Architects and Charities Can Make Good Partners, Experts Say
By Nicole WallaceLess than a year out of architecture school, Bryan Bell decided to quit his job at an upscale firm in New York, ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources disillusioned by the feeling that only the wealthy and powerful had…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Rooftop Garden Offers Sanctuary to Hospital Patients
By Nicole WallaceThe Healing Garden has proven itself as a rooftop oasis at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in downtown Phoenix. Banner Good Samaritan ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources has done a lot to try to make its facility…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spaces Designed With Kids in Mind
A California charity seeks to meet the many needs and desires of its youthful clientele as it builds facilitiesThe last seven years have been a blur of planning meetings, architectural drawings, and construction crews for the ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design:…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Creating Comfort From Cold Concrete
By Nicole WallaceWhen Community Housing Partners, a charity in Christiansburg, Va., purchased the Woods at Yorktown apartment complex in ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources 2001, it recognized that it would take major renovations to make…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Innovative nursing facility uses architecture to give residents privacy, autonomy, and a place to call homeTupelo, Miss. As 10 o’clock approaches, James Johnson is still working on a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Aquarium Exhibit Lets Visitors Experience Life Under the Ocean
By Nicole WallaceThe fish came before the architects at the new Georgia Aquarium, which opened in Atlanta in November. At most new facilities, architectural companies are selected first, and the scientists and aquarium ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Design That Appeals to Kids of All Ages
By Nicole WallaceMister Rogers sparked some major changes in the neighborhood for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. In 1998, more people visited the museum’s exhibit on the popular children’s television program during its first ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities find that good design benefits the people they serveWhen R. Leslie Nichols leads training sessions to help officials think about how to design local Boys & Girls ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources Clubs, he often asks…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
An Emphasis on Communications Skills Can Help Charities Survive a Public-Image Crisis
IN THE TRENCHES By Kimberlee Roth The United Way in East Lansing, Mich., broke some bad news in 2003, news that quickly had the rumor mill churning some 45 miles away — in Washtenaw County, where one of the charity’s former staff members owned a horse farm. The East Lansing group reported that the…
By Kimberlee Roth
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Corporate giving. The Taproot Foundation (San Francisco) has given its 2006 Pro Bono Awards to three companies: — McGraw-Hill Companies (New York), for its Writers to…
New Leader Serves Up Change at James Beard Foundation
NEW ON THE JOBAs editor in chief of Family Circle, Susan Ungaro spent 11 years creating magazines that would appeal to millions of American women amid increasing competition for the time and attention of readers. In her new job as head of the James Beard Foundation, she faces another challenging…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Congress Mulling Disclosure Rules for Lawmakers’ Charities
By Harvy LipmanThe House of Representatives has voted to stiffen the rules for disclosure of donations to charities created or controlled by members of Congress. However, some lawmakers and charity lobbyists are urging Congress to go a step further, saying that more needs to be done to avoid abuses…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Companies Can Invest in Charities and Make Money, Report Says
Investing for Impact: Managing and Measuring Proactive Social Investments, by Mark Kramer and Sarah Cooch, studies ways a company can pour money into environmental or human-service organizations while staying true to its corporate mission. Commissioned by the Shell Foundation, this report reviews…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Methods for Creating Productive After-School Programs
Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success, by Rebecca Raley, Jean Grossman, and Karen E. Walker, reports on research by Public/Private Ventures on how to establish after-school programs that attract young people and produce strong academic and social results. Among the most successful…
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
A Report on Foundations That Support Leadership Development
Investing in Leadership: Inspiration and Ideas From Philanthropy’s Latest Frontier, Volume 2
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions