The Congressional Budget Office estimates that charitable bequests will fall 22 percent through 2010 as a result of the estate-tax repeal. The tax is being gradually phased out until 2010, when it will be fully repealed for one year. After 2010, without new legislation, the tax would be restored.…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Getting Discounted Office Supplies
Nonprofits often have many untapped assets that they forget to leverage.
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Helping Nonprofit Employees Choose Among ‘Consumer-Driven’ Health-Care Plans
JOB MARKET By Alison Stein Wellner Stacy Brackeen is extremely organized. Ms. Brackeen, a mother of three who is also director of finance at the Breakthrough Collaborative, a charity in San Francisco that provides educational enrichment programs, is as meticulous about logging her household’s…
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
In today’s marketplace, you should really only show detailed information for positions you have held within the last 10 to 15 years.
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
Raising money through planned gifts depends as much on your ability to persuade and communicate with people as it does on your technical skills.
By Rebecca Gardyn
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Arts. The American Symphony Orchestra League (New York) and the MetLife Foundation (New York) have presented the 2004 Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement to…
A History of Family Homelessness in New York
A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons From Family Homelessness in New York City, by Ralph da Costa Nunez, recounts the history of homelessness affecting families in New York, as well as efforts to remedy the problem. Mr. Nunez, president of Homes for the Homeless, in New York, describes…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
How Grant Makers Can Promote Healthy Behaviors
Healthy Behaviors: Addressing Chronic Disease at Its Roots examines how grant makers can support efforts to promote healthy behavior. This report by Grantmakers In Health, in Washington, begins with background information on chronic disease in the United States and the connections between illnesses…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Animal-Rights Lobbyist Is Selected to Be Top Dog at Humane Society
When Wayne P. Pacelle was a young boy, he would urge his parents to drive carefully so they wouldn’t accidentally hit the animals that sometimes strayed onto the roads near their home in New Haven, Conn. Mr. Pacelle, 38, has since built a career around trying to keep animals out of harm’s way. This…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Boomers May Need Push to Volunteer, Report Says
By Ben Gose A national publicity campaign and small financial incentives may be needed to motivate baby boomers to get involved with charity and participate in other civic activities, says a new report by Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Compared with their parents, the so-called…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Bits: Microsoft To Contribute $3-Million to NPower
The Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., will contribute $3-million in cash over two years to NPower, a network of 12 nonprofit organizations across the country that provide technology assistance to other charities. Two guides to completing the Form 990-PF informational tax returns that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Kiosks Dispense Legal Assistance
Going before a judge without a lawyer and filling out the necessary paperwork for the court can be complicated, but a charity in Santa Ana, Calif., has turned to technology to help make self-representation less intimidating. The Legal Aid Society of Orange County has created the Interactive…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
North Carolina Puts Grants List Online
The Office of the State Auditor in North Carolina has added to its Web site a database of nonprofit organizations that receive funds from the state and the amount of money they receive. Visitors to the site can search the information for the 2004 fiscal year by city, county, the name of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
IRS Must Improve Enforcement, Panel Says
An IRS advisory panel urged the revenue agency to strengthen its enforcement of charities in its report to the IRS this month. At the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities, Karl Emerson, director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations, said the IRS…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
New Rules on Noncash Gifts Advance in Congress
Included in the corporate-tax legislation that the House Ways and Means Committee approved last week were changes in the government rules for donations of cars, intellectual property, and other noncash items. The provisions are aimed at preventing individuals and companies from taking overly…
By Ian Wilhelm
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