Head of Humanics Group Wants to Spread ‘Best Kept Secret’
Kala M. Stroup has spent her career in academic circles, as professor, dean, college president, and, currently, Missouri’s commissioner of higher education. Her next challenge also involves education of a sort -- informing the American nonprofit world about the little-known organization that she…
By Stephen G. Greene
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The following awards have been presented for achievement in corporate involvement, fund raising, nonprofit management, philanthropy, and other areas: Community development. The first-place prize in the JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition, which fosters partnerships between graduate…
Measuring the Success of a Collaborative Youth-Development Program
Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco, by Karen E. Walker and Amy J.A. Arbreton, describes and analyzes the Beacons Initiative, a project started in 1994 by a group of San Francisco leaders determined to transform public schools in low-income neighborhoods into youth and family…
By Katy Marquardt
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Analyzing Partnerships That Cut Across Sectors
What Works in Public/Private Partnering: Building Alliances for Youth Development, by William S. Reese, Cathryn L. Thorup, and Timothy K. Gerson, analyzes the experiences that the International Youth Foundation has had collaborating with a variety of partners, such as companies, nongovernmental…
By Katy Marquardt
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Case Studies of Successful Community-Based Programs
Solutions for America: What’s Already Out There
By Katy Marquardt
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Decision makers do not all agree on the best way for constituents to contact them, says a new report published by the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, in Washington. For e-mail activism networks to be effective, nonprofit organizations need to learn what form of communication officials…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County, in North Carolina, thinks that the computer is an essential appliance for the 21st-century home, not unlike a refrigerator or washing machine, and it has begun a $1-million project that by the end of the year will put a computer in every home the organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bringing Technology to the Global Village
The Hewlett-Packard Company, in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, Wash., have announced that they will earmark at least 20 percent of their philanthropy budgets for technology projects in developing countries. The companies made their pledges as they signed on to the CEO…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Groups Yield Billions for Economy, Study Finds
Nonprofit arts organizations and their patrons annually generate $134-billion in economic activity nationwide, according to a new study. The nonprofit arts industry also supports nearly five million jobs and delivers more than $24-billion in federal, state, and local taxes, the study says. The…
By Debra E. Blum
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Key Senate Committee Passes Legislation Aimed at Encouraging More People to Give to Charity
Washington The Senate Finance Committee has passed a package of tax proposals that, if enacted into law, would have a major impact on charities and donors. However, the measure, known as the Charity Aid, Recovery, and Empowerment (Care) Act of 2002, could have a tough time winning final passage.…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Red Cross Defends Its Fund Raising in Response to U.S. Senator
Washington In a 47-page response to lengthy inquiries from an influential U.S. senator, the American Red Cross conceded that it has faced a number of difficulties since September 11 but insisted that new fund-raising practices it recently put into place should satisfy concerns about its operations.…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Charity Partnerships: Sources of Information
Pew Center for Civic Change: The organization, in Charlottesville, Va., has recently ALSO SEE:Rethinking Nonprofit PartnershipsHelping Employees Get Through a Charity Merger published materials on successful collaborative efforts by groups seeking to solve social problems. The publications were…
Rethinking Nonprofit Partnerships
Lessons learned help groups do better job of collaboratingAs charities grapple with cuts in state funds and declines in corporate and foundation grants, ALSO SEE:Helping Employees Get Through a Charity MergerCharity Partnerships: Sources of Information the search for new charity partnerships, and…
By DAVID WHELAN
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Aid to Artisans (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Jill Hobson Kassis, executive director of the ALSO SEE:Head of Humanics Group Wants to Spread ‘Best Kept Secret’ U.S. headquarters of the King Hussein Foundation International (Washington), to be executive vice president. Alliance for Justice…
Helping Employees Get Through a Charity Merger
When the American Cancer Society’s New England offices merged to form one regional division in the ALSO SEE:Rethinking Nonprofit PartnershipsCharity Partnerships: Sources of Information mid-1990s, every employee except the chief executive officer had to reapply for a job in the new organization.…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Staying Connected to a Charity’s Mission After a Move Into Management
IN THE TRENCHES By Tom Chalkley Jean has always felt called to the front lines of antipoverty work. Her enthusiasm for helping the homeless and hungry led first, a couple of decades ago, to a stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a group that helps people in poor neighborhoods. Progressing through a…
By Tom Chalkley
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