New Site Offers Online Mapping
A pair of organizations in Boston have teamed up to create an interactive Web site that allows users to merge statistical information about cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts with mapping software. The site — the MetroBoston Data Common — is a collaboration between the Metropolitan Area…
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Arts Foundation Revamps Grants Process
Switching from slides to electronic images has helped the New York Foundation for the Arts save money and improve its grant-making review process. The foundation awards grants of $7,000 apiece to roughly 120 visual, literary, or performing artists in New York annually. Until last year, visual…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Makes Web Video Accessible to More People
The migration of television programs, movies, and other video content to the Internet marks the newest challenge to a nonprofit organization that has worked for more than three decades to make broadcast media accessible to people with disabilities. Thirty-five years ago, WGBH, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Corporate philanthropy. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (New York) has presented its Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards, which honor companies…
An organization seeks to improve leadership prospects for women at Jewish charitiesCindy Greenberg was 21 when she started working for charities that serve Jewish people and causes. Now 32 and director of the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, she says she has…
By Darlene M. Siska
Contributor
Topic of Aging Gets New Look With the Support of Foundations
A new series that aims to portray aging in a positive way will make its debut on public television in ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Charity’s Mature VisionARTICLE: How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?ARTICLE: Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the ‘We Generation’ June,…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the ‘We Generation’
Few people think more about the aging of America than William D. Novelli. As chief executive of AARP, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Charity’s Mature VisionARTICLE: How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?ARTICLE: Topic of Aging Gets New Look With the Support of Foundations…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?
At the beginning of every nonprofit movement — whether it succeeds or fails — the ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Charity’s Mature VisionARTICLE: Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the ‘We Generation’ARTICLE: Topic of Aging Gets New Look With the Support of Foundations founders probably end up feeling like…
By Clint Wilkins
Contributor
A social-service group tailors its appeal to older employeesWhen the YMCA of Greater Rochester made a deal to run a wellness program for older people who are ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: How Will We Reach the ‘Tipping Point’ in a New Movement for Older Americans?ARTICLE: Turning the ‘Me Generation’ Into the…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Fannie Mae to Close Its Foundation, but Continue Supporting Charities
The Fannie Mae corporation has decided to shut down its foundation this spring as part of a reorganization of its business operations. Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored company created to establish a market for secondary mortgages, said it will close the fund April 30. A new Office of Community…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
All Kinds of Minds (Chapel Hill, N.C.): Appointed Mary-Dean Barringer, national director for the organization’s Schools Attuned Program, to be chief executive officer. She succeeds Mark Grayson, who will become president. This group offers programs for children who have academic difficulties.…
Following are summaries of recent reports by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. This private group reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The alliance does not approve or disapprove of charities, and urges potential donors…
The Internal Revenue Service has issued rules for charities that participate in tax shelters later deemed illegal. In Notice 2007-18, the tax agency explains which tax-exempt organizations must report their participation in such shelters to the Internal Revenue Service and what they must do with…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Updating a Program to Help Nonprofit Organizers Save
JOB MARKET Roberto Martinez is still in his 20s, but he has already got $8,000 in his retirement account — even ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Workers Fall Short in Retirement SavingsARTICLE: Tips to Help Nonprofit Employers Get Ready for New IRS Rules on Retirement Savings Plans though he has…
Tips to Help Nonprofit Employers Get Ready for New IRS Rules on Retirement Savings Plans
JOB MARKET Prodding workers into realizing the importance of saving for retirement used to be one of the most frustrating tasks ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Nonprofit Workers Fall Short in Retirement SavingsARTICLE:Updating a Program to Help Nonprofit Organizers Save for Marcia Brown, director of programs at…
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Children and youths. The National Child Labor Committee (New York) has announced the recipients of its 2007 Lewis Hine Awards, which recognize outstanding service in…