Federal Program Awards $13.95-Million
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program has awarded grants totaling $13.95-million to 28 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative technology projects in education, health care, economic development,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Health, Education Endowments Studied
Investments made by nonprofit health-care organizations outperformed two major stock-market indices last year, while the endowments of colleges and universities earned money as those indices fell, according to two studies released in September. The studies, conducted by the Commonfund Institute,…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Resources for Charities Interested in For-Profit Enterprises
BRAINSTORMS Charities that seek assistance in planning or operating social-purpose businesses can look ALSO SEE:A Nonprofit Group Teaches Charities How to Sell Themselves to the following sources for guidance. Organizations Social Enterprise Alliance. A network of nonprofit leaders and grant makers…
A Nonprofit Group Teaches Charities How to Sell Themselves
BRAINSTORMS By Jennifer C. Berkshire Residents of Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood welcomed an experimental venture this ALSO SEE:Resources for Charities Interested in For-Profit Enterprises summer: Fresh Ground, a fruit-and-vegetable stand operated by local high-school students. Every…
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
ALS Association Greater New York Chapter: Appointed Jack Ryger, New York development director at American ORT (New York), to be director of development. American National Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Terry J. Sicilia, chief executive officer of the American Red Cross, Mile High Chapter…
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…
A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Christopher Rademacher left the nonprofit career fair last May at George Mason University feeling ALSO SEE:How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs triumphant. Despite arriving at the Arlington, Va., campus late and missing some of the recruiters he had…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
How Charity Recruiters Can Make the Most of Career Fairs
JOB MARKET By Lara L. McDavit Pamela Flamer started attending nonprofit career fairs two years ago, after a colleague at the ALSO SEE:A Job Seeker’s Guide to Navigating Nonprofit Career Fairs Kennedy-Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, returned from one held at nearby Goucher College and sang its…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
Former Foundation CEO Takes on Global Warming in New Post
Human endeavor, says Peter C. Goldmark Jr., can be divided into six realms -- the conventional three of government, business, and nonprofit activities, plus religion, the news media, and the criminal underworld. Mr. Goldmark’s work has taken him into four of those six, and he brings that versatile…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Questionnaire for Evaluating Volunteer Programs
Volunteer Management Audit, by Susan J. Ellis, offers a detailed questionnaire to help nonprofit groups evaluate their volunteer programs. Ms. Ellis, president of Energize, a training, consulting, and publishing company in Philadelphia that specializes in volunteerism, says the questionnaire will…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
Charities and Foundations Reflect on Philanthropic Responses to 9/11 Attacks
September 11: Perspectives From the Field of Philanthropy, Volume 2,is a collection of interviews with executives of charities and foundations that contributed to relief efforts after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Several focus on the many ways that nonprofit organizations provided immediate aid to…
By Jessica Kronstadt
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Education. The Broad Foundation (Los Angeles) has presented its 2003 Broad Prize for Urban Education to the Long Beach Unified School District (Calif.). The award…
Nonprofit Advocacy Is Focus of New Site
By Nicole Wallace Charities that want to know more about nonprofit advocacy can turn to a new Web site. NPAction.org features articles, advice, and news about activism and the laws and regulations governing charity lobbying and voter education. The site also provides contact information for the…
Activists Encouraged to Use Video Testimonials
By Nicole Wallace A Washington research organization thinks that charities have yet to fully harness the potential of the Internet for advocacy -- and it is promoting a new approach that it hopes will better take advantage of what the medium has to offer. Russell E. Morgan Jr., president of the…
Project Seeks to Translate Web Sites Into Spanish
By Nicole Wallace To help Spanish speakers gain access to the breadth of information available on the Internet, the IBM Corporation, in Armonk, N.Y., is working closely with Hispanic organizations to develop software that translates information written in English into Spanish. “Despite the fact…
Health, Education Workers Win Pay Raises, Study Finds
Salaries at big nonprofit organizations are continuing to rise despite the slow economy, according to a new compensation survey by PRM Consulting, in Washington. On average, salaries for the 92 positions at health and social-welfare nonprofit organizations included in the survey increased by an…
By Leah Kerkman
Contributor