New Technology Fund Will Provide Equipment
The Oracle Corporation, in Redwood Shores, Calif., has created a new grant-making organization to increase access to the Internet in schools and nonprofit organizations that serve young people from needy families. The company has committed to provide $6-million worth of equipment in the Oracle Help…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Tech Companies Team Up to Form Charity Site
AOL Time Warner, Cisco Systems, and Yahoo have joined together to start a new philanthropy Web site -- and a nonprofit organization to run it. The site, Network for Good, incorporates the tools and resources of Helping.org, the online giving site that the AOL Time Warner Foundation has operated…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$48,000 Is Average Pay for Canadian Charity CEO’s
Executive directors of Canadian charities this year make an average of $48,010 (U.S. dollars), according to a new survey by the Canadian Society of Association Executives, in Toronto. The society’s 20th annual compensation survey examined four levels of management at four types of nonprofit…
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Key Figure in American Jewish Philanthropy Linked to Israeli Investigation
Two small charities connected to one of the foremost figures in American Jewish philanthropy have been named in an Israeli investigation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s 1999 election campaign. Israel’s state comptroller says in a new report that three nonprofit organizations, two of them linked to…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Museums Given New Guidelines for the Art of Dealing With Business
The country’s largest museum group, admonishing its members to draw strict boundaries around the deals they strike with corporate donors, has called for museums to maintain control over their exhibitions and to disclose to the public the arrangements they make with contributors. The advice from the…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Easing of IRS Policy Lets Relief Groups Disburse Funds Regardless of Need
Charities that collected disaster-relief funds following the September terrorist attacks say they will now be able to distribute money far more quickly because the Internal Revenue Service has reversed its longstanding policy requiring nonprofit groups to support only people who are financially…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Red Cross Plans to Spend All Donations to Help September 11 Attack Victims
After enduring weeks of criticism, the American Red Cross appears to have assuaged the concerns of government officials and donors by declaring that it will spend all the money it collected after September 11 solely to help the victims of the terrorist attacks. Originally the charity had said it…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Relief Worker’s Advice: Tend to Your Own Needs as You Tend to Others
Dan Kurtenbach knows only too well the months and years of hard work that lie ahead for charity workers in New York, Washington, and elsewhere who are now helping people affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks. As president of Oklahoma Goodwill Industries in Oklahoma City at the time of the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Red Cross Chief: Keeping Volunteers Motivated After a Trauma
On the day of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, more than 1,000 people showed up at the offices of the local Red Cross to volunteer to help in the relief effort. ALSO SEE:The Long Road to RecoveryFoundation Director: Be Flexible With AidSocial-Services Director: Charities Should…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Social-Services Director: Charities Should Stick to Strengths
One of the best things charities can do at a time of crisis is stick to their strengths and do what they know best, ALSO SEE:The Long Road to RecoveryFoundation Director: Be Flexible With AidRelief Worker’s Advice: Tend to Your Own Needs as You Tend to OthersRed Cross Chief: Keeping Volunteers…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Foundation Director: Be Flexible With Aid
During the rush of the first few months after the Oklahoma City bombing, Nancy B. Anthony says she had no idea ALSO SEE:The Long Road to RecoverySocial-Services Director: Charities Should Stick to StrengthsRelief Worker’s Advice: Tend to Your Own Needs as You Tend to OthersRed Cross Chief: Keeping…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Oklahoma City’s efforts can be instructive to charity leaders all across the country as they review their own emergency-response plans in preparation for future threats.
The following awards have been presented for achievement in fund raising, management, research, and volunteerism: Health-care fund raising. The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (Falls Church, Va.) has given the 2001 Si Seymour National Award to Stuart R. Smith, president and chief executive…
United Way of America Appoints New CEO
United Way of America has chosen a United Way official from Ohio, Brian A. Gallagher, to be its new chief executive officer. Mr. Gallagher, president of United Way of Central Ohio, in Columbus, succeeds Betty S. Beene. United Way leaders across the country were informed of the appointment in an…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
‘Moment’: a Shortage of Jewish Personnel
A serious personnel crisis faces Jewish federations, community organizations, and schools, reports the Jewish magazine Moment (October). The shortage has been acknowledged since the mid-1980s, when the Council of Jewish Federations formed a special committee to examine the problem. And, ironically,…
By David Whelan
Contributor
‘Fast Company’: Cancer Society’s Challenge
Two years ago the American Cancer Society realized that many of the executives who lead its 18 autonomous divisions were nearing retirement age. According to the magazine Fast Company (October), the nonprofit organization communicated an unusual message to its 6,500-person workforce: Step forward…
By David Whelan
Contributor