How The Chronicle’s Pay Survey Was Done
The Chronicle’s 12th annual salary survey examines what the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations ALSO SEE:DATABASE: 2003 Compensation SurveyNonprofit CEO’s See Salaries RisePay Varies Widely for Executives of Nonprofit Associations and Watchdogs pay their top officials. This year’s survey…
By Marni D. Larose
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Pay Varies Widely for Executives of Nonprofit Associations and Watchdogs
As part of its 12th annual compensation survey, The Chronicle this year examined the salaries and benefits ALSO SEE:DATABASE: 2003 Compensation SurveyNonprofit CEO’s See Salaries RiseHow The Chronicle‘s Pay Survey Was Done of top executives at 15 umbrella organizations that advocate on behalf of…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Nonprofit CEO’s See Salaries Rise
Pay raises beat inflation rate despite economic squeezeExecutive salaries at the nation’s biggest nonprofit groups continued to rise last year despite the sluggish economy ALSO SEE:DATABASE: 2003 Compensation SurveyPay Varies Widely for Executives of Nonprofit Associations and WatchdogsHow The…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Chief Executives Who Received $100,000 or More in Fringe Benefits
ORGANIZATION: Lumina Foundation for Education
American Foundation for AIDS Research (New York): Appointed Judith Auerbach, director of the behavioral and social-science program and HIV-prevention science coordinator in the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be vice president for public policy in…
How Charities in Cities Large and Small Sell Their Quality of Life to Job Seekers
JOB MARKET By Peter Panepento When the Van Andel Research Institute began recruiting a team of cancer researchers to work at its newly founded laboratory during the late 1990s, it faced a big problem: how to attract top scholars and science administrators to live in Grand Rapids, Mich., an address…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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Tips for Recruiting and Managing Older Volunteers
VOLUNTEERISM By Leah Kerkman Until a year ago, the Arizona Theatre Company, in Phoenix, had only one volunteer opportunity for people in their 50s or older: They could man the gift cart in the theater’s lobby. Now, the theater offers a wide array of opportunities for older volunteers, such as…
By Leah Kerkman
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Creating a Nonprofit Group in Illinois
Do It Right the First Time: Starting a Nonprofit Organization in Illinois, edited by Kathryn M. Vanden Berk, discusses how to recruit board members, develop mission statements and business plans, incorporate, build relationships with prospective donors, and obtain tax-exempt status and local…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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How to Include Disabled People in Relief and Development Projects
Disability, Equality, and Human Rights: a Training Manual for Development and Humanitarian Organisations, by Alison Harris and Sue Enfield, emphasizes the importance of involving disabled people in the planning and delivery of emergency relief and economic-development assistance. Ms. Harris, who…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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New Zoo Chief Hopes to Lure More Humans to See the Animals
When Willie B., Zoo Atlanta’s world-famous 41-year-old gorilla, died three years ago, he was so beloved that his obituary made the local newspaper’s front page. The gorilla had come a long way: from Cameroon to a small cage in the city’s old Municipal Zoo, and then finally, in the 1980s, he was…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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‘New York Review of Books’: Foundation Spending
As government support of nonprofit organizations is being cut back, wealthy donors should be ALSO SEE:$300-Million Art Collection Promised to National Gallery; Other Gifts doing more to ensure that their money goes to direct services, writes the philanthropist Lewis B. Cullman in The New York…
‘Inc.’: How an Actor Spurred Innovation
Robert Redford’s Sundance Village, a nonprofit organization that operates an artist’s colony, a laboratory for independent filmmakers, and the Sundance Film Festival, is the nucleus of a sprawling international enterprise, writes Stephen H. Zades, in Inc. magazine (September). Mr. Zades, who runs…
On September 25, NPower NY, a nonprofit organization that provides technology assistance to other charities, will hold a seminar on how charities can encourage their employees to be more conscientious about computer security. For more information: Go to http://www.npowerny.org. On October 21, the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site OffersTechnology Discounts
A new Web site provides discounted hardware, software, and technology services to nonprofit organizations. TechMarketplace is a project of TechFoundation, a Cambridge, Mass., charity that was founded in 2001 to improve nonprofit organizations’ access to information technology. Among the products…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Cisco Grant Provides Voice Mail for Homeless
The Cisco Systems Foundation, in San Jose, Calif., has awarded a five-year, $2.5-million grant to Community Voice Mail, a charity in Seattle that works with social-service organizations in 37 cities to provide free voice mail to people who do not have telephone service. In addition to the cash…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Software Aims to Speed Relief Efforts
After a disaster, one of the biggest challenges relief organizations face is getting supplies to where they are needed, often under chaotic circumstances. New software aims to streamline that task by connecting all the players in the supply chain. The Fritz Institute, a San Francisco nonprofit…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor