Key Steps in Outcome Management, by Harry Hatry and Linda Lampkin, offers advice on how organizations can use program assessments to improve their services. Harry Hatry, principal research associate and director of the public-management program of the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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The Grants Register 2004: the Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide, 22nd Edition lists more than 3,500 grants that are available for postgraduate education and professional and advanced vocational training. Most entries include application procedures, contact information, deadlines,…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Charity’s CEO Sees Young People as Key to Restoration of Antique City
At age 32, Michael John Dagon says he has found the job that he hopes will last a lifetime. Mr. Dagon is the new executive director of Save Venice, a 36-year-old New York organization whose mission is to restore the city’s artwork and architecture. Those valuable cultural resources were damaged by…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas. Arts. Americans for the Arts (Washington) and the National Association of Counties (Washington) have presented the 2003 County Arts Leadership Award to Douglas M.…
Charities in Houston Get Top Ranking
A group that tracks the financial practices of nonprofit organizations gives charities in Houston its highest rating in an analysis comparing a sample of charities in the nation’s 20 largest cities. Charities in Houston ranked first in fund-raising efficiency and third best in the percentage of…
Fearing that nonprofit organizations’ fund-raising efforts may be hurt by the government’s desire to rein in businesses that send mass faxes, some groups say they will fight new federal regulations designed to eliminate so-called junk faxes. Two umbrella groups in Washington -- Independent Sector,…
A business charged with fraudulently selling consumers lists of foundations that supposedly offered grants to individuals has agreed to pay the government $296,000 and halt its operation, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The business, which operated under two names -- Grant…
IRS Sues Quaker Group to Recover Taxes
The IRS has sued the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends for refusing to garnish the wages of one of its employees, a tax resister who says she has religious objections to supporting the military. The service says that Priscilla Adams, a Quaker activist, owes more than…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Tax Agency Won’t Publish Training Manual This Year
A training manual intended to help IRS agents interpret rules pertaining to tax-exempt organizations will not be published this fall, the service reports. Instead, several chapters of the manual will be published toward the end of the fiscal year ending September 30. The service would not say what…
By Stephen G. Greene
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IRS Says Housing Issues Will Be Priority
The Treasury Department has announced its priorities for offering guidance on tax laws affecting charities for the next year. Among the new items: clarifying how charities can take better advantage of federal tax legislation encouraging their participation in the development of low-cost housing.…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Volunteer Network Gets $1.1-Million Grant
CityCares, a network of 31 charities that organize short-term volunteer projects, has received a $1.1-million grant from the Omidyar Foundation, a fund in Palo Alto, Calif., created by the founder of the eBay online auction site and his wife. More than $600,000 of the grant will go toward the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundation Offers Grants for Charity Software
The Open Society Institute, in New York, is accepting proposals for the development of software designed to help nonprofit organizations carry out their missions. The grant program is for software designed specifically for charities doing work in the following areas: human rights, legal services,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet ‘Blogathon’ Raises Money for Charity
With bleary eyes and more than a little coffee, bloggers stayed up all night on July 26 to raise money for charity. A Web log -- often shortened to blog -- is an online journal that is frequently updated with news, opinion, photographs, or other content. Last month, more than 400 people who run…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
House Rejects $100-Million Supplement for AmeriCorps
Washington The U.S. House of Representatives dealt AmeriCorps another blow last month when it denied the embattled national-service program $100-million that would have prevented the program from having to significantly reduce the number of participants this year. The House voted 219 to 200 not to…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Economic downturn yields better rental opportunities for charities, even as would-be buyers face sticker shockThe bursting of the technology boom has opened up possibilities for charities looking for cheaper office space. Even in regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area -- only a few years ago…
By Maura Webber
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Groups look for better ways to prevent employee theftTen days after Cathy Adcock became chief financial officer of the Capital Area United Way, in East Lansing, Mich., last December she noticed during an internal review that dozens of checks were missing from the organization’s records. When the…
By Brad Wolverton
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