American Liver Foundation (New York): Appointed Sandra Miller, executive director of the American London Symphony Orchestra (New York), to be senior manager of corporate relations. American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (New York): Appointed Christine M. Loomis, senior vice president at the U.S.…
A Sampling of Nonprofit Leadership Programs
Here are some of the most popular and prestigious leadership programs that include participants ALSO SEE:Grooming the Best and BrightestKellogg Builds on Former Fellowship Program With New Leadership SeriesLeadership Training Benefits Executives, but Not Always Their Charities from the nonprofit…
Just over a year ago, the Children’s Environmental Health Coalition, in Princeton, N.J., a health-education group that warns parents about toxins in homes and neighborhoods, aimed to improve the way it communicated with its constituents. But the group soon saw that its electronic message board and…
By Darlene M. Siska
Contributor
Two Theaters Find That Innovative Child-Care Programs Help Attract Busy Patrons
BRAINSTORMS By Kimberlee Roth Ten years ago, administrators at Center Stage in Baltimore were considering ways to increase season subscriptions. “We had been hearing for quite a while that our subscribers were struggling to manage a full season of theater around their busy lives, especially when…
By Kimberlee Roth
Contributor
How a Stint in the Peace Corps Planted the Seeds for a Career in Leadership Education
ENTRY LEVEL J.D. Hokoyama Age: 56 First job: Peace Corps Volunteer, Gore, Ethiopia Current job: President and chief executive officer of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Los Angeles I went to school at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. I studied English, and my plan was to be an…
IRS Issues Compendium of Studies on Charities
The Internal Revenue Service has released a compilation of previously published research data on tax-exempt organizations. The 850-page volume, which contains three dozen articles and papers, provides information on charities, private foundations, unrelated-business income taxes, and charitable…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Court Drops Case on ‘Parsonage Allowance’
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a case involving a law that allows ministers and other religious leaders to exclude from their gross income the money they receive from their employers to pay for housing. The issue arose in a dispute between the IRS and a California minister over…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Bills Would Raise Rate for Volunteers’ Car Use
Two bills introduced in Congress would help people who use their automobiles as part of their volunteer work for charities. Under federal law, volunteers who drive their cars for charitable purposes may be reimbursed up to 14 cents a mile without the payment’s being subject to income tax. The rate…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Congressman Seeks Tax-Form Change
Rep. Ernest J. Istook Jr., an Oklahoma Republican, is asking the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service to make a “modest change” in the Form 990 federal informational tax return filed by charities. Mr. Istook says the modification is needed to help the public get a better picture of the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for achievement in fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Community service. The Chicago Community Trust has presented its 2002 James Brown IV Award of Excellence for Outstanding Community Service to Housing Opportunities and…
Lessons on Increasing Youth Participation
What Works in Youth Participation: Case Studies From Around the World, edited by Sylvia Golombek, takes a look at factors that encourage or inhibit the involvement of young people in efforts to build community ties. These issues are explored through case studies of existing youth-participation…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Steering Clear of Self-Dealing Violations
Company Foundations and the Self-Dealing Rules, by Jane C. Nober, offers guidance for steering clear of violations of the self-dealing rules, which have caused particularly “knotty problems” for corporate foundations since they were added to the tax code in 1969, says Dorothy S. Ridings, chief…
By Katy Marquardt
Contributor
Groups Sue New York Officials Over Blue Cross Conversion
A consumers’ group and several health-care organizations have filed a lawsuit to block New York State from taking most of the approximately $1-billion that will become available as a result of the conversion of the nonprofit health insurer Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield into a for-profit…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
‘American Prospect’: Concern About Bush Plan
The American Prospect magazine’s Internet edition criticizes a terrorism-prevention program included in the Bush administration’s proposed volunteerism effort, the USA Freedom Corps. “Carefully tucked away among innocuous sounding proposals, such as tutoring inner-city children,” the article says,…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
‘New York’: Museum Board; Celebrity Charity
The Whitney Museum of American Art thought it had “landed the richest prize in town” when Tyco International’s chief executive, Dennis Kozlowski, joined its board in 2001, New York magazine reports (August 19). But one year and one corporate-accounting scandal later, museum officials are wondering…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest’s revamped Web site features a list of election-year dos and don’ts for nonprofit organizations, examples of successful nonprofit lobbying efforts, and a new service that allows visitors to e-mail their advocacy questions to the Washington organization’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor