Committee Says Donors Exaggerate Value of Artwork
The Internal Revenue Service has recalculated the value of hundreds of pieces of artwork for which deductions were claimed by taxpayers who donated them to charities or left them to heirs. As it has in the past, the advisory panel found that many people exaggerated the value of paintings and other…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Advertising Council (New York): Appointed George Perlov, senior vice president, to be executive vice president of research and innovation. American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (Leawood, Kan.): Appointed Craig Doane, chief development officer at the National Kidney Foundation, based in…
The IRS is reminding small charities and other nonprofit organizations that, beginning next year, they will have to file information annually with the tax agency. Charities and other tax-exempt organizations that have income of $25,000 or less per year must file the electronic notice, known as the…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Community service. Volvo Cars of North America (Rockleigh, N.J.) has presented its 2007 Volvo for Life Awards, which honor “unsung heroes” working to improve the…
A Former Police Chief Focuses on Preventing Social Ills
During nearly three decades as a police officer, Jerome K. Madden saw firsthand the toll ALSO SEE:TEXT: About Jerome K. Madden, Executive Director, Friends Program that social problems and crime took on young people. Now Mr. Madden, who spent the last five years of his law-enforcement career as…
By Scott Westcott
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The Face of Humanitarian Aid Around the World
Interaction, a coalition of 160 international aid groups, had an ambitious goal for a photography contest it just concluded: to capture the meaning of international relief and development in a single picture that would both transcend cultures and translate easily to an American audience. In past…
By Sue Hoye
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A Different Approach to Grant Making for Philanthropic Families
NEW BOOKS Legacy & Innovation: A Guidebook for Families on Social Change Philanthropy, by Stephanie Yang and Changemakers, looks at how family foundations can pursue social-justice work. In particular, the book focuses on ways for grant makers to provide “people in need with the means to solve…
By Anne W. Howard
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Helping Ex-Prisoners Find Work and Community Support
NEW BOOKS Call to Action: How Programs in Three Cities Responded to the Prisoner Reentry Crisis, by Paul VanDeCarr, details successful efforts in Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, and Washington to help recently released prisoners return to society. In the Jacksonville program, ex-prisoners helped build…
By Anne W. Howard
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Senator Expands Inquiries on Hospitals and Colleges
A powerful Republican senator has asked the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative arm, to examine how much free care and other services nonprofit hospitals provide to the regions in which they are located. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, of Iowa, said he is concerned that hospitals…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Charity Promotes Tax Fraud, Government Says
The Justice Department has sued the leader of the We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, charging that he has been using his nonprofit group to promote a tax-fraud scheme that has cost the federal government more than $21-million. The government alleges that Robert L. Schulz, of…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Nonprofit Groups Ask IRS to Increase Enforcement
A leading coalition of nonprofit organizations says the Internal Revenue Service isn’t paying enough attention to charities. Independent Sector, a Washington coalition of major charities and foundations, has written letters to the Congressional subcommittees that oversee IRS spending to say that…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Financing Technology Projects Is a Struggle, Charities Say
A year and a half after Katrina showed how vital technology is to nonprofit organizations’ survival, money to pay for those much-needed systems is still hard to come by, Melissa S. Flournoy, president of the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, in Baton Rouge, told participants at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
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A Bay Area social-service group retools — and grooms leadersFor months after Clemence Casperian arrived here from the Philippines in 1989, she and her husband, a taxi driver, scraped to get by. They lived in a tiny apartment in the middle of the hardscrabble Tenderloin district, and Ms. Casperian…
By Michael Anft
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has presented its 2007 Independent Schools Awards to individuals and…
Cleveland’s Community Fund Hires an Official With a Global View
By Nicole LewisA dozen years ago, George E. Delgado worked his way through a degree in German at the University of Vienna, in Austria, by guiding tourists around the city’s sights using one or another of the six languages he now speaks. In his job as director of international relations at the…
By nicole lewis
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Defining the Ideal Leader for a Foundation
NEW BOOKS Competencies for Chief Executive Officers of Private Foundations, aims to clarify what the job requirements for a foundation’s chief executive should be. Often, the report finds, the high expectations for a CEO “are more akin to an anthology of hope than to a definition of role.” To that…
By Anne W. Howard
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