Foundation Support for Environmental-Justice Projects
Green of Another Color: Building Effective Partnerships Between Foundations and the Environmental Justice Movement, by Daniel R. Faber and Deborah McCarthy, presents the findings of a year-and-a-half-long study of foundation grant making to environmental-justice causes. An estimated 0.2 percent of…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Calculating the Costs to Government of Helping the Homeless
Financial Implications of Public Interventions on Behalf of a Chronically Homeless Family, by Ellen Hart-Shegos, calculates the price of government assistance for a homeless family in Minneapolis from 1991 to 1999. The study tracks the costs of child care, housing, health care, substance-abuse…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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N.Y. Children’s Shelter Accused of Misusing Funds
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNNew York’s attorney general is investigating charges of financial mismanagement at Hale House Center, a Harlem children’s shelter. Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer named a six-member interim board to oversee the organization, and he subpoenaed its financial records after the…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Making Weddings Into Charitable Events
By NICOLE WALLACEAt a time when engaged couples can post online gift registries with Tiffany & Company, Crate and Barrel, and even the camping store REI, a new Web site is encouraging couples to think about how they can incorporate giving into their wedding plans. MarriedForGood.com profiles…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Multimillion-Dollar Gift Pledged Online
By NICOLE WALLACEA Baltimore lawyer has pledged $2.5-million to United Cerebral Palsy over four years -- and he plans to donate the entire amount through the organization’s Web site. On May 15 at the National Press Club, in Washington, Stephen L. Snyder used his credit card to make the first…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Gifts Boost Comics’ Charity Act
By NICOLE WALLACEA charity in the United Kingdom founded by comedians combined star power, whimsy, and a good cause to raise £50-million, or more than $70-million -- with £3.6-million, or more than $5-million, coming in online. Every two years, as part of its Red Nose Day campaign, Comic Relief…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Theater Survey Indicates Improved Financial Health
Nearly 70 percent of nonprofit theaters that responded to a survey operated in the black last year, up from 62 percent in 1999, a new report says. ALSO SEE: Nonprofit Theaters: a Statistical Profile The report by the Theatre Communications Group, a New York organization that represents nonprofit…
By Debra E. Blum
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Fighting Poverty: an Excerpt of a Speech by President Bush
Following is an excerpt from a speech President Bush delivered on the role of philanthropy ALSO SEE:Bush Decries Level of Corporate Giving to Faith Groups and government in fighting poverty. He spoke at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Notre Dame:Notre Dame, as a Catholic university,…
How Pay for Men and Women Differs in Senior Charity Jobs
ALSO SEE:Unbalanced Pay Scales Chief Executive Officer Budget Female Male Average More than $50-million $217,175 $320,263 $307,269 $25-million to $49.9-million $163,664 $214,091 $204,243 $10-million to $24.9-million $114,372 $155,990 $145,703 $5-million to $9.9-million $93,054 $121,731 $112,703…
Bush Decries Level of Corporate Giving to Faith Groups
By LAURA HRUBYPresident Bush has accused corporate America of discriminating against faith-based groups by refusing to make charitable awards to their programs “regardless of their effectiveness.” ALSO SEE:Fighting Poverty: an Excerpt of a Speech by President Bush Mr. Bush, speaking at the…
By Laura Hruby
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New study of salaries at 75,000 charities finds big disparities based on employee’s gender, group’s size and typeSenior female executives at the nation’s nonprofit organizations are routinely paid less than men in similar jobs, according to a new study by GuideStar, a Web site that distributes…
By Harvy Lipman
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Write-Offs: A Report on Charity Tax Credits; the IRS Names Members of Advisory Committee
By GRANT WILLIAMS A new report, “Charity Tax Credits,” paid for by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, warns Congress to beware of a Bush administration proposal. The president wants to allow states to offer charity tax credits to individuals and companies for gifts to anti-poverty groups, and allow the…
Report Says Donors Could Give Billions More
By GRANT WILLIAMSAmericans last year could have “comfortably” donated to charity more than double the estimated $150-billion that they actually did contribute, according to estimates released by a San Francisco organization that is trying to encourage wealthy people to give more. The financial…
IRS Official Offers Regulatory Advice
By GRANT WILLIAMSThe chief regulator of tax-exempt organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, has written a plain-language explanation of some of the federal rules for charities that are trying to make sure that they are not paying excess compensation to their top officials.…
The following awards have been presented for work in management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Advocacy. The Gleitsman Foundation (Malibu, Calif.) has selected Bernard Krisher and Martin Macwan to share the 2001 International Activist Award and its $100,000 prize for their work to empower poor…
Gender Gap in Management Found at Chicago Charities
By NICOLE LEWISMale C.E.O.'s of human-service charities in Chicago are more likely to run large organizations than are female chief executives, a new study has found. As a result, they are also more likely to earn more than $100,000 a year, the study found. While women work as top executives at…
By nicole lewis
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