Q. Since a layoff four years ago from a corporation’s grant-making office, I have been struggling to find a full-time nonprofit job. I have more than 20 years in corporate grant making and marketing. I have had three temporary, part-time jobs since my layoff, two of them in the nonprofit field, and…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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Doctor and Former Technology CEO to Lead Google Philanthropy
Larry Brilliant’s life seems the product of a split personality. He has lived in a Himalayan monastery and traveled with the Grateful Dead, but also is a doctor, a former chief executive of a Seattle technology company, and a telecommunications patent holder. After 61 years, though, he says his two…
By Ian Wilhelm
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‘American Prospect’: a Senator’s Charity
Sen. Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, runs a charity that isn’t very charitable, and doesn’t have the proper registration to do business in the state, says an article in The American Prospect (March). In an article called “Sour Charity,” the magazine says that Operation Good Neighbor…
By Debra E. Blum
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‘The Economist’: Mixing Business and Charity
Encouraging charities to adopt business principles is gaining popularity as more wealthy donors around the world look for ways to maximize the benefits of their philanthropy, according to a 14-page special report in The Economist (February 25-March 3). “Many of the new philanthropists are well…
By Nicole Lewis
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Corporate philanthropy. The Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (New York) has presented its Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards, which honor companies…
Group Seeks Reports on Corporate Contributions
A conservative advocacy group is pushing for passage of shareholder resolutions that would require some of the nation’s biggest corporations to report regularly on their charitable contributions and disclose the business rationale behind each grant. The National Legal and Policy Center, in…
By Harvy Lipman
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Microsoft Donation Aids Overseas Relief Groups
The need for better coordination among relief charities is a constant refrain during times of crisis. The Microsoft Corporation thinks technology could play an important part in solving the problem, and has made a large gift to help international aid and development organizations improve their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Coalition Opposes AOL’s Plan on Bulk Mailings
This article was updated from the version that appeared in the print issue of The Chronicle to incorporate news that occurred after the newspaper’s press deadline. A coalition of more than 50 nonprofit organizations, political groups, labor unions, and small businesses have banded together to fight…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Calculating fees as a freelance grant-proposal writer
Q. I have worked as a grant-proposal writer for years and am now interested in doing such work as a consultant. However, I have no idea what to charge. Any advice? A. To give you a ballpark figure, freelance grant-proposal writers generally charge between $60 and $150 per hour, says Gail Vertz,…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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More People Seek Food Aid From Charities, Study Finds
More than 25 million people sought food last year from the America’s Second Harvest network of hunger-relief organizations, an 8-percent increase since 2001, a new study has found. Nine million of those receiving aid were children and nearly three million were 65 or older. Thirty-eight percent were…
By Caroline Preston
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Charity Coalition Urges Government to Scrap Antiterrorism Guidelines
A coalition of nonprofit organizations has called on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to scrap new guidelines designed to help prevent foundations and charities from unwittingly financing terrorism. The voluntary guidelines, unveiled by the Treasury Department in December, are a revised version…
By Caroline Preston
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Watchdog, Foundation Cleared in Audit
The IRS has cleared a nonprofit watchdog group in Austin, Tex., and its affiliated charitable foundation of any wrongdoing after a 13-month investigation. The revenue service began examining the two organizations, Texans for Public Justice and the Public Justice Foundation of Texas, in December…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Stern Warnings for the Red Cross
A key senator chides the relief charity over its governance and its emphasis on attracting good publicity Washington For the American Red Cross, “business-as-usual cannot continue.” So says a key U.S. lawmaker as part of his wide-ranging investigation into the multibillion-dollar charity, an…
By Ian Wilhelm
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59 Groups Violated Rules on Electioneering in 2004, IRS Says
Washington Nearly three-quarters of the 82 religious and charitable organizations that the Internal Revenue Service has investigated over allegations of illegal political activity during the 2004 election cycle have been found guilty of violating the law, the revenue service has announced. In most…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Overwhelming duties, low pay cause leaders to leave the top spot The vast majority of nonprofit executive directors are so fed up with their fund-raising responsibilities and other ALSO SEE: TABLE: How charity chief executives feel about their duties challenges that they plan to quit, according to…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Charities Review Military-Leave Policies as Reservists Are Deployed
Frank Moser was working as a district executive for the Boy Scouts of America, recruiting and training adult volunteers in eastern ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: Iraq’s Reach Into the Nonprofit World South Dakota, when his Army National Guard unit was called to active duty. He was sent to a military base…
By Debra E. Blum
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