The Benefits and Challenges of Working for a Charity Based in a Religion Different From One’s Own
IN THE TRENCHES By Rebecca Gardyn When visitors walk through the doors of the Addison Penzak Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley, in Los Gatos, Calif., Danelle Rhiner is waiting to greet them with a big, welcoming smile and a warm, hearty “Shalom!” If asked, Ms. Rhiner, who juggles duties as…
By Rebecca Gardyn
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A List of Resources to Help Nonprofit Groups Assess Their Programs
IN THE TRENCHES The following resources can offer assistance for charities that seek to evaluate their work. Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs, ALSO SEE:How Charities Learn from Evaluating Themselves, and Tips for Measuring Results…
How Charities Learn from Evaluating Themselves, and Tips for Measuring Results
IN THE TRENCHES By Kimberlee Roth When Lisa Brakebill became program director of the Greater Maryland Chapter of the ALSO SEE:A List of Resources to Help Nonprofit Groups Assess Their Programs Alzheimer’s Association, in Timonium, eight years ago, she says, program evaluation meant figuring out…
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Grant Making for Social Change
Understanding Social Justice Philanthropy, by John Hunsaker and Brenda Hanzl, encourages foundations to use their grants not just to provide food to the hungry and medical care to uninsured people, but ultimately to reduce, or even eliminate, the problems of needy people. Mr. Hunsaker, a research…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Tax and Legal Guide for Charities in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
The Paper Chase: Nonprofit Filings, Forms, and Record-Keeping: Sixth Edition provides an overview of the legal and tax documents that are required for charities in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The guide, published by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington and Washington Area…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Head of YWCA Focuses on Group’s Mission, Not on Criticism
After only a few weeks on the job, the new chief executive of the YWCA of the USA, Patricia Ireland, has already achieved one of her goals: raising the profile of the 145-year-old organization and its 313 local affiliates. But the attention the group is receiving is not the kind she had sought. The…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Catholic Group Faces Staff Cuts
Catholic Relief Services is offering buyouts to employees and finding other ways to cut administrative expenses because of a decline in donations and losses in investments. The loss in revenue has forced the charity to suspend or cut charitable programs, reduce its advertising, travel, and training…
Ex-Charity Head Indicted for Theft
A former president of Goodwill Industries of Santa Clara County, in California, has been indicted on federal charges that he stole $804,602 from the charity from 1979 to 1997 by wiring money intended for job training for disabled people into personal accounts in Switzerland and Austria. Andrew…
‘City Pages’: Northwest Area Fund
The past six years at the Northwest Area Foundation have been “mystifying,” says City Pages, a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. City Pages says the foundation has been slowing down its spending on grants while increasing the amount it pays in administrative costs. The newspaper says that in 2000-1,…
‘American Demographics’: The Wealth Transfer
With predictions that at least $1-trillion will shift from the parents of baby boomers to their children, a “small army of lawyers, accountants, and financial planners -- as well as real estate brokers, travel agents, and car salesmen -- hope to profit,” says American Demographics (May). While many…
Nonprofit Work Appeals to Graduating Seniors
Almost two-thirds of graduating college seniors say they are considering taking a “public service” job, a new poll has found, and one in five of those students hopes to work for a nonprofit group. The study -- the first of its kind -- was conducted by Princeton Survey Research for the Center for…
By Elizabeth Greene
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Former Congressman to Fight Foundation Bill
By Elizabeth Schwinn, Ian Wilhelm, Grant Williams,
New Tax-Cut Law Could Discourage Giving
By Elizabeth Schwinn, Ian Wilhelm, Grant Williams,
Eye-catching marketing campaigns earn awards, as well as publicity and dollars, for nonprofit groupsThe National Sports Center for the Disabled, in Denver, was known for its winter sports, but ALSO SEE:Samples of winning campaigns for nonprofit groups it wanted to spread the word that it also had…
Theater’s Two Deputies Play Crucial Supporting Roles
A small plaque hanging in the hallway of the American Airlines Theatre -- the elegant Broadway home of the ALSO SEE:Writing a New Script Roundabout Theatre Company -- honors three people with the lines, “They dreamed it, they got it built, they got it paid for.” Todd Haimes, Roundabout’s artistic…
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Leader’s ‘fearless’ ways help transform a nonprofit theaterNew York Todd Haimes, artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, sits in his photograph-filled office with his ALSO SEE:Theater’s Two Deputies Play Crucial Supporting RolesRevenue at Roundabout Theatre Company, 1985-2002 black…
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