Charities Find Ways to Screen Volunteers Despite Insufficient Funds, Time
Streetcats Foundation for Youth never lacks for willing volunteers. “For all our national projects,we get a ton of people wanting to volunteer every single day,” says Don Fass, the charity’s leader. The organization, in Oakland, Calif., runs a number of child- and youth-oriented programs, and…
By Sandy Asirvatham
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Resources for Screening Volunteers
VOLUNTEERISM Books The following titles are available through the Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s Web site: Staff Screening Tool Kit: Building a Strong Foundation ALSO SEE:Charities Find Ways to Screen Volunteers Despite Insufficient Funds, Time Through Careful Staffing, by John C. Patterson…
The following awards have been presented for achievement in fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas: Arts. The McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) has given its 2002 Distinguished Artist Award to Emilie Buchwald, publisher of Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis), a nonprofit…
A Specialist in Geriatrics to Head Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nearly two decades ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation identified Risa Lavizzo-Mourey as an up-and-coming leader in health care and awarded her a top scholarly honor. The foundation-supported post-residency training and research program reaffirmed the young doctor’s decision to follow a career…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Women and Minorities Slowly Gain Board Seats, Report Says
By Nicole Lewis The percentage of women and minorities on foundation boards has grown significantly in the past ALSO SEE: Foundation Boards: Composition and Compensation two decades, but white males still account for nearly two-thirds of all board members, according to a survey by the Council on…
By nicole lewis
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D.C. United Way’s Troubles Cause Concern Elsewhere
Continued controversy at the United Way of the National Capital Area is causing some United Ways outside Washington to take steps to assure their donors that all is well -- especially as many organizations prepare for fall fund-raising campaigns. Many United Ways are also reviewing their own…
By Harvy Lipman
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Bits: Grants Aid Technology Projects, Fund-Raising Tips for Groups That Help Animals
The United Negro College Fund, in Fairfax, Va., has received $25-million worth of software from the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash. This gift brings the total that the fund has raised for its Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign (The Chronicle, April 4) to $118.9-million in cash,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Group Starts Site to Aid Poor
Two years ago the Children’s Partnership, a public-policy organization in Santa Monica, Calif., released research findings that identified a lack of useful information on the Internet for people who are poor or are members of minority groups, have limited literacy skills, or do not speak English.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lighthearted E-Mail Drive Raises $80,000
Grist Magazine describes its environmental coverage as “gloom and doom with a sense of humor” -- an irreverent approach that the online publication successfully applied to its first e-mail fund-raising campaign. Based in Seattle, Grist publishes a daily e-mail digest that summarizes the day’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Donation Site Helps U.K. Charities
A new giving site allows donors in the United Kingdom to make online contributions to any charity in the country -- regardless of whether those groups have an Internet presence of their own. GiveNow.org is a joint project of the Charities Aid Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Kent, England,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California Telemarketer Sentenced for Charity Fraud
Mitchell Gold, a California telemarketer, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail-fraud and money-laundering charges involving $1.5-million he raised in the name of charities but kept for himself. Mr. Gold also pleaded guilty to running a golf-club sales…
By Harvy Lipman
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Essays on Arts-Centered Schools
Planning an Arts-Centered School: a Handbook, edited by Carol Fineberg, consists of 18 essays by artists and educators on the development of schools devoted to the arts, covering such issues as governance, funding, curriculum, student recruitment, community participation, and collaboration with…
By Katy Marquardt
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Examining Group Mentor Programs
Group Mentoring: a Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs, by Carla Herrera, Zoua Vang, and Lisa Y. Gale, explores programs in which volunteers interact regularly with small groups of young people in lieu of one-on-one counsel and guidance, a method that has gained popularity because…
By Katy Marquardt
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Simplifying the Search for a New Chief Executive
The search for a new chief executive can be a labor-intensive, high-stakes rite of passage for a board of directors, says the author of Chief Executive Succession Planning: the Board’s Role in Securing Your Organization’s Future.
By Katy Marquardt
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White House Releases Ads to Promote Service
President Bush last week unveiled a new advertising campaign to encourage Americans to devote 4,000 hours over their lifetimes to helping charities and performing other types of public service. The “Everyone Can Do Something” campaign includes print, radio, and television ads produced by the Bush…
By Ian Wilhelm
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State Budget Woes Imperil Financial Future of Many Nonprofit Groups
Glenna Norvelle has had a frantically busy summer, organizing fund-raising kaffeeklatsches and holding ALSO SEE:Off the Charts hopeful meetings with potential supporters of Colorado Youth at Risk, the mentor program for troubled high-school kids that she runs in Denver. The frenzy of activity has…
By DAVID WHELAN
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