Second Harvest Wins $7-Million in Aid
America’s Second Harvest has received a multimillion-dollar grant to improve its technology infrastructure. Over the next three years, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, in Las Vegas, will give the network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs $7-million for its Enterprise Project.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Public-Interest Group Blends Cable, Internet
Downtown Community Television Center, a community-media organization in New York, has built a television studio that is designed to broadcast live, interactive television programs simultaneously on cable and the Internet. Staff members from DCTV, as the center is known, taught a group of teenagers…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Alliances Focus on Charities
Technology companies that provide services to the non-profit world have made several major announcements:. * A coalition of companies announced that they intend to release an open-language standard called the Open Philanthropy eXchange, or OPX, later this month. The companies believe that using a…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Income Grows at Non-Profit Theaters, but So Do Expenses, New Study Finds
The strong economy continued to buoy non-profit theaters last year as their average income rose 7.1 percent, a new survey reports. But the rate of income growth tapered off compared with the previous year, when it rose 11.6 percent (The Chronicle, July 15, 1999). And while non-profit theaters’…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Scouts’ Honor or America’s Dishonor: a Sampling of Editorials on the Ruling
Chicago Tribune: Freedom of association is one of the keystones of a democratic society. Churches are allowed to bar atheists, civil-rights groups may exclude Klansmen, and the Green ALSO SEE:Text of the majority opinionText of the dissent by Justice StevensText of the dissent by Justice SouterA…
Debate rages over implications of Supreme Court’s decision to allow Boy Scouts to exclude homosexual leaders The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Boy Scouts of America’s right to reject ALSO SEE:Text of the majority opinionText of the dissent by Justice StevensText of the dissent by…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Belmont U. (Nashville): Appointed Angie Emery Henderson, a writer in the office of stewardship at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), to be director of foundation relations. Boys Harbor (New York): Appointed Thomas E. Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Liberty Service Corporation…
Allen Pavilion (New York): Appointed Michael Fosina, director of integration and accreditation, to be executive director. This hospital is part of the New York–Presbyterian Hospitals. Alliance for Education (Seattle): Appointed Rodney Wheeler, vice president of community campaigns at the United Way…
* Rolling Stone (July 6 and 20) spent six months conducting research on the Boy Scouts for an in-depth examination of how the group has dealt with gay members. One main conclusion, says Chuck Sudetic, who wrote the Scouts article, is that the group is secretive. No current Scout official would be…
By Domenica Marchetti
Contributor
Boy Scouts Cannot Be Forced to Admit Homosexuals, Supreme Court Rules
Washington The Boy Scouts of America cannot be forced to accept homosexuals as Scout leaders, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. ALSO SEE:Text of the majority opinionText of the dissent by Justice StevensText of the dissent by Justice Souter In a 5-to-4 decision, the justices overturned a ruling…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Advocacy. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (Washington) has chosen Raymond Lader of Punta Gorda, Fla., as the recipient of its 2000 National Youth Advocate of the Year Award.…
Youth Group Leader Wins Gardner Award
Dorothy Stoneman, founder of YouthBuild U.S.A., is the recipient of this year’s John W. Gardner Leadership Award for non-profit leadership. The award is presented annually by Independent Sector, a Washington group that represents charities and foundations. Ms. Stoneman started YouthBuild U.S.A. two…
The Martha Graham Dance Company and its dance school will cease operations due to long-standing financial troubles that left the group with no funds to operate. The company was named after its founder, Martha Graham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer who died at age 96 in 1991. The 71-year-old…
Cancer Society Officer Accused of Stealing
A top executive of the American Cancer Society’s Ohio Division has been accused of embezzling nearly $7-million. According to an affidavit filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, Daniel S. Wiant, chief administrative officer in the society’s…
How Museums Drew More Visitors
Service to People: Challenges and Rewards explains how museums that received grants through a program of the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund improved their services to visitors. The Fund has given $32-million to 27 museums since 1991 as part of its Museums Collections Accessibility Initiative.…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
‘The New Yorker’: Unplanned Giving
By THOMAS J. BILLITTERIWho says alumni relations are serious business? The New Yorker magazine finds the humor in university fund raising in a piece by the satirist Christopher Buckley (June 5). Written as a mock itinerary for a 25-year college reunion, the piece skewers the development tactics…