Microsoft Gift to Lift Technology Efforts
By NICOLE WALLACEThe Microsoft Corporation will contribute $10-million in cash and $15-million in software over five years to develop technology-assistance programs for charities nationwide. The gift is part of a partnership between Microsoft and NPower that will allow the Seattle charity, which…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Woman Leaders in Community Development
Women as Catalysts for Social Change: A Study of Women-Led Development Organizations describes the experiences, leadership styles, and barriers faced by women who run community-development groups. The report is based on interviews with 121 women in leadership roles and with 21 grant makers and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Annual Report on the Well-Being of Children in the United States
2000 Kids Count Data Book reports on the well-being of children in the United States by analyzing 10 indicators, such as infant-mortality rates, the percentage of teenage girls who gave birth, and the number of teenagers who were not attending school and not working. The report -- which is…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How the Information for The Chronicle’s Salary Survey Was Compiled
This is the ninth year that The Chronicle has gathered information about what the nation’s ALSO SEE:Keeping the Best on BoardPay for Leaders at Biggest Charities Rises 6.2%, Chronicle Survey FindsResults of 2000 Compensation SurveyAdditional Salary Survey Charts largest non-profit organizations pay…
Retirement Perks Help Keep Workers
As non-profit boards have realized in recent years that they must compete with businesses for executive talent, ALSO SEE:Keeping the Best on BoardPay for Leaders at Biggest Charities Rises 6.2%, Chronicle Survey FindsResults of 2000 Compensation SurveyAdditional Salary Survey ChartsHow the…
By Harvy Lipman
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Pay for Leaders at Biggest Charities Rises 6.2%, Chronicle Survey Finds
Editor’s Note: In the print version and an earlier Web version of this article, an incorrect organization was cited as having paid its top officials more than 2 percent of its total income. The correct group is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, not the United Negro…
By Harvy Lipman
Contributor
Charities Hurt by Their Distaste for Tough Recruiting Tactics
The tight job market isn’t the only obstacle facing non-profit groups that are looking for top-notch help. They are sometimes hindered by an unwillingness to embrace aggressive or creative recruiting methods, observers say. Richard Potter, vice president for development at American ALSO SEE:Keeping…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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In a tight job market, charities try to heighten their appeal to workersLeaders of Jumpstart for Young Children, a national non-profit group in Boston that helps preschool youngsters, don’t want their employees bolting for other jobs. So each year ALSO SEE:Pay for Leaders at Biggest Charities Rises…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Cheney Releases Details of Charitable Giving
Richard B. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, says that he and his wife, Lynne Cheney, donated $209,832 to charity from 1990 through 1999 and took tax deductions for that amount, a figure that represents about 1 percent of the couple’s adjusted gross income of $20.9-million for that…
By Grant Williams
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Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales (Center Valley, Pa.): Appointed James Ciminelli, a vice president at the Bankers Trust Private Banking Group of Deutsche Bank (New York), to be director of development, and Marianne Salcedo, director of foundation and corporate relations at Cedar Crest…
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: Appointed Erica Soper, a development officer at the R.O.S.E. Fund (Boston), to be manager of annual giving and special events. Bobby Dodd Industries (Atlanta): Appointed Wayne McMillan, associate executive director at Families First (Atlanta), to be chief…
The following awards have been presented for work in fund raising and volunteerism: Direct marketing. The Direct Marketing Association (New York) has awarded its 2000 Non-Profit Organization of the Year Award to Catholic Relief Services (Baltimore) for outstanding direct-response marketing…
‘Moment’: on Birthright Israel
Once a skeptic when it came to Birthright Israel, Gil Troy is now a convert: The McGill University history professor writes in the August issue of Moment that the organization has the potential to revitalize young American Jews’ interest in their religion and heritage. Birthright Israel provides…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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‘Kiplinger’s’: New Generation of Donors
A new generation of donors is using a range of innovative methods, from “giving circles” to “venture philanthropy,” to attack the causes of social ills and ensure that charitable dollars are well spent, Kiplinger’s magazine reports (September). “Philanthropy today has a new vitality,” the magazine…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Booklet Explores Ways to Stop Youth Violence
Violent Kids: Can We Change the Trend?, by Michael deCourcy Hinds, presents options for reducing juvenile violence in the United States. Mr. Hinds, executive editor at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan policy organization in New York, examines three options for confronting the problem of violent youths,…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Growth of Charities in California’s Orange County: a New Study
The Nonprofit Sector in Orange County, California: 1997 Economic Scope and Characteristics, by Kathleen Costello and Robert A. Kleinhenz, intends to paint a comprehensive picture of non-profit actitvity in Orange County, Calif., which in 1997 was home to 1,626 tax-exempt organizations holding a…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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