Creating a Women’s Giving Circle: A Handbook, by Sondra Shaw-Hardy, is designed to help community-based organizations and institutions create groups of women who “pool their charitable gifts to fund projects that improve the quality of life in their communities.” Giving circles, Ms. Shaw-Hardy…
By Gwen A. Williamson
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Handbook Shows How to Deal With an Audit
API’s Complete Guide to the Non-Profit Audit
By Gwen A. Williamson
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RealNetworks Foundation Starts With $2-Million
By DEBRA E. BLUMA Seattle software company has created a new foundation to help make good on the company’s three-year-old pledge to give a substantial portion of its profits to charity. RealNetworks, the maker of RealVideo and RealAudio software, which allow video and audio signals to be…
By Debra E. Blum
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Awards Honor Charities for Technology Ideas
By NICOLE WALLACEUsing technology to overcome isolation -- both social and geographic -- is a common element in many of the project proposals that won Ericsson Internet Community Awards. Ericsson, a Stockholm telecommunications company, honored five nonprofit organizations from around the world for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Groups Propose Agenda for the Next President
Nonprofit leaders who participated in a recent online survey were given a list of
Campaign Financing Is Top Concern of Nonprofit Leaders in Online Survey
By ELIZABETH SCHWINNNonprofit leaders have plenty of suggestions for the next president of the United States, ALSO SEE:Nonprofit Groups Propose Agenda for the Next President such as calls for tax incentives to increase charitable donations. But their top priority for the new occupant of the White…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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Alumni of Teaching Charity Pursue Variety of Public-Service Career Paths
By MEG SOMMERFELDWhen Wendy S. Kopp started Teach For America, she fully anticipated that many of the ALSO SEE: A Lesson in Charity Survival Nonprofit Groups Created By Teach For America Participants
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Teach For America turns around its operation after financial crisisMost college students turn in their senior theses, heave massive sighs of relief, and rarely think of their topics again. But 11 years after Wendy S. Kopp submitted hers to Princeton University, she continues ALSO SEE:Alumni of…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Report on an Arts-Marketing Program in Charlotte, North Carolina
Marketing the Arts: Lessons from a Community Marketing Collaboration reports on the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s five-year program to help four struggling performing-arts organizations in Charlotte, N.C., improve their marketing efforts. In 1994, the foundation awarded a grant to the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Case Study of a Foundation’s Closure
Closing a Foundation: The Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, by John H. Dickason and Duncan Neuhauser, details how the Miami fund, as specified in Mrs. Markey’s will, closed out its activities after 15 years of grant making. The authors also examine the debate over whether it is better to create…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Smart Money’: Asking for Gifts at the Office
More and more, workers are being solicited for charitable gifts by their bosses and colleagues, says Smart Money (October). Employees are asked to buy Girl Scout cookies, donate to walkathons, or otherwise make a gift to their fellow workers’ favorite causes, says the magazine. Because such…
‘Inc.’: Making Profits From Nonprofit Groups
Largely inspired by the “transformative powers of the Internet,” a growing number of businesses are based on the idea of “making money off of those who give it away,” says Inc. magazine (October). “The nonprofit community is no longer seen as incidental but as a major line of business,” Jimmie R.…
‘Forbes’: Prizewinning Philanthropy
The number of prizes that wealthy donors are creating through their philanthropies seems to be expanding, says Forbes magazine in its latest ranking of the 400 richest Americans (October 9). Among the prizes created in the 1990’s, according to the magazine: The Blasker Award, which gives $250,000…
Though many wealthy dot-com entrepreneurs say that elementary and secondary education is their top priority, “the discomfiting truth is that this famously risk-hungry bunch has shown only modest interest in confronting the challenge of failing schools,” declares the October issue of Grok, a…
Federal Technology Program Awards $13.9-Million
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Technology Opportunity Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded $13.9-million to 35 nonprofit organizations and state and local governments for projects that bring information technology to poor urban and rural areas. Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Use Internet to Educate Voters
By NICOLE WALLACEAs the Internet changes the way politicians run for office, it is also influencing the way nonprofit organizations conduct their voter-education and advocacy activities. Web White & Blue (http://www.webwhiteblue.org), a project of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, in New…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor