Fraud Case Prompts Series of Seminars to Train Board Members in West Virginia
The State of West Virginia is teaming up with a nonprofit leadership-training group to offer a series of free, one-day seminars covering the financial, legal, and ethical responsibilities of charity board members. The move comes just weeks after the high-profile trial in federal district court of…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
A New Report Sheds Light on Nonprofit-Accountability Practices
Making some of the provisions of the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandatory for nonprofit organizations would ALSO SEE: Chart: Nonprofit Groups and Accountability Practices require substantial numbers of groups to alter their practices, says a new report. But imposing some other provisions on…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
How The Chronicle’s Survey of Pay at Big Nonprofit Groups Was Conducted
The Chronicle’s 14th annual salary survey presents compensation information for top officials at 332 charities and foundations in the United States. Most of the organizations included on the list appeared last year on the Philanthropy 400, The Chronicle’s ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Executive Compensation…
By Noelle Barton
Contributor
Top Nonprofit Executives See Healthy Pay Raises
Salaries increased by 4.8% in 2005, Chronicle survey finds; officers at hospital and arts groups topped the list of highest earnersThe median pay of leaders of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations rose faster than inflation last year, according to The Chronicle’s 14th annual survey of…
By Maria Di Mento and Alvin P. Sanoff
Grants to Help Charities Improve Operations Are on the Decline
Foundation grants to help charities improve the way they operate rose sharply from 1998 to 2002 and are now on the decline, according to a new report from the Human Interaction Research Institute, in Encino, Calif. In 2004, more than $5.9-billion in such grants were awarded, down from $6.5-billion…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive
Organization Employee 2005 compensation Columbia University (New York) David N. Silvers, Clinical Professor of Dermatology $3,615,334 New York University James Grifo, Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology $2,905,205 Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) Zev Rosenwaks, Professor of Medicine $2,849,000…
Abraham Lincoln Centre (Chicago): Appointed Kenneth G. Roberts, assistant to the president at the Chicago Urban League, to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Roberts succeeds Zirl S. Smith, who is retiring. This organization provides career-oriented and educational programs and services…
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…
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago): Appointed Lisa Yun Lee, director and co-founder of the Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council (Chicago), to be director. Albany County Opportunity (N.Y.): Appointed Theresa Grafflin, director of community development at the Commission on Economic…
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…
Charities are tapping the talents of disabled helpers to diversify the face of their volunteer work forceWhen Nancie Ozimkowski was attending a conference on disability issues in Hawaii back in March, she was ALSO SEE:Article: Tips for Managing Volunteers With Disabilities invited to join some…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
A Nonprofit Leader Builds His Encore Career
A recently retired headmaster contemplates his new life.
By Clint Wilkins
Contributor
Dedicated Crew Makes 1906 Steamboat Ship-Shape
In the winter of 1955, Electra Havemeyer Webb had the last Lake Champlain steamboat towed to the site of her new museum. Even ALSO SEE:Photo Gallery for a sugar heiress who was fast becoming known as a maverick collector, this was an unusual undertaking: The Shelburne Museum is two miles from the…
By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Fund raising. The Indiana U. Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis) has presented the 2006 Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fund Raising to…
A Veteran Arts Leader Returns to the Nashville Ballet
When Andrea Dillenburg, marketing director at the Nashville Ballet, followed her husband to his new job and moved to Atlanta in 1999, she figured she’d see Music City again only as a visitor. In the years that followed, Ms. Dillenburg, now 44, worked as a fund raiser at the Atlanta Symphony…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Animal Groups Merge Operations
The Humane Society of the United States and the Doris Day Animal League have merged. The two Washington animal-advocacy organizations have worked together on many projects in recent years, such as providing aid to pets after Hurricane Katrina and fighting the use of animals in testing household…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor