‘Poetry Was Meant for the People’: a Mission for the ‘90s
To promote his charitable work, Andrew Carroll has crossed the country and set up shop in places as diverse as a maximum-security prison, a 24-hour Las Vegas wedding chapel, a highway toll booth, and Elvis’s “Graceland” estate. ALSO SEE:Information on the American Poetry & Literacy ProjectHow the…
By Susan Gray
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Savvy, pragmatic young leaders are reshaping the non-profit world A new guard of non-profit leaders is emerging that will shape the charity world in the next century. ALSO SEE:How the Next Generation Is Shaping the Non-Profit World: Profiles on 10 Young Leaders This latest crop of leaders looks…
Alban Institute (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed June M. Costa, director of development at the Vesper Society (Oakland, Cal.), to be director of development. Albany Institute of History and Art (N.Y.): Appointed Diane Cameron, development director at Unity House (Troy, N.Y.), to be director of…
Maya Ajmera, 31 In 1993 founded the Global Fund for Children (http://www.shakti.org), in Durham, N.C. It runs a program called Shakti for Children (after the Hindi word for empowerment) that produces children’s books about cultural diversity. Royalties from the books go into a fund run by the group…
Company Offers Big Award for Creative Web Sites
A telecommunications-equipment maker plans to offer $250,000 in cash and in-kind services to non-profit organizations that come up with creative ideas for new Web sites. Ericsson, which is based in Sweden and has nearly 170,000 employees worldwide, will this month introduce the first annual…
By Debra E. Blum, Marilyn Dickey and Holly Hall
* The Gilbert Center, a Seattle organization that provides technology help to charities, has created an e-mail discussion list on topics related to non-profit “intranets” -- private, internal computer networks that can be used only by people associated with a particular organization. “Extranets,”…
By Debra E. Blum, Marilyn Dickey and Holly Hall
Report Says Charities’ E-Mail Is Unlikely to Sway Congress
Charities increasingly have been using e-mail as a way to try to get their messages into the hands of members of Congress. But a new report says electronic messages may not pay off as much as charities had hoped. The report, “Speaking Up in the Internet Age,” was published by OMB Watch, a…
By Debra E. Blum, Marilyn Dickey and Holly Hall
The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management: Arts. President Clinton has announced 12 recipients of the 1998 National Medal of Arts, including Jacques d’Amboise, a dancer and choreographer and founder of the National Dance…
‘The Nation’: Dimming of Civil-Rights Groups
The vitality that once animated America’s civil-rights movement has largely dissipated -- but has not disappeared entirely, writes the novelist George Packer in The Nation (December 14). The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Nonviolent…
By Debra E. Blum and Stephen G. Greene
‘Moment’: A Revolution in Jewish Philanthropy
Some of America’s richest and best-known Jews are at the “vanguard of a revolution in Jewish philanthropy,” according to an article in Moment magazine (December). The giving habits and plans of such figures as the moviemaker Steven Spielberg and the Wall Street wizard Michael Steinhardt demonstrate…
By Debra E. Blum and Stephen G. Greene
Agreement Between Warhol Foundation and New York Ends Probe
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreed to adopt new fiscal controls, thereby ending a long-running investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office into alleged wrongdoing. An agreement announced last week provides that the New York foundation take steps to tighten its…
By Stephen G. Greene
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National Diabetes Charity Settles Legal Dispute With Affiliate
The American Diabetes Association and its former Rhode Island affiliate have settled a legal dispute that erupted when the affiliate decided to break off from the national association rather than give up its autonomy. The two sides subsequently filed legal actions against each other. Under the…
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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New Survey Says Most Americans Endorse Foundations but Know Little About Them
Americans generally think well of foundations, according to a survey commissioned by the Council on Foundations. But the public’s knowledge of institutional grant making is apparently superficial: Many Americans have only a hazy idea of how foundations differ from other non-profit organizations,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Phone Billing Option Offered to Encourage Donations
Some 150 charities are now offering donors the chance to give on line though donations that are charged to their telephone bills. The new service is designed to appeal to donors who are leery about giving out their credit-card account numbers over the Internet. Here’s how it works: After a donor…
By Debra E. Blum and Holly Hall
New Shopping Sites Benefit Charities
Charities may soon benefit from the billions of dollars consumers spend making purchases on line. Three new companies -- 4charity.com, Millennium Projects On Line, and Shop2Give -- have each introduced Web sites in recent months that allow users to shop on line and direct a portion of the price of…
By Debra E. Blum and Holly Hall
Salaries at Foundations Outpace Inflation, Study Finds
Median salaries at U.S. foundations grew by 5 per cent this year, outpacing inflation for the third year in a row, according to a new report by the Council on Foundations.
By Thomas J. Billitteri
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