Charitable Tax Deductions Considered by Congress
Two members of Congress who have seats on influential committees have introduced bills that would allow people who do not itemize on their federal income-tax returns to write off a portion of their charitable gifts. The legislation, which is called the Neighbor to Neighbor Act, is sponsored by…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Report Issued from Annenberg Challenge
Students at Work: A Portfolio from the Annenberg Challenge, edited by Barbara Cervone, Kathleen Cushman, and Lisa Rowley, is the annual report from Walter H. Annenberg’s $500-million program to improve America’s public schools. The Annenberg Challenge comprises 18 projects in big cities and rural…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Report Analyzes Mentor Programs
Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs, by Carla Herrera, Cynthia L. Sipe, and Wendy S. McClanahan, is a study from Public/Private Ventures commissioned by the Public Policy Council of the National Mentoring Partnership, in Washington,…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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‘Black Issues’: MacArthur Geniuses
By CONSTANCE CASEY The magazine Black Issues Book Review (May-June) looks at some of the writers among the 63 African Americans who have been awarded “genius” grants by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. (Over the last 18 years the MacArthur Foundation has awarded $563-million to…
By Constance Casey
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‘Bloomberg Finance’: Donor Web Sites
By CONSTANCE CASEY In Bloomberg Personal Finance (June), readers can find an article about two Web sites, GuideStar and GrantMatch.com, where they can research charities seeking donations. The two sites provide databases of non-profit organizations. GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org), which was…
By Constance Casey
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‘Art News’: Big Growth in Corporate Sponsors
By CONSTANCE CASEY Increasingly “corporations are not asking what they can do for art, but what art can do for them,” says the magazine Art News (May). Not only are exhibitions good publicity for corporations’ brand names, they also provide significant social opportunities. Merrill Lynch, for…
‘Worth’: Silicon Valley and its United Way
By CONSTANCE CASEY The financial magazine Worth (June) attempts to explain how the United Way of Santa Clara County, based in the middle of California’s Silicon Valley, in San Jose, with its many high-technology millionaires, nearly went broke a year ago. The board of directors, which included…
By Constance Casey
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Winners of Annual Competition for Museum Publications
ALSO SEE: 169 Museum Publications Honored for Excellence in Design Museums With Budgets of $500,000 or More The Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design National Gallery of Art (Washington), The Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné: Volumes One and Two Annual Reports First…
169 Museum Publications Honored for Excellence in Design
By MEG SOMMERFELD The American Association of Museums has recognized 169 publications for excellence in graphic design in its 20th annual Museum Publications Design Competition. The competition drew 1,237 entries in 16 categories, including annual reports, exhibition catalogs, ALSO SEE:Winners of…
Bits: Software for Conducting Health Studies; Internet-Training Curriculum
* The Population Council, a non-profit organization in New York, has made available free on its Web site the Household Registration System, software designed to help researchers conduct long-term demographic and public-health studies in developing countries. The council’s site offers a manual and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Arts Endowment Gives Leads to Other Sources of Funds
The National Endowment for the Arts has created a Web site to show that it isn’t the only game in town when it comes to federal support for the arts. The site, called Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities, describes and provides links to grant programs in 23 federal agencies that have provided…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Discount-Purchasing Service Now Available Nationwide
A new online service allows non-profit organizations to buy products -- anything from diapers to office supplies -- at discounted prices. Purchasing Services Agency is a non-profit group in San Francisco that negotiates discounted prices on goods and services for its member organizations. It was…
By Amanda Marshall
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Volunteer-Matching Program Still Extending Its Reach
In the last three months of 1999, VolunteerMatch put more than 55,000 potential volunteers in touch with non-profit organizations that needed assistance, almost doubling the number of matches it had made in the first 18 months it was online. Five months into 2000, the total number of matches made…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ousted Trustees Should Repay $5-Million to Hawaiian Trust, Report Says
The five ousted trustees of Hawaii’s wealthiest charity should repay the trust more than $5-million for legal and accounting expenses they charged as they were fighting to retain their lucrative jobs, a court-appointed official has recommended. If the trustees are unable to repay the full amounts,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Homelessness Groups Win in U.S. Court
A U.S. district court has sided with homelessness charities in a case involving a federal law that gives such groups top priority in making use of buildings the federal government no longer needs. At issue in the case was whether the General Services Administration circumvented a federal law --…
By Jennifer Moore
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Non-profit groups battle over new, low-power radio service The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland hopes to broadcast its message soon in a new way: on the airwaves of its own FM radio station. The social-services group is one of hundreds of charities gearing up to apply to the Federal…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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