Charities in Louisiana’s capital struggle to cope as refugees from Katrina double the city’s population Baton Rouge, La. In a matter of days, the population of Louisiana’s capital doubled as people fleeing the wrath of ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina arrived by foot, in…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Gulf Coast charities face double challenge of helping displaced victims while assessing their own losses When Diane Easley fled Ocean Springs, Miss., to escape Hurricane Katrina, she grabbed pictures of her children ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina and the most important financial records…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities around the country pitch in to help Katrina’s victims The workload for charities in many parts of the country, including those nowhere near the Gulf Coast, has ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina suddenly become greater thanks to Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of thousands of people…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Thousands of people who lost everything depend on donors and charities as a long recovery beginsAs the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina continued to recede last week, nonprofit officials from around ALSO SEE:Special Report: Hurricane Katrina the country were grappling with the enormous problems…
Advocacy Institute (Washington): Appointed Jerry Hauser, chief operating officer at Teach for America (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. American Society of Association Executives & the Center for Association Leadership (Washington): Appointed Heidi Ellis Robey, staff…
Nonprofit organizations typically merge for reasons of survivability and viability.
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Most nonprofits are governed by at least some business people, and you may well have direct or indirect connections you never thought to explore.
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
A Defense of Nonprofit Health Care
Why Nonprofits Matter in American Medicine: A Policy Brief, by Mark Schlesinger and Bradford H. Gray, examines the debate about nonprofit health care and argues that despite their flaws, nonprofit groups have an important role to play in providing medical care. Drawing on more than 250 studies of…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Kellogg Foundation Taps Community-Fund Leader as New CEO
For Sterling K. Speirn, the past few weeks have been busy. Not only did Mr. Speirn get married, but he also ALSO SEE:Zowie! A Philanthropist Is Memorialized in a Comic Book announced that at the end of this year he will depart as president of the Peninsula Community Foundation to lead one of the…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
‘New York’: Clinton’s Global Gathering
On September 15, the William J. Clinton Foundation will bring heads of state, business leaders, and activists to New York to debate global issues and -- it hopes -- to sign pledges marking a commitment to bettering the world. The effort, dubbed the Clinton Global Initiative, is the latest by the…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
‘Time’: Boy Scouts and Diversity
The Boy Scouts of America does not have a reputation for inclusiveness -- largely because it rejects gay people and atheists -- but the charity insists that it cares about diversity, particularly when it comes to religion, reports Time (August 29). People of every faith have become Scouts, the…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
As more wealthy people turn their attention to managing their wealth rather than increasing it, some universities are starting to offer courses to meet the growing demand for financial and philanthropic knowledge, reports Worth magazine (September). “Making money intelligently is easier than giving…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
More Than 1 Million Tax-Exempt Groups Are Registered With the IRS
More than a million charities and private foundations were registered with the Internal Revenue Service as of September 30, 2004, according to figures released by the tax agency. The number of groups classified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code rose in 2004 by 45,947, or 4.8…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Here is an example of a story William C. Graustein tells frequently as part of his work on behalf of the William ALSO SEE:Story Time Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, which was named for his uncle. It is adapted from a version that appeared in one of the fund’s annual reports and starts with an…