Differences in Pay for Men and Women in Top Charity Jobs
ALSO SEE: Article: Pay Gap Narrows for Male and Female Nonprofit Executives, Study Finds Chief Executive Officer Budget Female Male Overall median More than $50-million $289,266 $363,335 $345,100 $25-million to $49.9-million $182,827 $219,151 $211,135 $10-million to $24.9-million $136,724 $166,282…
A children’s charity borrows a corporate tool to monitor its performanceKate Becker, a vice president at Kaboom, a Washington charity, helps oversee her charity’s efforts to build hundreds of playgrounds and recreational spaces each year. Helping her to manage and keep track of all those projects…
By Debra E. Blum
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Many recruiting ads for key nonprofit jobs turn off more candidates than they attract, experts say The Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville thought it was offering a dream fund-raising job, so when no qualified candidates answered its want ads for four months, officials were puzzled. After…
By Debra E. Blum
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Nonprofit executives are forming support groups to improve their career skills and battle isolation on the job A year ago, Ruth Ann Binder was struggling with her board of directors, worried about budget shortfalls, uncertain about her organization’s future, and, for the first time in her life,…
By Sue Hoye
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Charity leaders often find themselves walking a tightrope, struggling to carry out their social missions while grappling with the growing competition for contributions, high turnover among top staff members, and a dearth of the detailed performance data they need to make timely management decisions…
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Leadership. The Heinz Family Foundation (Pittsburgh) has announced the recipients of the 2006 Heinz Awards, which recognize exceptional leadership and accomplishments in…
Essays to Stir Discussion Among Progressive Charities and Foundations
NEW BOOKS State of Philanthropy 2006: Creating Dialogue for Tomorrow’s Movements, explores today’s “realities of the nonprofit and philanthropic sector” from a progressive perspective. In the first of 12 essays, David R. Jones, chief executive officer of the Community Service Society of New York,…
By Anne W. Howard
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Illinois Strips Hospital of Property-Tax Exemption
The State of Illinois last week upheld a 2003 decision stripping the Provena Covenant Medical Center, in Urbana, of its exemption from property taxes, a ruling that comes as Congress is examining whether to redefine how hospitals must behave to avoid paying taxes. Brian Hamer, the state’s director…
By Harvy Lipman
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Bits: CitizenSpeak Creator Wins Antonio Pizzigati Prize
By Nicole Wallace All six candidates for governor of Minnesota have agreed to participate in an online debate sponsored by the Blandin Foundation, in Grand Rapids, Minn., and E-Democracy.org, a nonprofit organization in Minneapolis that uses technology to try to increase civic engagement. The…
Greenpeace Among Winners of Internet Competition
By Nicole WallaceThe ePhilanthropy Foundation has presented its awards for excellence in nonprofit use of the Internet for fund raising and advocacy. Greenpeace International’s “No Whaling Virtual March” was honored as the campaign that best integrated online and offline activities. More than…
Site Compares Programs in Public-Interest Law
By Nicole WallaceProspective students can visit a new Web site to learn about — and compare — law schools’ public-interest offerings. The E-Guide to Public Service at America’s Law Schools provides information on 115 law schools. The information was compiled by Equal Justice Works, a Washington…
E-Mail Programs Undercount Who Opens Appeals
By Nicole WallaceMore people might be opening e-mail messages than charities think, a new study suggests. The proliferation of e-mail programs that give recipients the option of blocking images are probably a key reason that nonprofit groups have seen a decline in recent years in the percentage of…
Treasury Department Warns Charities to Avoid Aiding Terrorist Organizations
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released revised guidelines to help nonprofit groups prevent their charitable dollars from unwittingly being used to support terrorism and other violence. The federal government first issued the guidelines in 2002 but has revised them several times due to…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Pay Gap Narrows for Male and Female Nonprofit Executives, Study Finds
Female executives of nonprofit organizations earned less than their male counterparts last year, ALSO SEE:Article: Differences in Pay for Men and Women in Top Charity Jobs a new study has found, but the gap in pay has closed significantly in the past five years. The median compensation of male…
By Harvy Lipman
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California Reprimands J. Paul Getty Trust and Appoints an Independent Monitor
After spending more than a year investigating the J. Paul Getty Trust, California’s attorney general, Bill Lockyer, issued a report concluding that the organization’s trustees wrongly allowed the institution’s president to spend money on travel and other expenses. In addition, he chided the trust…
By Harvy Lipman
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The tax agency’s new approach sparks concern among charitiesThe Internal Revenue Service has a message for charity officials: Cross the line, and the odds are higher than ever that you’ll get caught. The agency has been increasing the number of nonprofit examinations it conducts ALSO SEE: Chart:…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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