‘U.S. News’: Ranking Nonprofit Programs
Harvard University has the best nonprofit-management program in the country, says U.S. News & World Report (April 9). In an examination of programs at public-affairs graduate schools, the magazine said Indiana University at Bloomington followed Harvard. Placing No. 3 was the University of…
‘Business Week’: Earmarking Gifts
More and more donors are “restricting gifts, large and small, to projects that reflect their values and priorities,” says Business Week (April 9). With the economy weakened, donors “have a lot of leverage today to negotiate what they want with charities,” Joanne Johnson, a wealth adviser at J.P.…
‘National Journal’: High-Tech Philanthropy
Despite the collapse of technology stocks, many dot-com executives still have plenty of money to give away to good causes, and those donors could have a significant influence on major social issues, says National Journal (March 31), a magazine that covers public policy. If the past is any…
Bits: Awards Program Suspended; Dot-Com Philanthropy Ventures Parodied
By NICOLE WALLACE On April 2, Ericsson, a Stockholm telecommunications company, announced the third annual Ericsson Internet Community Awards, or ERICA, which were to have awarded $500,000 in Web development services and equipment to charities with innovative technology ideas. But the program has…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundations Urge Creation of ‘Digital Trust’
By NICOLE WALLACEA new report calls for the creation of a national trust to promote the innovative use of information technology in education. “A Digital Gift to the Nation,” published by the Century Foundation, recommends that the federal government use the proceeds from the auction of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Civic-Action Groups Benefit From Dot-Com Decline
By NICOLE WALLACEElection season may be over, but the deal making hasn’t slowed for organizations that use the Internet to educate voters and encourage citizens to participate in the political process. Two charities have been the beneficiaries of failed dot-com political portals, and two others…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A World of Caring: U.N. Issues 6 Stamps to Mark the International Year of Volunteers
To celebrate the International Year of Volunteers, the United Nations Postal Administration last month issued six commemorative stamps. The United Nations General Assembly voted in 1997 to declare this year a time when volunteer contributions would be recognized and promoted worldwide. The stamps…
Faith-Based Initiative Gets Mixed Support in Pew Poll
By LAURA HRUBYSeven of 10 Americans support proposals to provide government subsidies ALSO SEE:Government Aid to Religious Groups: What Americans Want to religious groups that run social-service programs, according to results of a nationwide poll released last week. But the majority of Americans…
By Laura Hruby
Contributor
Boy Scout Debate Tears at the Heart of a United Way in Florida
By DEBRA E. BLUMWhen the Heart of Florida United Way, in Orlando, decided last fall to ALSO SEE:Divided in Support of Scouts institute an antidiscrimination policy for the charities it supports, it found itself in the center of a tempest. Like many of its counterparts in other cities, the Heart of…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
United Ways struggle to balance donors’ interests in bias debateMany United Ways across the country have found themselves on the spot ALSO SEE:Boy Scout Debate Tears at the Heart of a United Way in Florida following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Boy Scouts of America’s right to…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
ALS AssociationGreater Philadelphia Chapter (Fort Washington, Pa.): Appointed James Pinciotti, vice president at the Gleason Insurance Agency (Malvern, Pa.), to be executive director. The ALS Association offers support to individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s…
Philanthropy and President Bush’s Budget: the Key Proposals
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNPresident Bush last week proposed $258-million in new grant programs for religious ALSO SEE: President Bush’s Budget charities and other groups that provide social services. The House and Senate will spend the next few months debating President Bush’s budget proposals as they…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Guide Seeks to Demystify Intermediate-Sanctions Law
Arthur Andersen Guide to Navigating Intermediate Sanctions: Compliance and Documentation Guidelines for Health Care and Other Tax-Exempt Organizations, by Diane Cornwell, Vincent J. Crowley, Jeffrey D. Frank, and Anne M. McGeorge, provides organizations that are tax-exempt under Sections 501(c)(3)…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
California Shakespeare Festival (Berkeley): Appointed Sunny Gettinger, associate director for press advancement for the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign (Nashville), to be publicity and publications manager, and Michael Stephens, associate director of development at the San Diego Opera, to be director…
Guide Seeks to Demystify Intermediate-Sanctions Law
Arthur Andersen Guide to Navigating Intermediate Sanctions: Compliance and Documentation Guidelines for Health Care and Other Tax-Exempt Organizations, by Diane Cornwell, Vincent J. Crowley, Jeffrey D. Frank, and Anne M. McGeorge, provides organizations that are tax-exempt under Sections 501(c)(3)…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
Tax Agency Must Pay Christian Coalition $59,000
BY GRANT WILLIAMSA federal court has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to pay Christian Coalition International $58,941 to cover the advocacy organization’s legal and administrative fees that the group incurred during the years it spent fighting the government for tax-exempt status. Last year,…