How the Chronicle Conducted Its Annual Survey of Pay at Big Nonprofit Groups
The Chronicle‘s 13th annual salary survey examines what the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations pay their top officials. This year’s survey gathered data from 313 charities and foundations. The organizations asked to participate in the survey are those that ranked highest in their categories…
By Leah Kerkman
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Making Sure Girls Have a Room of Their Own
Twice a week, a group of about 16 girls gather in Alexandria, Va., to get homework help, eat a nutritious dinner, and work on art projects that they can use to decorate their bedrooms. The two-year-old program -- called Space of Her Own -- is a fusion of social services and art instruction that…
By Leah Kerkman
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From glitzy to garage-sale, online auctions net big returns for many charitiesThe American Red Cross netted more than $800,000 by selling a donated Harley-Davidson motorcycle signed by ALSO SEE:Online Fund Raising: How 174 Charities Are FaringA Surge in Online GivingInternet Giving: How Much…
By Leah Kerkman
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How The Chronicle Compiled Its Annual Philanthropy 400 Rankings
The 14th annual Philanthropy 400 uses financial data gathered from nonprofit ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Search The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 400 database of U.S. charities that raised the most in donations from individuals, foundations, and corporationsGiving Slowly ReboundsThe 400 at a GlanceFund Raiser’s…
How The Chronicle Conducted Its Annual Survey of Donations Made Online
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s fifth annual survey of online fund raising is based on data provided by 204 ALSO SEE:Online Donations SurgeHow Online Fund Raising Has Fared in Past Four Years at a Sampling of CharitiesOnline Fund Raising: How Much Big Charities Are RaisingCharities Divided Over…
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A Disaster Movie About Global Warming Prompts Flurry of Nonprofit Promotions
In the span of five days, an abrupt freeze causes New York City to be covered in a sheet of ice while Los Angeles is razed by tornadoes. As those disasters unfold in The Day After Tomorrow, a 20th Century Fox movie that opens in theaters on Memorial Day weekend, environmental groups will be trying…
By Leah Kerkman
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How The Chronicle Compiled Its Survey of Giving and Assets at Big Foundations
The Chronicle‘s annual survey of the nation’s largest private foundations is based on ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Giving Trends at Big FoundationsFoundation Assets RecoverHow Much Foundations Plan To Give In 2004Large Grants in 2003: A SamplingHow Much Foundations Spent on Program-Related InvestmentsSize of…
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Convenience of Online Education Attracts Midcareer Students
After Kate Whitteker, a supervisor and trainer at a research-services company, was laid off in 1998, ALSO SEE:Majoring in Philanthropy she decided it was time to create not only her own job, but also her own nonprofit organization. As her ambitions for her nonprofit organization grew, she decided…
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A Social-Work School Evolves to Train Charity Leaders
When Andrea Bazan Manson joined with several other residents of Chapel Hill, N.C., to found El Pueblo, a nonprofit ALSO SEE:Majoring in Philanthropy group to help Hispanics, in 1996, she never expected to become its leader. Instead, she was planning to get a degree in social work that would give…
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Fewer Funds Issue Annual Reports, Study Finds
Sixteen percent of foundations have issued printed annual reports on their finances this year, a sharp decline ALSO SEE: Foundations: How They Report to the Public from the portion that did so a decade ago, according to a new study by the Foundation Center. In 1993, 26 percent of foundations issued…
By Leah Kerkman
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