TOOLS AND TRAINING By Heather Joslyn This fall, five to seven innovators in the field of public service will begin year-long fellowships that will pay them each nearly $53,000, pair them with mentors from the business world, and place them in work assignments at a variety of companies and programs…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Lessons Learned While Lobbying for College Students Aid Education Advocate Today
ENTRY LEVEL Kati Haycock Age: 51 First job: Co-director, University of California Student Lobby, Sacramento Current job: Director, Education Trust, Washington, D.C. I was one of those student-government people from elementary school on, so it’s probably not surprising that my first nonprofit job…
How Colleges Prepare Seniors for Postgraduate Volunteerism
VOLUNTEERISM By Heather Joslyn Last fall, Colleen Gilg, like thousands of other college seniors, was pondering her future. A government and international studies major at the University of Notre Dame from Paxton, Neb., she had traveled to Peru over the summer and become fascinated by it, so she was…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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What College Fund Raisers Make
JOB MARKET Median Salaries for Doctoral Institutions Chief development officer $147,335 Director of annual giving $68,618 Director of corporate and foundation relations $78,110 Director of planned giving $85,000 Chief public-relations officer $111,806 Director of government and legislative…
Median Salaries for College Fund Raisers Increase 4.6 Percent, Survey Says
JOB MARKET Median salaries for the top fund raisers at four-year colleges and universities ALSO SEE:What College Fund Raisers Make rose in the current academic year, but their counterparts at two-year institutions saw a decrease in median pay, according to the new edition of an annual survey by the…
Group Releases Figures on Charity Deductions
By Elizabeth Schwinn Using statistics from the Internal Revenue Service, RIA -- a tax information publisher -- has calculated the average deductions for charitable contributions taken in 1999 by taxpayers in seven tax brackets: Income Average contribution 1999 $35,000-49,999 $1,758 $50,000-74,999…
By Grant Williams and Elizabeth Schwinn
Asian Neighborhood Design (San Francisco): Appointed Augusta Catalina Del Zotto, a researcher and planner for the National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington), ALSO SEE:A Mission to Build Better Neighborhoods by Design to be executive director. Association for Canadian Studies in the United…
Write-Offs: IRS Eases Receipt Rule, Estate-Tax Vote Expected, and Ruling on September 11 Case
Recognizing that charities may have trouble keeping up with the flood of gifts they have received in the wake of the terrorist attacks, the IRS will ease its proof-of-donation rules for people who wish to claim deductions on some gifts of $250 or more. Under current law, in order to claim a…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Internet Group Retains Charity Status
The IRS has ruled that a charity that provides Internet access may keep its tax exemption, but only after the organization made key structural changes. In its ruling, which could be important to other Internet-services groups, the IRS said that the charity in question was recognized as tax-exempt…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Coalition to Push Electronic Filing
By Elizabeth Schwinn Several nonprofit associations have formed a coalition to help the IRS figure out how to make it easy for charities to file their federal informational tax returns electronically. The IRS is working on a project to enable charities to file online the tax forms they submit,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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A Mission to Build Better Neighborhoods by Design
Augusta Catalina Del Zotto was born in the Outer Mission, a working-class San Francisco neighborhood populated by a mosaic of first- and second-generation immigrants from many different countries. Except for a stint in a Syracuse, N.Y., graduate program, she has never lived away from her hometown.…
By DAVID WHELAN
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Software Aids Taxpayers Who Donate Goods
What’s the fair-market value of a pair of gently used Rollerblades? A box of old murder mysteries? Or a men’s three-piece business suit? As the April 15 tax deadline approaches, many Americans who want to claim a deduction for the goods they donated to charity find themselves facing these kinds of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Promotes Arab-Jewish Relations
Named for the common ancestor of both Jews and Arabs, the Abraham Fund makes grants to organizations working to improve relations between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel. Its latest tool, a new Web site, provides information about the organization’s work in Arabic, English, and Hebrew. “The…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Campaign Raises $94-Million
The United Negro College Fund, in Fairfax, Va., has raised $94-million for its Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign, with cash gifts accounting for $28-million and in-kind donations totaling $66-million. The goal of the campaign is to help the fund’s member institutions, 39 historically black…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Compassion Fatigue: Resources to Fight Burnout
The following resources can help identify and lead to treatment for compassion fatigue: The Compassion Fatigue Self-Test, ALSO SEE:Defeating Compassion Fatigue designed by Charles R. Figley, founder of the International Traumatology Institute, measures levels of compassion fatigue, burnout, and…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Charities seek ways to prevent employees from burning outA little more than a week after the September 11 attacks, the Rev. Bonny Dillon, who oversees bereavement services at Bon Secours Richmond Health Systems, ALSO SEE:Compassion Fatigue: Resources to Fight Burnout in Virginia, traveled to…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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