New Law Doesn’t Guarantee Easy Access to Charities’ Informational Tax Returns
In June, new Internal Revenue Service regulations went into effect to make it easier for the public to obtain information about non-profit groups. ALSO SEE:Results of the Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives a non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and…
9 in 10 Executives at Top Charities Are White, Chronicle Finds
Non-profit leaders have long urged employers to hire a diverse work force. ALSO SEE:Results of the Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives a non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles The faces inside the executive offices of…
By Harvy Lipman
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Top Leaders See Fatter Paychecks
5.7% rise in executive compensation in ’98 is double the growth rate of ’97 Compensation for top executives of major non-profit groups grew at nearly double the rate last year that it did in 1997, according to The Chronicle’s eighth annual compensation survey. The median rise in chief executives’…
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…
The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed George Perlov, director of planning and research and vice-president, to be senior vice-president. American U. of Beirut (Lebanon): Appointed John A. Wilkinson, an education consultant based in New Haven, Conn., to be vice-president for development and…
Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Public Broadcasting
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
From the issue dated September 23, 1999 Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Foundations Community foundations Private foundations Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations Arts Colleges and universities Education groups (miscellaneous) Environmental and animal-related…
Employees Who Earned More Than Their Organization’s Chief Executive
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. Employee 1998
Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Public Broadcasting
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
From the issue dated September 23, 1999 Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Foundations Community foundations Private foundations Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations Arts Colleges and universities Education groups (miscellaneous) Environmental and animal-related…
Lesbian Donor Research Project: Final Report, prepared by J. Bourge Hathaway, Julia Fitz-Randolph, and Paul Ideker, summarizes a project undertaken by the Gill Foundation, in Colorado Springs, that analyzed the giving habits of lesbians based on 98 responses to a survey. According to the report’s…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Direct mail. The Direct Marketing Association’s Non-Profit Council (New York) has given its 1999 Non-Profit Organization of the Year Award to the Christian Appalachian Project…
Volunteering Is a Priority, Older Americans Say
People ages 50 to 75 say that volunteering and community service are among their top priorities during retirement, but relatively few of the people in that age group currently participate in such activities regularly, according to survey results released last week. Half of the 803 Americans polled…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
‘Condé Nast Traveler’: Time Off to Do Good
Vacations can be relaxing, exciting, exhausting, even boring, but Condé Nast Traveler (September) says they also can be “virtuous.” The magazine offers readers a list of “worthy organizations” that invite vacationers to do good by working as volunteers in skilled and unskilled jobs at the…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
‘Wired’: Giving With a Bottom Line
A new breed of donors is trying to reinvent the art of philanthropy, matching generosity with the no-nonsense rules of business, Wired magazine writes in its September issue. The new donors, called “venture philanthropists,” believe “that simply giving money away is too passive and uninvolved,”…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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Global Study Finds High Rate of Volunteerism
Around the world, more than one person in four donates time to non-profit organizations, ALSO SEE:Charting the Voluntary World according to a new study of non-profit activities in nearly two dozen countries. The aggregate work of such volunteers, in fact, adds the equivalent of 10.6 million…
By Stephen G. Greene
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