Foundations Honored for Advocacy Projects and Other Publicity Efforts
The Council on Foundations this week will present 81 awards to honor grant makers for their annual and biennial reports, ALSO SEE:Winners of the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards magazines and periodicals, public-information campaigns, and Web sites. The 20th annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for…
By Cassie J. Moore
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Federal Officials Allege Tax Scam
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed civil lawsuits in eight states to stop what it said is the nationwide promotion of a tax-avoidance scheme in which people are allegedly advised to claim bogus church status by creating a certain type of organization. The lawsuits take aim at abuse of what…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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White House Candidates Release Giving Records
President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry have released information about their contributions to charity last year. President Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, gave $68,360 to churches and charities in 2003, 9.4 percent of their taxable income of…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Head of Social-Services Group Embraces Fun –Â and Creative Fund Raising
Farmington Hills, Mich. Joyce Keller smiles sheepishly as she recalls her old teaching days. Although she loved the students she served as a special-education instructor in Michigan schools in the mid-1970s, she grew unhappy with the rigidity of her schedule. It got to the point, she says, that she…
By Kimberlee Roth
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Volunteers Say Charity Work Helps Them in Their Careers
Fifty-seven percent of Americans who volunteer believe that volunteering has helped their careers by providing them with opportunities to learn new skills and meet other professionals, according to a new survey. Thirteen percent of respondents reported finding a job or making a career change as a…
By Cassie J. Moore
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Some charities turn clients into eager volunteersWhen Doreen Wohl came to work one winter afternoon, she had 25 people to feed, almost 1,000 pounds of groceries to move, and no coworkers to assist her. Ms. Wohl, executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, in New York, was in a…
By Cassie J. Moore
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Following are summaries of recent reports by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. This private group reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The alliance does not approve or disapprove of charities, and urges potential donors…
American Friends of the Israel Museum (New York): Appointed Lynn Holstein, director of external affairs at Iscar (Tefen, Israel), to be executive director. Bo’s Place (Houston): Appointed Muffin Clark, executive director of the DeLay Foundation for Kids (Houston), to be executive director. Bo’s…
Tax-Exempt Organizations Registered With the IRS
More than 950,000 charities and private foundations were registered with the Internal Revenue Service as of ALSO SEE:Tax-Exempt Organizations Registered With the IRS September 30, 2003, according to figures just released by the tax agency. That is an increase of 65 percent from a decade ago, when…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Advice Making Board Retreats More Productive
Get participants at least an hour away from their homes, keep them out of the daily demands of the charity during the event, and other tips for an effective meeting.
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Performance Evaluations Can Help Workers Improve — and Help Charities Reach Their Goals
Before Carol B. Wittmeyer’s arrival at Medaille College, fund raisers at the Buffalo institution were evaluated by only the most rudimentary standards: whether they arrived at work on time and how they carried out basic office tasks. But after Ms. Wittmeyer was hired in October as the college’s…
By Peter Panepento
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has presented its 2004 CASE Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation…
Overview of Nonprofit Groups in Indiana
The Indiana Nonprofit Sector: A Profile, by Kirsten A. Grnbjerg and Linda J. Allen, summarizes the results of a 2002 survey of 2,205 Indiana charities, congregations, and advocacy and mutual-benefit organizations. Ms. Grnbjerg, a professor at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, in…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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The Handbook on Counter-Terrorism Measures: What U.S. Nonprofits and Grantmakers Need to Know, by Edgardo Ramos, Timothy R. Lyman, Patricia Canavan, and Clifford Nichols III, summarizes the potential effects on charitable organizations of rules that the federal government has imposed in recent…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Advice for Foundations Supporting Collaborations
Getting Better Together: A Foundation Report on Collaboration Grantsdescribes several nonprofit-group partnerships that have received financing from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, in Atlanta. The report profiles five collaborations, including one between a theater company and a refugee…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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