IRS Handbook Offers Advice on Health Clubs, Internet
The Internal Revenue Service is providing its agents with new advice on how to handle a range of issues that may arise during charity audits and other reviews. Among the hot topics: charities that run health clubs and organizations that raise money through the Internet. The advice appears in the…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Community services. The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County (South Bend, Ind.) has presented its inaugural Leighton Award for Nonprofit Excellence to LOGAN (South Bend),…
‘The Nation’: Soros at War With War on Drugs
George Soros, the peripatetic American philanthropist best known for his giving in Eastern Europe, has been pouring millions of dollars into a controversial cause here at home: changing the U.S. government’s approach to dealing with illegal drug users, says The Nation (September 20). In the past…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
‘Forbes’: Giving’s Dangerous Games
Aggressive “charity hustlers” are marketing planned-giving schemes that have much less to do with philanthropy than with shielding assets from taxes, says Forbes magazine (September 20) in a collection of articles on giving. “Capitalizing on Americans’ generosity and aversion to taxes,” the…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Effort to Improve Libraries in Public Schools Leaves Its Mark
Findings from the Evaluation of the National Library Power Program: Executive Summary evaluates four years of a $40-million project started in 1988 by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to improve libraries in public schools. The study, undertaken by the U. of Wisconsin at Madison, contains…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Report: Access to Health Care Is in Critical Condition
Can’t Afford to Get Sick: A Reality for Millions of Americans, by John Budetti, Lisa Duchon, Cathy Schoen, and Janet Shikles, previews key findings from The Commonwealth Fund 1999 National Survey of Workers’ Health Insurance, due in December. This preliminary report is based on a survey of 5,002…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Bits: On-Line Regulation and Raising Money for Technology Projects
* For the first time, state charity regulators and leaders of non-profit organizations will meet formally to publicly discuss how fund-raising laws apply to Internet solicitations. The topic is the focus of the annual conference of the National Association of State Charity Officials, in Charleston,…
By NICOLE WALLACE and GRANT WILLIAMS
On-Line Advice Offered to Discussion-Group Leaders
How many times have you joined a new e-mail discussion list only to find that the initial burst of enthusiastic messages slowed to a trickle in a matter of weeks? Two international organizations, Management Sciences for Health, in Boston, and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Topics Featured in On-Line Magazine
A new on-line magazine, Nonprofit Toolkit, provides in-depth information about technology issues facing non-profit organizations. Although it is published by Arts Wire, a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts that helps arts organizations better use technology, Nonprofit Toolkit aims to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Internet Shopping Service Benefits Charities 2 Ways
A new on-line shopping service is offering two different ways for charities to benefit from on-line purchases. Dash.com, a company in New York, has negotiated rebate agreements with more than 50 on-line merchants, including GourmetMarket.com, NetGrocer, and Reel.com. Customers who sign up for the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
White House Starts Web Site to Promote Giving Meeting
The use of satellite and Internet technology will allow citizens across the country to participate in next month’s White House Conference on Philanthropy. On October 22, the White House Conference on Philanthropy: Gifts to the Future will discuss the American tradition of giving and ways to pass…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Black Church Picks New President
The National Baptist Convention USA, one of the nation’s largest black denominations, has chosen a new president to replace its former leader, who is serving time in jail for racketeering and theft in connection with the mishandling of church money. The Rev. William J. Shaw won the highly contested…
AmeriCorps Funds Eliminated by House
The House of Representatives has eliminated all funds for AmeriCorps and related national-service programs for the fiscal year that begins October 1. But AmeriCorps officials were optimistic that an appropriations bill that is eventually passed by the entire Congress will restore money for the…
Winners of Graphic-Design Competition for Museum Publications
ALSO SEE:Museums Win Awards for Graphic Design MUSEUMS WITH BUDGETS OF $500,000 OR MORE Annual Reports First prize: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Interaction: Walker Art Center 1997-1998 Annual Report Second prize: Glen Burnie Historic House, Gardens and Julian Wood Glass, Jr., Collection…
Museums Win Awards for Graphic Design
More than 180 publications from museums and galleries ALSO SEE:Winners of Graphic-Design Competition for Museum Publications have been recognized for excellence in graphic design in the 19th annual Museum Publications Design Competition. The contest, which is sponsored by the American Association…
Pay at New York Non-Profit Groups Beats Inflation
Employees of non-profit organizations in metropolitan New York ALSO SEE:Average Salaries at New York Non-Profit Groups in 1998 saw their pay go up by an average of 5.2 per cent in 1998, according to a new survey. That increase outpaced last year’s 1.6-per-cent inflation rate and was just slightly…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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