The Best Seasons for Job Hunting
The nonprofit job market is chillier during the winter.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
Where the New Charities Are: Gains in 50 Big Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area Total organizations Organizations created from 1999-2003 Percentage increase Population Atlanta 12,448 2,324 23.0% 4,112,198 Las Vegas (Nev./Ariz.) 3,065 524 20.6 1,563,282 Orlando (Fla.) 4,509 751 20.0 1,644,561 Houston/Galveston/Brazoria (Tex.) 13,586 2,182 19.1 4,669,571…
Charitable Missions That Attracted the Most New Groups: A State-by-State Look
New organizations Percentage of state’s new organizations Alabama Religion 362 18.9% Human services 351 18.3 Education 252 13.2 Alaska Religion 56 12.5 Recreation, sports, and leisure 55 12.3 Education 52 11.6 Arizona Education 360 17.1 Religion 313 14.9 Human services 250 11.9 Arkansas Religion…
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Community development. The Open Society Institute (New York) has announced its 2004 Baltimore fellows, each of whom will receive $48,750 over 18 months to carry out…
Charities Outdo Businesses on Worker Benefits
By Sharnell Bryan Employees of religious, charitable, and nonprofit professional organizations receive more-generous benefits than do those in other industries, according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, in New York. The report drew information from more than 1,700 for-profit and…
By Sharnell Bryan
Contributor
New York Charity Officials Repay $1.3-Million in Loans
New York State officials have ordered officers and directors of three dozen charities to repay a total of $1.3-million in loans they had received from the organizations. The New York attorney general’s office said most of the money has been repaid. The state office ordered the repayments as part of…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Trustee Selection Often Based on Personal Links, Study Finds
Most nonprofit organizations recruit trustees based on friendship or other personal connection to the organization’s leadership, according to a new study by Bridgestar, an arm of the Boston consulting organization Bridgespan that helps charities recruit senior managers and board members. The…
By Cassie J. Moore
Contributor
Review Finds Orchestra Did Not Violate Tax Law
An internal review by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has concluded that, while the organization’s leaders misled the board and the public about the value of 30 stringed instruments the symphony purchased in 2003 from a private collector, their actions did not appear to violate any tax laws. The…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Tax-Exempt Property Tough on N.J., Says Report
New Jersey loses nearly $90-billion a year in potential revenue because nonprofit organizations and governments there are not required to pay property taxes, according to a new report. The property of most of the state’s nonprofit groups and governments is located in a few cities, depriving those…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Government Drops Financial-Services Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its lawsuit against a San Diego financial-services company in which it had charged the business with defrauding the government and investors by selling questionable tax shelters -- including one that allegedly allowed clients of the company to falsely…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Group Offers Free Tax-Form Software
Charities now can file their federal informational tax returns over the Internet using free software offered by a Washington nonprofit group. The group, the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics, has developed a program that allows charities to enter, verify, print, and…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Nonprofit groups raise money, mobilize workers to help victims of Asia’s catastropheAs millions of people in South Asia struggled to deal with the aftermath of the deadly earthquake and tidal waves, American relief organizations were scrambling to provide aid to victims and to raise the funds that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Leader of Foundation Umbrella Group Announces Plans to Retire This Year
Washington
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Innovation –Â and a Personal Touch –Â Get Priority at New Charities
The hundreds of thousands of charities created in the past decade cater to a vast array of social needs. ALSO SEE:SPECIAL REPORT: America’s Charity BoomPhoto Essay But most of the groups have at least one thing in common: founders who are passionate about their desire to pioneer new approaches and…
By Holly Hall
Contributor
IRS Asks Organizations Seeking Charity Status to Supply More Details
As the number of groups seeking charity status has soared in the past decade, the Internal Revenue Service has struggled to keep up. More than 90,000 groups applied for charity status in 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, up from about 60,000 in 1993. Even though demand for…
By Brad Wolverton
Contributor