Web Site Provides Data on European Grant Makers
A new Web site provides users with information about philanthropy in Europe and helps European grant makers use technology. The European Foundation Centre, an association of European grant makers, located in Brussels, has developed Funders Online, a Web site that provides information about European…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Offered Help With Millennium Bug
A Seattle non-profit group called NPower, which provides technology assistance to other charities, is organizing a “Y2K Day of Service,” during which more than 200 volunteers will help 140 local non-profit groups test their computers and software for possible year-2000 problems. The year-2000…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
California United Way Dismisses CEO Amid Charges of Financial Wrongdoing
Though located in the heart of wealthy Silicon Valley, the United Way of Santa Clara County is on the verge of financial collapse after spending virtually all of its reserve fund and giving more money to charities over the past five years than it had raised. Government and philanthropic…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
United Ways Hope to Enhance Their Profiles With New Marketing Technique
Federal Express does it. ALSO SEE:‘Branding': a Hot Trend for Charities So do Kmart and I.B.M. And now United Way of America is doing it too. The national organization is undertaking a pilot program aimed at enhancing its institutional identity -- or “brand” image -- as an organization that listens…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Old and New Trustees of the Bishop Estate
ALSO SEE:Trustees Ousted in Hawaii Removed or Resigned Appointed as Interim Trustees Richard S.H. Wong: Chairman. Former state legislator; president of Hawaii Senate (1979-92). Trustee since 1993. Removed temporarily May 7. Gerard A. Jervis: Lawyer and real-estate developer. Trustee since 1994.…
Move by court seeks to avert threat to Bishop Estate’s tax exemption A long struggle to wrest control of one of America’s wealthiest and most powerful charities ALSO SEE:Old and New Trustees of the Bishop EstateFROM THE ARCHIVES:9/17/89: For Trustees Who Run Hawaii’s Bishop Estate, the Rewards Are…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
‘Branding’: a Hot Trend for Charities
Groups try to stay ahead of rivals by adopting a marketable identity After Daniel Aukin became artistic director of New York’s Soho Repertory Theatre last September, a member of ALSO SEE:United Ways Hope to Enhance Their Profiles With New Marketing Technique the board gave him some advice about how…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
Contributor
Academy for Educational Development (Washington): Appointed Peter Mitchell, director of the State of Florida’s anti-tobacco pilot program (Tallahassee), to be senior marketing and communications specialist. American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington): Appointed Constantine…
Federal Agency Issues Report on Charity Lobbying
The General Accounting Office says that Congress might want to consider changing the way charities make regular reports of their lobbying expenditures to the House and Senate. Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, charities that spend specified amounts of money and time to lobby federal…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Black philanthropy. The Association of Black Foundation Executives (Indianapolis) has presented its James A. Joseph Award to Hugh C. Burroughs, director of special projects and…
Giving Guide Cites Value of Timber
Charitable Planning with Timber & Timberland, by Nancy J. Brucker, recommends that charities inform potential donors of planned-giving opportunities involving timber and forestland. A 1994 survey by the U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters counted 9.9 million owners…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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Study Yields Theories on Diversity
The Challenge of Achieving Pluralism: A Two-Pronged Approach for Values-Driven Organizations, by Judith Y. Weisinger and Paul F. Salipante, is a working paper from Yale University’s Program on Non-Profit Organizations that examines the problems that non-profit groups face when bringing together…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
New Internet Search Tool Focuses on Philanthropy
Internet users can take advantage of a new, specialized search engine to find information about non-profit organizations and philanthropy on the Web. The new site, PhilanthropySearch.com, lists Web sites run by non-profit organizations as well as Web sites that provide information or sell products…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Auctions for Kosovo Relief to Benefit Red Cross
Five Internet-auction companies are working together to support efforts to aid Kosovar refugees. Amazon.com Auctions (http://www.amazon.com), eBay (http://www.ebay.com), LiveBid.com (http://www.livebid.com), Up4Sale (http://www.up4sale.com), and Yahoo Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com) are…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Report Calls for Aid to Increase Use of Technology
A group of non-profit technology leaders has issued a report on potential ways to improve the use of information technology by charities. The National Strategy for Nonprofit Technology, a network of 24 charity leaders, grant makers, and consultants, has been meeting for the past year to discuss how…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Single people flock to groups that mix good works and finding a date; for some charities, it’s a perfect match Forget singles bars and matchmaking services. A growing number of organizations for single people are being created to mix the idea of volunteer service with finding a date. Those…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor