The following awards have been presented for work in management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Education. Spelman College (Atlanta) has received the 2001 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Award for Excellence, which recognizes overall excellence and significant improvement in an educational…
Tobacco-Control Groups Teach Lessons About Coalition Building
Working Together, Moving Ahead: A Manual to Support Effective Community Health Coalitions, by Shoshanna Sofaer, uses the experiences of tobacco-control coalitions to make broader points about the ways in which people can create and manage successful cooperative organizations. The manual covers the…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Using Media to Promote Social Change
Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change, by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, presents 50 stories of groups worldwide that promote social change using community radio, video, theater, the Internet, and other media. Those organizations sought to empower poor communities “to…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Awards Honor Grant Makers’ Efforts to Apprise the Public of Their Work
The Council on Foundations this week will present 98 awards to honor grant ALSO SEE:Winners of the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards makers for creating materials to educate the public about their work. The 18th annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications, named after the council’s…
Salaries of New York Fund Raisers Rose 15% in 2000, New Survey Finds
By GRANT WILLIAMSSalaries paid to fund raisers at nonprofit organizations in the New York ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Pay: Salary Ranges at Organizations in New York City City area generally increased 15 to 20 percent from 1999 to 2000, says a new report on compensation. Over all, the report said, nonprofit…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Online Newsletters Offer Technology Advice
By NICOLE WALLACESeveral new electronic newsletters offer charities free advice about how to use information technology in their work and in their fund raising. Published monthly by two nonprofit technology consultants, Marc Osten and Michael Stein, Dot Org offers charities advice on how to use…
By NICOLE WALLACE
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Bay Area Collaboration to Help Charities
By NICOLE WALLACECompuMentor and the Management Center, two San Francisco organizations that provide technology assistance to other nonprofit groups, have announced a partnership in which they will work together to help charities develop and carry out strategic technology plans. Each organization…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Antismoking Site Turns For-Profit
By NICOLE WALLACEA Boston public-health charity is spinning off its online smoking-prevention program as a for-profit company. Since its creation in 1995, QuitNet has provided information and support to people who are trying to break their dependence on nicotine. The site was started as a project…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Florida Church Leaders Convicted of Fraud
By DEBRA E. BLUMFive leaders of a religious organization in Florida have been convicted in federal court of conspiracy, money laundering, and fraud in one of the nation’s largest scams involving a nonprofit group. A Tampa jury found the leaders of Greater Ministries International -- Haywood Eudon…
By Debra E. Blum
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Religious Leaders Assail Bush Plan to Aid Faith Groups
By LAURA HRUBY and HARVY LIPMANA broad alliance of clergy members who oppose the Bush administration’s proposal to give more federal money to faith-based groups said last week that the plan would allow such groups to discriminate in their hiring practices and would invite government intrusion into…
By Harvy Lipman
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New California law may overburden drug-treatment programs in stateIn two months, nonprofit drug-treatment centers throughout California will probably be inundated with clients seeking help kicking their addictions. The clients will be sent to them instead of the state’s prisons, courtesy of a new…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Estate-Tax Repeal Faces Hurdle in Senate
By JANET L. FIXWhen the Senate returns from its spring recess next week, President Bush faces an uphill fight to eliminate the estate tax, a move that some people fear could hurt charitable giving. Having convinced the House to pass a repeal of the tax, Mr. Bush must now win over a Senate evenly…
By Janet L. Fix
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Audit Rate Drops Sharply for Nonprofit Groups
By JANET L. FIXEnforcement efforts by the Internal Revenue Service against tax-exempt organizations have slowed considerably in the past decade, according to new data provided by the I.R.S. in response to questions from The Chronicle. Only 8,611 of the 641,383 returns filed by tax-exempt…
By Janet L. Fix
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Artists Examine How to Develop International Audiences
Working Paper #2: Developing Audiences for International Artistic Collaboration examines theoretical and practical methods of helping to grow audiences for international artistic cooperation. The paper includes case studies, discussion summaries, and a commissioned essay presented in Seattle in May…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Handbook Gives Advice to Executive Directors
Core Elements of a Successful Nonprofit: A Practical Guide for Executive Directors of Nonprofit Organizations, by Marilyn L. Donnellan, discusses the management challenges particular to nonprofit groups. Ms. Donnellan, founder and chief executive officer of Nonprofit Management Services, developed…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Multiple Sclerosis Association Settles Lawsuit Filed by N.J.
By HARVY LIPMANThe Multiple Sclerosis Association of America and two of its former officers have agreed to pay the state of New Jersey $225,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general’s Division of Consumer Affairs. The attorney general had accused the association, its founder and…
By Harvy Lipman
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