Booklet Offers Tips for Minnesota Donors
Minnesota Toolkit for Giving: Fulfilling Your Life’s Passions and Goals answers charitable-giving questions for individuals, businesses, and organizations in Minnesota. The booklet opens with a list of reasons why people give, followed by questions aimed at helping donors plan their giving. The…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
Case Studies Offer Solutions for Boards, Nonprofit Organizations
The Art of the Story: Case Studies From the Nonprofit Boardroom, by Betsy J. Rosenblatt, contains 12 fictional stories from the pages of Board Member, the magazine of the National Center for Nonprofit Boards. The stories, based on real-life situations that nonprofit boards, chief executives, and…
By Janine E. Guglielmino
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Guide Offers Perspectives of Philanthropic Leaders
The Foundation Builders: Brief Biographies of Twelve Great Philanthropists
By Janine E. Guglielmino
Contributor
Contest Honors Ad Campaigns That Reaped Rewards for Nonprofit Groups
Several nonprofit groups were winners in a competition to honor effective advertising. The Advertising/Marketing Effectiveness International Awards are given each year by an organization called New York Festivals. The award competition, which has been held since 1995, normally receives several…
Charity Advocates Put the Web to Work
By NICOLE WALLACEFor several years charities have been using the Internet in their advocacy work on causes like the environment and human rights. Now a coalition of organizations is harnessing the power of the Internet on behalf of policy issues that affect the nonprofit world. A project of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
By NICOLE WALLACEPeninsula Habitat for Humanity is looking to provide low-income families with homes on the information superhighway. Working with Cisco Systems, the Menlo Park, Calif., chapter of Habitat for Humanity is wiring 36 town houses it is building in Redwood City for high-speed access to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Companies Merge Operations
By NICOLE WALLACEThe consolidation of companies that specialize in helping charities use the Internet is continuing. In recent months, a number of online-giving companies have gone out of business -- most notably Charitableway -- and several giving portals, including CharityCounts and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
In Defense of a New Partnership Between Government and Faith-Based Groups
John J. DiIulio Jr., head of President Bush’s White House Office of Faith-Based ALSO SEE:Bush Defends Plan on Faith-Based Groups and Community Initiatives, recently outlined his plans in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, in Dallas. Following are excerpts from the…
A Closer Look at Church-Run Social Programs
By DEBRA E. BLUMChurches, mosques, and synagogues play a bigger role in delivering social ALSO SEE:Percentage of Congregations That Support Social-Service Programs services than previously estimated, according to a sweeping study of congregations. But a report on the survey results said it was…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Bush Defends Plan on Faith-Based Groups
By HARVY LIPMANPresident Bush and his top advisers on charity issues spent much of last ALSO SEE:In Defense of a New Partnership Between Government and Faith-Based Groups week defending the administration’s plans to help religious groups obtain federal money to pay for their social-service…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Members say Lutheran groups abused their trust to sell insuranceFor several years, say Glenn and Nedra Hawkins, self-described “dyed-in the-wool” ALSO SEE: Lutheran Fraternal Organizations at a Glance Lutherans from North Manchester, Ind., they yielded to persistent advice from agents with the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association (Chicago): Appointed Alan J. Stone, former president of Alma College (Mich.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Edward F. Truschke, who recently retired. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging…
A Better Chance (Boston): Appointed Darnita R. Killian, dean of students at Emory U. (Atlanta), to be executive director. This organization provides educational and career opportunities to talented minority youths across the nation. Africare (Washington): Appointed Myron Golden, a senior associate…
Following are summaries of recent reports by the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service. This private organization reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The service does not approve or…
‘Town & Country’: Hollywood Philanthropy
As Hollywood enters its major awards season, Town & Country (March) laments that no honors are given to film and television celebrities who excel in philanthropy. The magazine seeks to make up for the omission with its own awards, among them: Big spenders: Michael Eisner, chief executive of Disney,…
BY DEBRA E. BLUMIf an article in the March issue of the magazine Outside is on target, the Bush administration is about to face a faith-based movement it didn’t bargain for: faith-based environmentalism. “With the Bush administration threatening to roll back some of the past decade’s environmental…