Reports Details Charitable Giving in Minnesota
Giving in Minnesota: A Report on the State’s Philanthropy finds that the Gopher State’s community, corporate, and private foundations paid out a total of $613-million in 1997. That figure represents a 57-per-cent increase from what grant makers there paid out in 1994, compared to a 42-per-cent…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Bankrupt Pa. Health System Sued by Creditors Demanding $1-Billion
Creditors of the bankrupt Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation, in Pittsburgh, have sued leaders of the non-profit health-care system for more than $1-billion. The suit, filed last month in a federal bankruptcy court, charges that seven of Allegheny’s top officials and four of its…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Web Site Covers Policy Issues for Community Activists
A new Web site, VoxCap.com, provides information on policy issues for community activists. Developed by the VoxCap Network, a Chicago organization, the site pools information from three public-policy Web sites: Policy.com, IntellectualCapital.com, and CongressVote.com. Visitors to the site can…
By Amanda Marshall
Contributor
Charities Get Free Help in Building Web Sites
A free Web publishing service allows non-profit organizations -- and their local affiliates -- to create Web sites quickly and without having to know any Internet programming language. Charities can go to WeGo.com and build their own Web sites by filling in templates that the Palo Alto, Cal.,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Center Offers Nagoya Citizens a Desk, a Phone — and Lots of Assistance
Six years ago, while an industrial-science student at Nagoya University, ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanFew Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social FabricProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Protecting Japan’s Children — and Insuring That They Are Heard
When Yuji Hirano was in junior high school in Fukuoka City, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, he was frequently kicked or beaten by his teachers over what he says were minor infractions of school rules. ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanFew Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Tokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social Fabric
Cookies, cakes, and curries -- foreign foods that the Japanese have enthusiastically assimilated into their everyday cuisine ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanFew Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring That They Are…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Few Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots Organizations
As non-profit organizations seek growing influence in Japanese society, ALSO SEE:Activists on the Move in JapanTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents Into City’s Social FabricProtecting Japan’s Children -- and Insuring That They Are HeardCenter Offers Nagoya Citizens a Desk, a Phone -- and…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Activists on the Move in Japan
New law helps citizens’ groups win acceptance they’ve long craved The 700 or so participants at a recent non-profit conference here did not act much like revolutionaries ALSO SEE:Few Japanese Foundations Offer Much Support to Grassroots OrganizationsTokyo Group Tries to Weave Disabled Residents…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Following are summaries of recent reports by the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service and the National Charities Information Bureau. Those two private organizations report on whether charities meet standards for fund raising, governance, financial management, and…
Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries (Hollidaysburg, Pa.): Appointed Julia Elvey, assistant director of development at Juniata College (Huntingdon, Pa.), to be director of annual giving. American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York): Appointed Jeffrey J. Sussman,…
On-Line Holiday Gifts for Charities and Donors
Numerous on-line companies are offering holiday promotions to benefit charities -- largely in the hopes that doing so will attract the attention of consumers and lead them to use Internet services to make financial transactions. Among the seasonal opportunities for charities and donors: * Yahoo, an…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Retirement-Plan Information Available on Web Site
The I.R.S. has released guidelines for its agents to use when auditing non-profit organizations’ tax-sheltered annuities -- known as 403(b) retirement plans after the section of the tax code that governs them. The guidelines may be found on the I.R.S. Web site at…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Impending Departures at IRS Prompt Concern
The news that two top officials will leave the I.R.S.'s Exempt Organizations Division has stirred concern among non-profit tax experts about the ability of the federal government to regulate charities, at least in the short run. Marc Owens, director of the Exempt Organizations Division since 1990,…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Trends in Bequests Are Detailed by IRS
Wealthy Americans who leave money to charity when they die give the largest share of their gifts -- nearly one-third -- to educational, medical, or scientific institutions, according to figures from the Internal Revenue Service. Private foundations are the next biggest beneficiary of such bequests,…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Arts and humanities. The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington) have named the recipients of the 1999 Coming Up…