Soccer Champion Mia Hamm Scores as Charity Fund Raiser
The soccer star Mia Hamm gives away about $100,000 a year through the foundation ALSO SEE:Flexing Their Muscles for CharityThe Philanthropic Causes of Tennis and Golf StarsMatching Sports Celebrities With Causes Can Itself Be an ExerciseHow to Contact Women’s Sports AssociationWomen’s League…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Flexing Their Muscles for Charity
Female athletes and sports leagues use rising star power as a force for philanthropyA year after defeating Bobby Riggs in the highly publicized 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” ALSO SEE:The Philanthropic Causes of Tennis and Golf StarsMatching Sports Celebrities With Causes Can Itself Be an ExerciseHow…
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Matching Sports Celebrities With Causes Can Itself Be an Exercise
As female athletes claim spots as top celebrities and earners, charities are ALSO SEE:Flexing Their Muscles for CharityThe Philanthropic Causes of Tennis and Golf StarsHow to Contact Women’s Sports AssociationWomen’s League Doesn’t Wait for Profit to Get the Jump on PhilanthropyA Retired Tennis…
By Meg Sommerfeld
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Women’s League Doesn’t Wait for Profit to Get the Jump on Philanthropy
As the Women’s National Basketball Association celebrates its fifth anniversary, ALSO SEE:Flexing Their Muscles for CharityThe Philanthropic Causes of Tennis and Golf StarsMatching Sports Celebrities With Causes Can Itself Be an ExerciseHow to Contact Women’s Sports AssociationsA Retired Tennis…
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Prospecting the Web for Donors
Up-to-the-minute news delivered to fund raisers automaticallyLewisburg, Pa. Top officials at Bucknell University were all set to ask a wealthy alumnus ALSO SEE:A Sampling of Sites Offering Customized E-Mail Alerts to give $10-million for a new campus building. But just days before the scheduled…
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Tech Mogul Mulling Which University Will Receive $150-Million Donation
By MEG SOMMERFELDLarry Ellison, the billionaire chairman of the Oracle corporation, says he wants to give $150-million to create a university center focused on politics, economics, and technology. Now he just needs to figure out which institution will make the best use of his money. At least two…
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‘National Review’: Sunset for Olin Fund
By MEG SOMMERFELDWhen the John M. Olin Foundation closes its doors in the next few years, it “will leave a big black hole in the world of conservative philanthropy,” according to The National Review (June 11), a biweekly conservative magazine. Although Mr. Olin, a munitions, metal, and chemical…
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By MEG SOMMERFELDA growing number of opportunities exist to turn vacations into tax write-offs, as more nonprofit groups organize volunteer trips to exotic locales, reports Forbes magazine (June 11) in “Walter Mitty Meets Uncle Sam.” Darren Jobbs, a pilot for United Airlines, has traveled to Spain…
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Boston Group Takes the Initiative in Providing Resources to Charitable Donors
By MEG SOMMERFELDH. Peter Karoff believes people need to be “motivated, educated, nudged, and supported” if they ALSO SEE:Teaching the Art of GivingProject Aims to Make Giving by Blacks More Effective and EnduringA Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots UpPhilanthropy…
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New wealth, high demand lead to a boom in donor educationIn cities and towns across America, donors are learning how to make their charitable ALSO SEE:Project Aims to Make Giving by Blacks More Effective and EnduringA Life Devoted to Teaching Others How to Give, From the Grassroots UpPhilanthropy…
By Elizabeth Greene and Meg Sommerfeld