Balancing the Need for Flexible Support With Donors’ Desire to Measure Results
How one charity responds to donors’ demands for results
Aid Group Taps Book Clubs to Help Raise Money and Awareness
Aid group taps book clubs to help raise money, awareness
Heritage Foundation (Washington): No. 325
A new talk-radio ad campaign reels in new donors for think tank.
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena): No. 206
The California Institute of Technology solicits advice from donors.
Doctors Without Borders (New York): No. 139
The overseas group seeks cure since there was a decline in gifts.
Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston): No. 207
Texas Children’s Hospital’s appeal to the hispanic community yields $92,000.
America’s Top Charities Face Tough Fund-Raising Year
Bruised by a deep recession, organizations in the Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 expect a decline in fund raising.
Family of Turkish Philanthropists Among Winners of Carnegie Medals
The prize: 2009 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, which celebrates donors who embody Andrew Carnegie’s ideals that with wealth comes responsibility and that private wealth should advance the public good. Winners: The Koçs, a family in Turkey that runs one of Europe’s largest private foundations, and…