Report on Attitudes Toward Teaching as a Profession
A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, by Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Tony Foleno, reports on attitudes about teaching as a profession among new teachers, superintendents and principals, and recent college graduates in other professions, as measured by three national telephone surveys. Of the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Community Efforts to Address Alcohol-Related Problems
Case Histories in Alcohol Policy, edited by Joel Streicker, profiles seven grassroots advocacy groups that have taken on projects to combat alcohol-related problems--such as violence, injuries, and high crime rates--in their communities. The organizations were chosen to reflect activism in rural,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Study Measures Use of Consultants
Nearly two-thirds of nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco area hire consultants each year, spending a total of $65-million, according to a study by two management consulting firms in California. The study, which was conducted jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and Harder Co., is…
United Way Issues Index on ‘Caring’
The United Way of America has developed an annual statistical index that uses existing data on the economy, education, health, charitable activity, and other factors to rank states according to the needs of their residents and to chart changes in social and economic well-being nationally from year…
Bits: Online Volunteerism Journal; AIDS Project Uses Excess Computational Power
By NICOLE WALLACE
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Promotes Accessible Web Sites
By NICOLE WALLACEThe founders of Knowbility, an Austin, Tex., charity that raises awareness about the potential for technology to improve the lives of people with disabilities, thought long and hard about what to name their organization. “We wanted something that could convey the idea that in the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Handicraft Groups Make Use of Internet
By NICOLE WALLACEFair-trade charities are taking different approaches to harnessing the power of the Internet to promote the sale of handicrafts made by artisans in developing countries. Daniel Salcedo envisions a future in which craftspeople use the Internet to sell their products directly to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Microsoft Gift Helps Youth Project
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Microsoft Corporation will donate $12.3-million in cash and $88-million in software to help Boys & Girls Clubs of America bring technology to each of its more than 2,600 clubs. The Club Tech program grew out of the success of an earlier project, in which Microsoft and Shaquille…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Groups Find Gold in Real-Estate Crunch
By DEBRA E. BLUMA tight real-estate market is driving up costs for nonprofit groups across the country, but some charities that own property are benefiting from the high prices. The Vera Institute of Justice, a New York research and advocacy group that works on ALSO SEE:Seeking a New Lease on Life…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Real-estate boom’s soaring rents are uprooting urban charitiesStreetcats Foundation for Youth, a San Francisco charity that provides counseling for troubled teenagers, got word last month that it had 60 days to vacate its quarters. The building’s new owner, hoping to cash in on a hot real-estate…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Arts Center Foundation (El Cajon, Calif.): Appointed Richard F. Zellner, vice president of development, to be president and chief executive officer. Bay Path College (Longmeadow, Mass.): Appointed Amy Benoit, an assistant account executive at FitzGerald Communications (Cambridge, Mass.), to be…
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (Minneapolis): Appointed Franklin Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of Samaritan’s Purse (Boone, N.C.), also to be chief executive officer. He succeeds his father, Billy Graham, who will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Communities In…
The following awards have been presented for work in fund raising, nonprofit management, philanthropy, and volunteerism: Corporate philanthropy. The Community Foundation of New Jersey has named Panasonic Consumer Electronics (Secaucus, N.J.) its 2000 Corporate Philanthropist of the Year for the…
Profiles of End-of-Life Care Programs
Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies recounts the founding of nine end-of-life care programs designed to relieve the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and help families cope with their loved ones’ illnesses. Each of the narratives is written by the doctor, nurse, or…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Family Funds’ Grant Making in the Arts
Creative Family Giving in the Arts, by Laurel Jones and Morrie Warshawski, profiles grant making in the arts by 18 family foundations and family giving groups. Unlike many larger private grant makers, a number of those funds award grants to individual artists. This book is part of the series…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups
By NICOLE WALLACE Among the seven new top-level Internet domain names recommended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was dot-museum. (Top-level domain names are the last part of an Internet address, such as dot-com or dot-org, that indicate what type of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor