Managers Who Have Moved From Businesses to Charities Tell How They Navigated the Differences
JOB MARKET By Jeffrey Klineman She seemed to be the perfect candidate. A community-theater performer in her youth, she had earned a master’s in business administration and gone on to a responsible, lucrative position in the travel-card industry. (Travel cards are credit cards that are used at gas…
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ENTRY LEVEL CarlLa Horton Age: 52 First job: Canvasser, Citizens for a Better Environment, Chicago Current job: Executive director, the Northern Westchester Shelter, Pleasantville, N.Y. I grew up in a very poor home in Chicago, one in which there was a lot of domestic violence. One of my brothers…
Finding, Paying for, and Getting the Best Work from Nonprofit Interns
IN THE TRENCHES By Kelly A. J. Powers In the summer of 2001, the leaders of the Women’s Wilderness Institute had an idea that would, in one stroke, expand its efforts to provide camping trips for girls and women and help subsidize trips for the neediest participants. The charity in Boulder, Colo.,…
By Kelly A.J. Powers
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Successes and Challenges for After-School Programs
Multiple Choices After School: Findings From the Extended-Service Schools Initiative by Jean Baldwin Grossman, Marilyn L. Price, Veronica Fellerath, LInda Z. Jcovy, Lauren J. Kotloff, Rebecca Raley, Karen E. Walker reports on 60 after-school programs created through grants from the Wallace-Reader’s…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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A Museum Adminstrator Learns What It’s Like to Be CEO
Davenport, Iowa Cyclone country might not be the ideal place for a person to try her first building project, given the way structures sometimes get picked up and torn apart. But for Linda A. Downs, the location is not as key as the opportunity. In September, after 13 years as the education director…
By Jeffrey Klineman
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Tax Agency Ends Program on Donated Leave Time
The IRS has ended a program that allowed employees to donate the value of their unused paid leave to charity without paying income taxes on the gift. Following the terrorist attacks in 2001, the IRS made a special exception to income-tax rules that allowed workers to pay no income taxes on paid…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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IRS Compiles Auditors’ Checklist
The Internal Revenue Service has provided its auditors with a list of questions to ask selected religious and social-services groups this year as part of an ongoing effort to determine how the agency can best strengthen its auditing program. The revenue service says it will use the answers to build…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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College Endowments Drop an Average of 6%, but Donations Remain Steady, Study Finds
Colleges and their fund-raising foundations saw the value of their endowments fall for the second year in a row, according to preliminary results of a new study. The value of assets fell an average of 6 percent in fiscal 2002, compared with 3 percent in fiscal 2001. The study was conducted by the…
By Michael Anft
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Key Technology Meetings Slated for March
Two leading technology conferences will be held in March in Oakland, Calif. The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology help to nonprofit groups, will hold its 2003 Roundup March 7-9 at the Oakland Marriott…
By NICOLE WALLACE
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New Technology Tools Offered to Charities
TechSoup has added new products to its DiscounTech online store to benefit small and medium-size nonprofit organizations. TechSoup is a technology Web site for nonprofit groups that is run by CompuMentor, a San Francisco charity that provides technology assistance to other nonprofit organizations.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arthritis Foundation’s Atlanta Headquarters Makes Budget Cuts, Lays Off 17 Workers
Blaming the economic slowdown, the Arthritis Foundation has laid off 17 employees at its Atlanta headquarters and made budget cuts of nearly 40 percent in some program areas. The layoffs, announced December 3, reduce the size of the headquarters staff by 9 percent, according to Dennis Bowman, a…
By Harvy Lipman
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Federal Agency Urged to Help Relief Charities
The problems surrounding charities’ response to September 11 should prompt the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help national nonprofit organizations develop strategies for disaster relief, said the General Accounting Office in a new report. While nonprofit disaster-relief groups, such as the…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Lack of Money Forces Federal Service Program to Suspend Application Process
Interest in joining AmeriCorps was so robust last year that the program has suspended the enrollment of new volunteers until Congress releases enough money to cover the additional people. The problem was compounded by imprecision in the federal government’s procedure for monitoring the enrollment…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Bush’s executive order loosens federal restraints on religious charitiesPresident Bush’s decision last month to order the federal government to loosen restraints on religious charities that seek and obtain federal money means that Mr. Bush has accomplished with the stroke of a pen much of what…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Growing Up as a Volunteer: Influence of Charity Work Is Long-Lasting
When Laura E. Lockwood started attending Manatee Community College two years ago, she couldn’t ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles leave behind her first love: the ManaTeen Club, a program in Bradenton, Fla., she and her sister had founded in 1994 to…
By Ian Wilhelm
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An Energetic Duo Works to Persuade Peers to Drop their Weapons
When Emily Spencer and Shay Migl first met at Rosemont Middle School in Norfolk, Va., through an ALSO SEE:Charity’s Youth MovementThe Young and the Generous: Related articles afterschool program called Hands Without Guns, it was their differences that stood out. One was white, one was black; one…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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