Internet Calendar Service Offers Aid to Charities
Charities can use a new Internet calendar service to remind members about next month’s fund-raising gala or the volunteer-appreciation picnic -- and raise money at the same time. The Daily Drill (http://www.dailydrill.com), a free Web site that allows individuals to set up calendars to keep track…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Panhandling Project Explores Attitudes Toward the Poor
Are you more likely to give money to a panhandler holding a sign or to someone who asks you for money? Would it make a difference if one were a man and the other were a woman? A member of a minority group? NeedCom, a new Web site that describes itself as “market research for panhandlers,” uses…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Youth Group Starts Technology Centers
Fifteen new technology centers are opening in Boys & Girls Clubs across the country. The new centers are the first phase of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s plan to bring club members access to technology and to teach them computer skills. The clubs primarily serve children in poor neighborhoods…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Standards Under Review
The Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Philanthropic Advisory Service has appointed a committee to recommend ways to revise the 23 standards it uses to evaluate the financial-management, fund-raising, governance, and public-disclosure practices of charities. The watchdog group first issued its…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
For Charities, a New Twist in Raising Money: Corporate Investors in Life-Insurance Policies
The Christian Medical & Dental Society, in Bristol, Tenn., expects to earn $1-million a year for the next 30 years by participating in an unusual and intricate new life-insurance program. In the program -- which its promoters say is risk-free for charities and easy for them to participate in -- the…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Views on charity issues: Wants to make it easier for ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner faith-based organizations to receive federal money to pay for social services. Says charitable tax deductions should always be available. Opposes using federal money for the AmeriCorps national-service…
Views on charity issues: Says he wants to eliminate ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner the legal barriers that prevent religious groups from receiving government money for programs that deal with drug abuse, homelessness, youth-violence prevention, and many other social problems. Wants to…
Views on charity issues: Wants the federal government ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner to support non-profit organizations, including religious groups. Notes her endorsement, as head of the American Red Cross, of legislation to allow people who do not itemize deductions on their federal…
Views on charity issues: Would seek tax and other incentives ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner worth $8-billion in his first year as President to help charities and donors. The money would be used to: allow people who do not itemize deductions on their federal income-tax returns to write…
Views on charity issues: Wants non-profit groups -- what he terms “the civil sector” -- to step up their collaboration ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner with government, businesses, and individuals to solve the country’s most pressing problems. Says the federal government, for example,…
Views on charity issues: Wants to give donors ALSO SEE:Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner a double deduction on their federal income taxes for any amount they give to charity that exceeds 5 per cent of their incomes. Says such a “half tithe” deduction would encourage Americans to increase their…
The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Julie Dolan, an account manager at Meredith Inc. (New York), to be vice-president of financial development. American Council on Education (Washington): Appointed Ellen R. Babby, senior director of planning and development at NAFSA: Association of…
Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner
Charity issues have become a hot topic among ALSO SEE:Lamar Alexander, RepublicanBill Bradley, DemocratGeorge W. Bush, RepublicanElizabeth Dole, RepublicanAl Gore, DemocratDan Quayle, Republican Presidential hopefuls staking out their positions for the 2000 campaign. Contenders from both major…
By Grant Williams and Jennifer Moore
Charity: a Campaign Front-Runner
Charity issues have become a hot topic among Presidential hopefuls staking out their positions for the 2000 campaign. Contenders from both major political parties have been promoting a variety of strategies that all share a common goal: to find ways for the government to do more to help non-profit…
By Grant Williams and Jennifer Moore
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) recently presented several awards. The 1999 James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished…
Health Group Not a Charity, Tax Court Rules
In a major victory for the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled that the agency was right to deny charity status to a California organization that runs a surgery center with for-profit partners. Redlands Surgical Services is not operated exclusively for charitable purposes because…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor