Bits: Software-Donation Program; Virus Vaccination Day
By NICOLE WALLACE The Microsoft Corporation will be accepting applications for its Technology Leadership Grant program through April 2. Since 1997, the program has awarded Microsoft software to help large nonprofit groups improve their communications and operations and to use the Internet to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spontaneous Campaign Reaps Charity Windfall
By NICOLE WALLACEPropelled by the Internet, a spontaneous fund-raising campaign raised more than $600,000 for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates. In the January 26 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the columnist Patt Morrison wrote that she planned to celebrate…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online-Giving Company to Cease Operations
By NICOLE WALLACECharitableway -- one of the best-known and best-financed of the recent e-philanthropy ventures -- has announced that it is shutting down operations. ALSO SEE:The E-Philanthropy Revolution Is Here to StayFROM THE ARCHIVES:Internet Entrepreneur Tries to Bring Employee Giving On Line…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How to Contact Pro Bono Art Programs
ALSO SEE: Showcasing the Good Works That Art Students Do for Charity Following are organizations that are part of Arts Institutes, a network of educational organizations that provide instruction in culinary arts, design, fashion, and media arts. Students from the institutes often do free projects…
Showcasing the Good Works That Art Students Do for Charity
Leaders of Eastside Adult Day Services, in Bellevue, Wash., wanted to fill ALSO SEE:How to Contact Pro Bono Art Programs the walls of their center with portraits of their elderly and disabled patients, but the nonprofit group didn’t have funds to pay a professional to take the pictures. So Eastside…
Web Issues and the IRS: a Hot Topic
By GRANT WILLIAMSWashington The Internal Revenue Service has been harshly criticized by many charities and citizens for considering whether -- and how -- to clarify the way tax laws apply to nonprofit organizations’ use of the Internet. Others simply offered suggestions about how the tax agency…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Bush’s Budget: Key Items of Interest to Charities
President Bush’s economic plan contains numerous provisions that would affect nonprofit groups, including a proposal to establish a Federal Compassion Capital Fund to help needy Americans. In an address to a joint session of Congress last week, the president outlined his budget proposal for the…
Sketching Out a Plan for Survival
Foundation-run gallery’s hopes hang on fund-raising strategyMerion, Pa In early February, the Barnes Foundation received its third $500,000 ALSO SEE:At a Glance: The Barnes Foundation grant since spreading the word last summer that it would run out of money in six months and be forced to close its…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in leadership and volunteerism. Leadership. The Heinz Family Foundation (Pittsburgh) has announced the recipients of its 2000 Heinz Awards, which recognize outstanding leaders in five areas. Each recipient receives an unrestricted $250,000 prize.…
Plan to Repeal Tax Draws New Critics
By GRANT WILLIAMSMore than 100 wealthy Americans -- including George Soros, David Rockefeller Jr., and William H. Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates -- have signed a petition that urges Congress not to repeal the estate tax, in part, they say, because without the tax incentive…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Religious Groups Cite New Law in Range of Local Zoning Disputes
By DEBRA E. BLUMIn Colorado Springs, three religious organizations are taking legal steps to make sure that a new homeless shelter is built. Their complaint: City residents who have sued the city to block the shelter are limiting the charities’ free exercise of religion. In New Jersey, an…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Online Volunteers: Sources of Information
Friends Across the Divide Written by Martin Kimeldorf, a high-school teacher in the North Thurston school district in Lacey, Wash., this 52-page electronic book ALSO SEE:A Virtual Army of Volunteers describes the Grandfriends Project Online, which he founded to pair his students with senior…
Charities find new ways to let people do good works onlineCharities and the people they serve are benefiting from a new wave of volunteers, many of whom they will never see. The Internet ALSO SEE:Online Volunteers: Sources of Information increasingly is giving people like Latasha Greer -- a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
IRS Adjusts Rules on Allowable Deductions
By GRANT WILLIAMSThe Internal Revenue Service has announced several changes for the 2001 tax year that adjust tax laws to reflect inflation. One change affects the way donors calculate their charitable deductions. Federal law allows donors to take deductions only for the portions of their…
By Grant Williams
Contributor
ACT Incorporated (Iowa City): Appointed Carol Erenberger, manager of cardiac services at the U. of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City), to be director of recognition-program services at this educational-testing group. Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Dori Friedman, manager of special…
American Lung Association of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg): Appointed Robert Galardi, director of development for the western region, to be vice president of development, statewide, based in the Wexford, Pa., office. American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed James W. Krueger, chief executive officer…