million adult Americans who volunteered in 2005, 20.9…
By MARTY MICHAELS
Contributor
Getting the right degree for an overseas career
Q: I am currently studying for a master’s degree in theology. I would like to develop a career in humanitarian work overseas, particularly in Africa, and would like to get on the right track to reach my goal. What master’s degree should I attain for this type of career? And whose advice should I…
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Humanitarian Groups Struggle With Challenges of Providing Aid
International aid groups have helped persuade the U.S. government that fighting global poverty should be considered a top foreign-policy goal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told nonprofit organizations gathered here. This year the State Department made “reducing widespread poverty” one of the…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Social Entrepreneurs Urged to Improve Business Skills
Carl J. Schramm, the head of one of the nation’s biggest foundations, challenged the 600 charity and business leaders gathered here late last month to wrestle with what it means to approach tough social problems in an entrepreneurial fashion — but also to recognize that social entrepreneurship…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
From Charity Watchdog to Charity CEO
Selection of the IRS head to lead the Red Cross draws both praise and criticism from nonprofit expertsThe American Red Cross’s decision to hire the head of the Internal Revenue Service as its next leader — after a year-long search — is drawing praise from many charity and government officials,…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Katrina Donations Raise Concern About IRA Gifts
A law that prompted an estimated $11-billion in charitable giving ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Mission to RebuildARTICLE: Grass-Roots Groups Vow Equitable Rebuilding of Ravaged New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina cost the U.S. Treasury more than $3-billion in tax revenue — far more than…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Grass-Roots Groups Vow Equitable Rebuilding of Ravaged New Orleans
Representatives of grass-roots and advocacy organizations that are helping ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Mission to RebuildARTICLE: Katrina Donations Raise Concerns About IRA Gifts people recover from the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita vowed at a meeting here last month to join forces to rally the…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Pastors vow to restore New Orleans’s damaged churchesShortly after the floods unleashed by Hurricane Katrina demolished ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grass-Roots Groups Vow Equitable Rebuilding of Ravaged New OrleansARTICLE: Katrina Donations Raise Concerns About IRA Gifts New Orleans, the Rev. C.T. Vivian…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications
INDEPENDENT, FAMILY, AND OPERATING FOUNDATIONS Assets More Than $250-Million Gold: Skoll Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.)
American Friends of Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in Beer Sheva and Ashdod (New York): Appointed Joshua Karlin, director of development and endowment at the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island (Providence), to be executive vice president. American Jewish World Service (New York): Appointed…