Index of Volunteer Opportunities Throughout the World
Invest Yourself: the Catalogue of Volunteer Opportunities, edited by Susan G. Angus, lists more than 200 organizations offering full-time and part-time volunteer opportunities throughout the world. Listings, most of which are for volunteer positions within the United States, are arranged…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Civil rights. The National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis) has given its annual Freedom Award to Julian Bond, the long-time civil-rights activist and chair of the Board of Directors…
Pay for Education Leaders Up by Median of 22%, Report Says
Chief executives at large groups that provide or promote educational activities received a median pay increase of 22 percent this year, while leaders of large health and social-welfare organizations saw their median earnings increase 2.9 percent, according to a study by PRM Consulting, a Washington…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
How The Chronicle’s 2002 Survey of Nonprofit Compensation Was Compiled
The Chronicle‘s 11th annual salary survey examines what the nation’s largest nonprofit ALSO SEE:2002 Compensation SurveyBig Rise in Pay for CEO’sChief Executives Who Received $100,000 or More in Fringe BenefitsEmployees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive organizations pay…
By Martha Voelz
Contributor
Charity and foundation heads see 7.5% median gain in salaryIn a year that saw the economy dip into its first recession in 10 years, salaries paid in 2001 to ALSO SEE:2002 Compensation SurveyHow The Chronicle‘s 2002 Survey of Nonprofit Compensation Was CompiledChief Executives Who Received $100,000…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
How ‘Charter’ Schools Are Run: a Primer
Charter schools are public schools that are free of many local and state regulations that govern traditional ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Lesson PlansCharter Program Aims to Teach Success to Hispanic Youngsters public institutions. But charter schools are held more accountable than conventional ones for…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Charter Program Aims to Teach Success to Hispanic Youngsters
Washington When leaders of the National Council of La Raza, a nonprofit group in Washington, were looking for ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Lesson PlansHow ‘Charter’ Schools Are Run: a Primer ways to improve education for poor Hispanic children, they agreed that the stakes were so high that a big gamble was…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
More charitable groups are starting charter schoolsDetroit Three years ago, when officials of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit were thinking of opening an ALSO SEE:Charter Program Aims to Teach Success to Hispanic YoungstersHow ‘Charter’ Schools Are Run: a Primer elementary school that could serve…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
How a National Environmental Group Regained Control of Its Annual Gala
BRAINSTORMS By Domenica Marchetti Staff members at the National Parks Conservation Association, in Washington, did not panic when a longtime supporter who had sent his regrets for the organization’s annual fund-raising dinner last April showed up unexpectedly at the event. When the surprise guest…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor
Tips for Making a Leadership Transition Run Smoothly
IN THE TRENCHES By Marilyn Dickey A lot of people would have been too daunted to try to fill the shoes of Elizabeth Fox as executive director of Iona Senior Services. When Ms. Fox decided to step down four years ago, many people considered her an icon. In her 16 years with Iona, she had led the…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Q. What can program officers do to prepare for a foundation presidency? I find more foundation presidents coming from institutions of higher learning. Is this a trend? If so, how does this affect those of us who already work at foundations and want to move into the leadership role? A. There is more…
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
Moving From Sales Into Fund Raising
A sales professional obviously has an understanding of what motivates people to do things, whether it’s to buy a sweater, or to buy a car, or to motivate someone to make a contribution.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
Strategies for Handling Charity Leaders Who Can’t Give Up Control
IN THE TRENCHES By Tom Chalkley Carol was hired two years ago to serve as the first executive director of a youth-development organization. The founder, who served as the group’s de facto leader, was a volunteer who had hired several old friends as key staff members. Carol (who asked not to be…
By Tom Chalkley
Contributor
JOB MARKET By Elizabeth Greene Chief executives at large groups that provide or promote educational activities received a median pay increase of 22 percent this year, while leaders of large health and social-welfare organizations saw their median earnings increase 2.9 percent, according to a study…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
Diversity in the Nonprofit World
The experiences you bring will be important in assisting nonprofit leaders in responding to individual and community needs in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways.
By Alison Stein Wellner
Contributor
Rebates Sent to Charity Are Deductible
By Elizabeth Schwinn People who direct their credit-card companies to donate rebates to charity may deduct the rebates from their income taxes, the IRS has ruled. A credit-card issuer proposed to offer a credit card to benefit charity. Customers who use the card would earn a rebate on their…