Congress Relaxes Rules on Disaster Aid Provided by Company Foundations
Corporate foundations would be able to provide direct financial assistance to employees of the company or their families who suffered losses as the result of a disaster, under a law passed by Congress last week. The legislation was prompted by a desire to help corporate funds make grants to…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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How Much Charitable Funds Have Raised and Distributed for September 11 Recovery Efforts
AMERICAN RED CROSSName of fund: Liberty Disaster Relief Fund
Charity Executives’ Median Pay Is $42,000, Report Says
JOB MARKET By Harvy Lipman The median salary for chief executives of nonprofit organizations is $42,000 -- less than what private companies typically pay people in jobs carrying far less responsibility, such as computer programmers, construction managers, and dental hygienists, according to a new…
By Harvy Lipman
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Foundation Pay Raises Held Steady in 2000
JOB MARKET By Heather Joslyn Median salaries at community, family, independent, and public foundations rose 5 percent last year, while corporate grantmakers gave median salary raises of 4 percent, according to a new survey by the Council on Foundations. The raises kept pace with those reported…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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Tips for Recruiting the Best Board Members
IN THE TRENCHES By Tom Chalkley Last year, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, which provides management advice and training to more than 1,100 members, spun off from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. In the process, the center’s executive director, Karen Beavor, found herself practicing…
By Tom Chalkley
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Recruiting and Managing a Board: a Sampling of Resources
IN THE TRENCHES Articles from The Chronicle: Building a Better Board, February 12, 1998 When Board Members Are Not Rich, October 2, 1997 New Blood in the Board Room, February 6, 1997 Charity Leaders Say Fund Raising Is a Nonprofit Board Members’ Chief Weakness, December 13, 1994 How to Help…
The IRS has warned people who want to donate cars to charity not to inflate the value of their vehicles, saying that some operators of charitable-donation programs are encouraging donors to deduct more than the fair-market value of the cars. It also warned donors to make sure the charities that…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Group Loses Battle Over State Charity Law
A white supremacist group that says it is not a charity but a church suffered a legal setback when the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a law governing charitable organizations. The ruling means that the group, the World Church of the Creator, might be required to register as…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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New Mexico to Put Charity Data Online
New Mexico is working with Philanthropic Research, a nonprofit group in Williamsburg, Va., that posts charities’ financial data on its GuideStar Web site, to disseminate information on charities that operate in New Mexico. New Mexico will be the first state to work with Philanthropic Research on…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Religious Charity Seeks Exemption for Theme Park
A religious charity that runs a Christian theme park in Orlando, Fla., is suing Orange County to receive a property-tax exemption after county officials denied the exemption. The charity, Zion’s Hope, in February opened the Holy Land Experience, which features a depiction of Jesus’s tomb and aims…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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The following awards have been presented for achievement in leadership, management, research, and volunteerism: Grass-roots leaders. The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) has presented its 2001 Nancy Susan Reynolds Awards honoring North Carolinians who have worked largely without…
New Director Strives to Keep Dance Company on its Toes
After mustering the courage to audition for his college’s chorus, Jeffrey H. James found that ALSO SEE:About Jeffrey H. James, Executive Director of the Cunningham Dance Foundation his strength lay not in singing but in helping manage the group, mainly by selling its records at concerts and…
By nicole lewis
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Policies and Programs to Promote Low-Wage Workers’ Steady Employment and Advancement, by Carol Clymer, Brandon Roberts, and Julie Strawn, examines recent efforts by state policy makers and local practitioners to find ways to help low-income workers remain employed and advance in their jobs. The…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Housing-Development Programs: Assessing What Difference They Make
Measuring the Economic Impact of Community-Based Homeownership Programs on Neighborhood Revitalization, by Lindley R. Higgins, assesses the economic impact of housing-development programs on five neighborhoods in Houston, Seattle, Washington, and Kalamazoo, Mich., in an effort to complement…
By Laura Hruby
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‘Mother Jones’: Volunteer Vacations
Global Volunteers sends 2,000 Americans a year on public-service missions to impoverished countries, but based on one volunteer’s experience renovating a community center in Hagley Gap, Jamaica, “it’s hard to tell who’s helping whom,” reports Mother Jones (December). Bud Philbrook, a Minnesota…
By David Whelan
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‘Christianity Today’: Relief-Charity Appeals
Do Christian relief organizations manipulate donors with guilt-inducing pleas for money, or are the groups making honest and direct appeals? That question is explored in an article in Christianity Today (December 3), written by Ken Waters, a journalism professor at Pepperdine University, and a…
By Debra E. Blum
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