Foundations That Won Awards for Excellence in Communications
ALSO SEE:Honoring Grant Makers for Communicating About Their Work Annual and Biennial Reports Community and Public Foundations, Assets More Than $30-Million
Following are summaries of recent reports by the National Charities Information Bureau. That private organization reports on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and public information. The organization does not approve or disapprove of charities, and…
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Appointed Carolyn Rhode, development director at Durham Public Education Network (N.C.), to be development director. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Washington): Appointed Bernie Khoo, acting vice…
Tax-Exempt Organizations Registered With the IRS
More than 730,000 charities and private foundations were registered with the Internal Revenue Service as of September 30, 1998, according to the tax agency. The number of organizations classified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code rose by 41,266, or 6 percent, from 1997 to 1998,…
Write-Offs: New Guide for Donors On Value of Donated Goods; Job Shuffle at IRS
* The I.R.S. has published a revised version of its handbook “Determining the Value of Donated Property” for donors and appraisers. Among the topics: How to place a fair market value on household goods, used clothing, art objects, and used cars. The booklet, Publication 561, may be found on the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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Charities Urged to Use Internet for Advocacy
The Alliance for Justice, a national association of advocacy groups, is telling charities how they can use e-mail messages, e-mail discussion lists, and other online techniques to help set public policy while following federal laws that were written years before the advent of the Internet. The…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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‘Vulture’ Trusts Prohibited Under IRS Rules
The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed rules that close down a controversial form of charitable trust in which gravely ill people are exploited to help wealthy ones save on gift and estate taxes. So-called vulture trusts involve what the I.R.S. says are “abusive” forms of charitable lead…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy and volunteerism: Education. The New York Theological Seminary has received the 2000 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Award for Excellence, which recognizes overall excellence and significant improvement in an educational institution.…
Bits: Conference Highlights to be Posted Online; E-Mail List for Activists
* Highlights from the Council on Foundations’ annual conference, which takes place May 1-3 in Los Angeles, will be posted on the council’s Web site during the meeting. Some of the highlights will be available as sound and video files. To get there: Go to http://www.cof.org/simulconference/ac2000. *…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Virtual’ Volunteers Subject of New Guide
A new guide is available for charities that want to add a “virtual” component to their volunteer program. The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: How to Apply the Principles of Real-World Volunteer Management to Online Service, a 133-page book available free online, explains how to recruit, manage, and…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Group Raises Money for Business Loans to Women
Count Me In is a new Internet-based organization that raises money to make small-business loans to women. After raising almost $1-million -- from such grant makers as the American Express Foundation, BP Amoco, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, and the Friedman Family Fund -- for its start-up…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Effort to Promote Use of Film to Aid Social Causes
A new online effort is trying to use film and video to promote awareness of social problems -- and the charities working to alleviate them. The Visionaries, a non-profit group in Braintree, Mass., has started an Internet channel to broadcast its own stories about non-profit organizations and to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Guide to Conducting Online Advocacy Without Overstepping Federal Restrictions
E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Law of Lobbying and Election-Related Activity on the Net, by Elizabeth Kingsley, Gail Harmon, John Pomeranz, and Kay Guinane, explains how non-profit organizations can use the Internet for lobbying and political advocacy while staying within the law. In general, the…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Study Assesses Results of Management-Assistance Project
Community Foundations Initiative on Management Assistance: Phase One Evaluation, by Renee A. Berger, documents the initial findings of a project financed by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation geared to strengthening the ties between community foundations and local non-profit groups. In 1994…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Charities are struggling to compete for qualified computer employees Since last fall, Peggy Connolly has been trying to hire someone to oversee Oxfam America’s World Wide Web site, ALSO SEE: Average Salaries of Technology Workers but so far her search hasn’t yielded any hits. The international aid…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Lawsuit in New York Could Affect Earmarked Funds at 550 Community Foundations
A long-running fight between two charities has reached a New York State appeals court, ALSO SEE:A Run for the MoneySupport Grows for Adoption of New Federal Rules on Donor-Advised FundsThe Boom in Donor-Advised Funds and the eventual ruling could affect the amount of control that the nation’s 550…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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