Bits: Conference Rescheduled, Social-Services Newsletter, and a 990 Primer
The third annual e-Philanthropy conference, which was cancelled in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, has been rescheduled for March 4-5 in McLean, Va. For more information: Go to http://www.independentsector.org for registration materials, as well as to view a summary of the 2000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Discussion List Limited to Association Members
The National Committee on Planned Giving has decided to restrict participation on its popular e-mail discussion list, GIFT-PL, to the organization’s members. The Indianapolis organization announced the decision in an e-mail message to list subscribers on December 17. “NCPG has operated the list…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Most Charities in Study Find Technology Essential
More than 80 percent of executives at human-service organizations say that information technology has changed their organizations’ daily operations over the past five years, with 87 percent calling information technology either important or essential, according to a new survey. The study also…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New study of 2000 compensation shows that most grant makers received raises that outpaced inflationMedian salaries at community, family, independent, and public foundations rose 5 percent last year, while corporate grant makers gave median salary ALSO SEE:Charity Executives’ Median Pay Is $42,000,…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Health-Charity Executive Takes Responsibility to Heart
For Janet M. Brooks, reaching out to minorities to help prevent heart disease is a personal mission. Ms. Brooks, who was recently appointed vice president for the American Heart Association’s ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth new National Minority Initiatives, has had close family…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Pitching Education for Hispanics
Former AT&T marketing executive helps scholarship fund flourishWhen Sara Martinez Tucker joined the board of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund in 1992, ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth it was a small operation that handed out about $3-million per year to approximately 1,000 Latino…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
A Woman’s Quest for Independence
Minnesota charity founded by Laotian immigrant helps Asian women adjust to life far from the rice fieldsWhen Ly Vang was a girl in northern Laos, she resolved not to become a housewife like ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth those who came to her father, the chief of the province, for…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
Making a Place for Arab-Americans
Detroit advocate faces challenges in raising funds and securing future for social-services groupDearborn, Mich. Ismael Ahmed admits that his Arabic is awful. Yet the Brooklyn-born 54-year-old ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth has become an Arab-American leader through a charity he…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Protecting Rights and Opening Doors
A persistent litigation director helps a California group serve Asians and other minoritiesLos Angeles Barely a year out of Harvard Law School, Julie A. Su took Montgomery Ward and ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth several other major clothing companies to court, charging that they…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Promoting Programs to Help Blacks
Business entrepreneur leads a major expansion of charity’s efforts to serve needy youngstersSince the first group calling itself 100 Black Men formed in 1963, 100 people have ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth multiplied into 8,000, and one small organization into 94 chapters. Today,…
By Elizabeth Greene
Contributor
Preserving Her Heritage: an American Indian’s Struggle
Activist devotes her life to preserving native cultures and shaking up philanthropyAs a girl in Pearl River, N.Y., in the 1950s, Dagmar Thorpe had visions of a future ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic Wealth that were at once modest and grandiose. “I wanted to be a teacher, and I wanted to…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Immigration-Rights Organizations Face Fallout From September 11
Fresno, Calif. Late last summer, nonprofit groups supporting immigrants’ rights were on a roll. Amnesty for people who are illegally in the United States, once a taboo subject ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteCultivating Opportunity in political circles, was a common topic of discussion on Capitol Hill.…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Foundation-backed coalition helps immigrants in California’s Central Valley gain rights and citizenshipFresno, Calif. At dawn, a pale sun rises over distant mountains and fights its way through ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic WealthSeeking a Bigger ShareMinority Homeowners Give More to…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Minority Homeowners Give More to Charity Than Whites, Study Finds
Homeowners who live in neighborhoods that are predominantly black or Hispanic donate a ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic WealthSeeking a Bigger ShareCultivating OpportunityPercentage of Income Donated to Charity (Javascript required) greater percentage of their income to charity than do…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Leaders of minority-run groups argue that foundations fall short in their support of ethnic charitiesDuring a National Philanthropy Day luncheon at a San Francisco hotel recently, demonstrators ALSO SEE:A Changing PaletteTapping Ethnic WealthMinority Homeowners Give More to Charity Than Whites,…
By Debra E. Blum and Michael Anft
Looking Back on an Internship That Built a Lifelong Commitment to Preventive Care
ENTRY LEVEL Susan Kamp Age: 42 Current job: Executive director, Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation, Burlington First job: Education department intern, Planned Parenthood, Syracuse, N.Y. My career plans changed dramatically the beginning of my sophomore year at Syracuse University, in 1978. I had…