E-Mail Promotion Powers Bikeathon
Riders who sign up for the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a two-day charity bikeathon, agree to raise at least $1,000 for cancer care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston. This summer participants in the August ride got an electronic boost for their fund-raising efforts.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Resource for Disabled Students
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, a nonprofit organization in Princeton, N.J., hopes that its new digitally recorded textbooks will make reading assignments and research a little easier for students who have physical or learning disabilities. This week the organization will introduce its new…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Battle Between Hershey Trust and Pennsylvania Turns Bitter
Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher and the charitable trust that controls the giant Hershey Foods Corporation are fighting over the ramifications of the possible sale of the company. Mr. Fisher has asked the state’s Orphans’ Court, which oversees charitable trusts, for a temporary…
Senator Seeks Financial Information From American Red Cross Leaders
Washington The American Red Cross is facing a new set of questions from a key U.S. senator. In May, Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, sent the Red Cross 39 questions about its fund-raising ALSO SEE:D.C. United Way Faces New Scrutiny practices following the September terrorist attacks. He…
D.C. United Way Faces New Scrutiny
Charity is under review by federal officials; United Way of America leader seeks changesThe United Way of America, the national umbrella organization of local United Ways, is under ALSO SEE:Senator Seeks Financial Information From American Red Cross Leaders Congressional scrutiny because of alleged…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Tips for Coping With a Media Frenzy
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s longstanding crisis-communications policy -- which it put ALSO SEE:In Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in Nonprofit GroupsTerrorist Attacks Did Not…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
How a College Battled a September 11 Rumor That Threatened Its Image
Early on the morning of September 11, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University suffered a personal loss: ALSO SEE:Tips for Coping With a Media FrenzyIn Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Nonprofit Groups Face Higher Insurance Costs and Limited Coverage
In mid-May, the Hemophilia Association of New York received a notice from its insurance company: Its commercial-liability ALSO SEE:In Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in Nonprofit…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Memorial Gardens Bloom Across the Country
Across the United States, in schools, town squares, sports fields, and elsewhere, people have been planting memorial gardens to remember those who died or were injured in last year’s terrorist attacks. Among them are countless Liberty Gardens that have been planted as part of the Great American…
Appeals Take Variety of Tacks as September 11 Draws Near
As September 11 approaches, fund raisers at Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio, are treating the institution’s ALSO SEE:In Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in Nonprofit GroupsTerrorist…
By DAVID WHELAN
Contributor
Family of Slain American Journalist Promotes Peace Through Charity
Daniel Pearl loved turning conventional wisdom on its head. As South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. ALSO SEE:In Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in Nonprofit…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor
Carol Pulin admires the memorial to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, its field of empty chairs all facing in one direction, small chairs for children, larger ones for adults. But that is a memorial for 168 people, says Ms. Pulin -- a number that is easier to grasp than the approximately…
Rockefeller September 11 Fund Focused on Support for Poor and Excluded
On September 11, senior managers at the Rockefeller Foundation and members of its board of trustees ALSO SEE:In Disaster’s WakeLearning the Lessons of September 11: Charities Reassess How They Handled Aid42% of Americans Say Relief Effort Damaged Faith in Nonprofit GroupsTerrorist Attacks Did Not…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor