Internet-Based Software Suppliers: a Sampling
ALSO SEE: Remote Possibilities Some Tips for Charities Looking to Lease Software A Guide to Technology Resources for Charities All Aboard Nonvirtual Reality Hits Giving Sites The Richest Link MULTIPLE-PURPOSE SYSTEMS4charity (San Francisco) BACKGROUND: Founded in 1998 as a charity shopping site by…
A Guide to Technology Resources for Charities
Cybergifts Application service providers have been a frequent topic of conversation on Cybergifts, an e-mail discussion list about Internet fund raising. ALSO SEE:Remote PossibilitiesSome Tips for Charities Looking to Lease SoftwareInternet-Based Software Suppliers: a SamplingAll AboardNonvirtual…
Rather than buy sophisticated software systems, some charities find it pays to lease them via the InternetFor years, Ted Allison, the one-man membership department at KBEM-FM in Minneapolis, kept track of the public-radio station’s membership list using simple word-processing software. ALSO…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How Much Big Charities Are Raising Online
ALSO SEE:All Aboard How Chronicle Conducted Online Fund-Raising Survey Nonvirtual Reality Hits Giving Sites Remote Possibilities The Richest Link Organization Amount raised via the Internet Total private support Campus Crusade for Christ International (Orlando, Fla.) $2,500,000 $350,000,000…
How Chronicle Conducted Online Fund-Raising Survey
To conduct its online fund-raising survey, The Chronicle contacted 402 nonprofit organizations, 181 of which responded. Of those, 100 said that they had received online donations in the 2000 fiscal year. ALSO SEE:All AboardHow Much Big Charities Are Raising OnlineNonvirtual Reality Hits Giving…
Nonvirtual Reality Hits Giving Sites
As online companies fail, others seek ways to click with donorsAs one of scores of dot-com entrepreneurs who hoped to make money by raising money over the Internet for nonprofit groups, Tracey Pettengill counts her company among the lucky ones still standing. ALSO SEE:All AboardRemote…
By Janet L. Fix
Contributor
More and more large nonprofit groups are raising money online, new Chronicle survey findsA growing number of large nonprofit groups raise money online, according to a new Chronicle survey. ALSO SEE:How Much Big Charities Are Raising OnlineHow Chronicle Conducted Online Fund-Raising SurveyNonvirtual…
By Laura Hruby
Contributor
Slow start for online giving leads to new Internet approachesMore than a dozen Internet companies that served nonprofit groups have gone out of business. High-technology donors whom many charities had been wooing for major gifts have sustained major stock losses. Virtually no charity has persuaded…
American U. in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad): Announced the retirement of Norma S. Tucker, director of development and university relations, effective in September. Capital Research Center (Washington): Appointed John K. Carlisle, director of the Environmental Policy Task Force at the National Center for…
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (Washington): Appointed Debra M. Campbell, former member of the government-relations staff at the American Nurses Association (Washington), to be director of governmental affairs. American Red CrossGreater New York Chapter: Appointed Dolores Swirin,…
Write-Offs: Hearing on IRS Sanctions; Tax Agency Issues Ruling on Foundation
By ELIZABETH SCHWINN The I.R.S. has scheduled a hearing for July 31 to discuss regulations designed to crack down on people who receive improper financial benefits from tax-exempt organizations. The Treasury Department issued temporary regulations to enforce the so-called intermediate sanctions law…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Treasury Declines Request for Competition Report
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNThe Treasury Department has decided not to prepare a report that members of Congress had requested on competition between for-profit and nonprofit health and fitness organizations. The department told the House Small Business Committee that the agency believes current tax laws…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
I.R.S. Seeks to Simplify Salary-Disclosure Rules
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNNonprofit organizations are being asked by the I.R.S. for their suggestions on how to simplify salary-disclosure requirements. The tax agency said it was concerned that many charities have said the rules are too hard to follow. Charities are required to list the salaries of…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
IRS Acts to Ease Overseas Grant Making
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNThe Internal Revenue Service has issued a statement that could make it easier for private foundations to award grants to organizations outside the United States. The statement is intended to reduce the amount of paperwork foundations must do when awarding overseas grants. Before…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Corporate giving. President Bush and the Conference Board have named the recipients of this year’s Ron Brown Awards for Corporate Leadership: -- Alcoa (Pittsburgh) for its safety program, which reduced…
Cost Efficiency Doesn’t Sway Donors, Study Shows
Strategic Positioning and the Financing of Nonprofit Organizations: Is Efficiency Rewarded in the Contributions Marketplace?, by Peter Frumkin and Mark T. Kim, examines the question of whether donors reward nonprofit groups that demonstrate superior financial and operational efficiency. Mr.…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor