Bits: A Software Site Shuts Down; Popular Online Forum Is Revived; and iGive Gifts Top $1-Billion
The Nonprofit Software Index, a Web site that described software programs designed for charities, shut down last month “due to resource constraints.” The site had been maintained by William A. Kleintop, a professor at Seton Hall University. Marshall M. Burkes, Internet services administrator at the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Source of Technology Help
Community technology centers, which originally were founded to provide technology access to people in low-income areas, have started to provide technology assistance to local nonprofit organizations, according to a new report published by the Community Technology Centers’ Network, in Cambridge,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundation Uses Internet to Help Hunger Groups
Alan Shawn Feinstein says that he will donate $5 to anti-hunger groups for each person who visits his foundation’s Help the Hungry Web site by the end of the year, up to a total of $1-million. Since 1998 the Feinstein Foundation, in Cranston, R.I., has given away $1-million each year to anti-hunger…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Federal Program Awards $12.4-Million
The Technology Opportunities Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded grants totaling $12.4-million to 25 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants for innovative projects that demonstrate how information technology can be put…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Arts. Americans for the Arts (Washington) has presented its Frederick R. Weisman Award for Philanthropy to David Rockefeller, former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank…
Report Shows Hiring Slows at Foundations
The percentage of foundations that employ paid staff members has decreased over the past decade, ALSO SEE:Staffing at U.S. FoundationsDriven by MissionCharities and Foundations Must Confront Shrinking Labor Pool, Researcher SaysWhat Drives Nonprofit Employees even as the number of foundations that…
By Lara L. McDavit
Contributor
Charities and Foundations Must Confront Shrinking Labor Pool, Researcher Says
Nonprofit organizations -- and the grant makers that support them -- need to become more aware of a ALSO SEE:Driven by MissionWhat Drives Nonprofit EmployeesReport Shows Hiring Slows at Foundations coming decrease in the available labor pool, and start providing more support to employees and…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Nonprofit employees trade high pay for job satisfactionGina L. Brooks is proud of the work done by Second Helpings, the Indianapolis anti-hunger charity she heads. But her employees, she says, may be even prouder. Take, for example, her food-production manager. Second Helpings trains individuals in…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
IRS Releases Study on Charitable Trusts
The Internal Revenue Service says it received 99,869 informational tax returns in 1999 from charitable remainder trusts, a popular form of planned gift. That’s an increase of 14,809 over 1998, the first year the IRS published a study of the trusts. Of the total returns in 1999, 21,630 were filed by…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (Chicago): Appointed Charles L. Katzenmeyer, associate director ALSO SEE:Annenberg’s Bequest Tops $1-BillionBelt-Tightening at Two Foundations Puts the Squeeze on Charities for development and public affairs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of…
What Drives Nonprofit Employees
Reasons for Taking Their Jobs Note: Respondents were asked to choose which of two motivations was more important. Nonprofit organizations For-profit organizations Federal government Job security 34% 71% 65% Helping the public 60% 20% 32% Don’t know/refused to answer 6% 9% 3% Salary and benefits 34%…
By spending time with people who are working in the field, you’ll quickly get a sense of where your true interests lie -- and whether an MPA will really be helpful to you in your chosen career path.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
Seeking Work as a Community Liaison
Most charities, just like other employers, try to determine what kind of impact a job candidate could have on their overall goals.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
The longer a person has been in this country, the more apt they are to be interested in tax deductions as a kind of exchange for making a charitable contribution.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
What the Certified Fund-Raising Executive Credential Means — and What It Doesn’t
As an associate director of development at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Jennifer Covington helps attract big gifts to the Houston hospital. Her six-year career has also included fund-raising jobs at two other Texas medical institutions. She looks forward to a long career…
By David Whelan
Contributor
A Sampling of Questions From the Certified Fund-Raising Executive Test
TOOLS AND TRAINING ALSO SEE:What the Certified Fund-Raising Executive Credential Means -- and What It Doesn’t