Baseball Club Not a Charity, Tax Court Rules
The U.S. Tax Court has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service was right to deny charity status to an organization that sponsors an amateur baseball team for adult players. The group, Wayne Baseball, in Delaware County, Pa., plays home games at a local high school field and does not charge…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Publication Assesses Child-Protection Partnerships
We Are In This Together: Community Child Protection in America chronicles the effectiveness of “community child-protection partnerships” that have cropped up in the United States to bolster overall child welfare. These partnerships -- which unite parents, local and religious groups, businesses,…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Guide Looks at Anti-Drug Strategies
Lessons from the Field: Profiling State Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems is a guide developed by the non-profit group Drug Strategies and financed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help states evaluate trends in illicit-drug and alcohol use. The “field” of the title refers to eight…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
‘SmartMoney’: Fund Raising Enters Era of Extremes
Non-profit groups, anticipating a transfer of trillions of dollars from parents to their baby-boomer children, are becoming “all too willing to trample over donors, their heirs, one another, and anyone else who gets in the way” as they compete for a share of it, says SmartMoney magazine (October).…
By Jennifer Moore
Contributor
‘Forbes’: a Billionaire’s Giving Plan
Sidney Kimmel is a charity’s dream. With no family to provide for, the billionaire head of Jones Apparel Group, in New York, has no plans to leave an inheritance and is already working hard to give his entire fortune to worthy causes. Mr. Kimmel, 70, whose company includes the Jones New York and…
By Domenica Marchetti
Contributor
Workbook Issued in Spanish, Portuguese; Newsletter on Internet Resources
* The CompuMentor Year 2000 Workbook for Nonprofits is now available in Spanish and Portuguese. CompuMentor is a non-profit organization in San Francisco that matches volunteers who have computer skills with schools and non-profit groups in need of help. It also promises to answer via e-mail…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Form 990 Is Focus of New Web Site
Information on efforts to improve the accuracy of financial data that charities report to the Internal Revenue Service is available on a new Web site. The Quality 990 site features information on the Form 990 -- the informational tax return that charities with annual revenues of more than $25,000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
2 New Web Sites Serve Shoppers With a Conscience
Two new Web sites cater to consumers who want to buy socially and environmentally responsible products. Both plan to donate part of their proceeds to charity. EthicalShopper.com, a Los Angeles company, uses a detailed questionnaire to determine whether companies that want to sell products through…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fund-Raising Software Is Subject of New E-Mail List
An independent e-mail discussion list has been formed for people who use Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge fund-raising software. The new e-mail forum, called the Raiser’s Edge Users Group, was started by a charity fund raiser who wishes to remain anonymous. He said he was frustrated that the company’s…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity’s Campaign Mimics Initial Public Offering
The Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County is going public. Taking a page from the playbook of the high-technology companies that dominate Silicon Valley, the San Jose, Cal., volunteer center is modeling its annual fund-raising campaign on an initial public offering. In the business world, an…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Call for Cooperation in Behalf of the Powerless
Philanthropy and business must form a bold new alliance to combat world poverty, international assembly is told Improving the lives of the world’s poor and powerless in the next millennium will require creative collaboration between voluntary organizations and businesses, several speakers told an…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Alfred U. (N.Y.): Appointed Carol B. Wittmeyer, director of corporation and foundation giving, to be associate vice-president for university relations. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Rosemont, Ill.): Appointed Sandra R. Gordon, director of communications at the American Academy of…
Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Youth Groups
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Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: United Ways
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Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations
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Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Religious Groups
ALSO SEE: Results of The Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives at non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles. Chief executive and other highest-paid official Compensation Benefits Expense