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Helping Nonprofits Benefit From Fresh Ideas
Nonprofits that are tackling big questions about their mission benefit greatly from seeking ideas from people outside their organization
—including those who work in other fields, says Jeff Leitner. The form...
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Charity Campaigns Try Gentle Approach to Get Shoppers to Spend on Good Deeds
To deliver its message, the American Red Cross has a new animated character in its multimedia campaign highlighting the seasonal dilemma of whether to please family and friends ...
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From Mergers That Didn't Stick, Lessons Emerge for Other CharitiesIf there was a honeymoon after the merger of Long Island College Hospital, in Brooklyn, with Continuum Health Partners, in New York in 1998, few remember it. The bickering began early and d...
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Celebrities May Be Overrated as Online Fund Raisers, Says Study
Ashton Kutcher, Kanye West, and other big-name celebrities don’t do as much good for charity on Twitter, Facebook, or other social networks as less-famous people, a new study finds. Actors...
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New Group to Endorse Politicians Who Pledge to Strengthen Nonprofits
A new organization is set to debut tomorrow with a mission that is unusual in the nonprofit world—to endorse political candidates who have solid plans for strengthening nonprofits in ...
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A New Name Can Give a Charity a Louder and Clearer Voice
The founders of Washington Shakespeare Company chose the troupe’s name 22 years ago to signify civic pride: This would be a group of homegrown professional actors, not the New York pros who fille...
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Why Donations to Occupy Wall Street Are Tax-Deductible
Now that Occupy Wall Street has raised more than $450,000 in its first month—and donations of cash and goods continue to pour in—more attention has focused on an issue few people noticed before: ...
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Big Manhattan Project Heralds ‘Museum Mile’ on West Side
A proposed art space in a major development project on Manhattan’s West Side could bookend a “museum mile” stretching along the popular High Line park, writes The Wall Street Journal.&nbs...
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Alma Mater of Late Pennsylvania Industrialist’s Parents Gets $25-Million Bequest
Thiel College is the latest western Pennsylvania educational or cultural entity to benefit from William S. Dietrich II’s estate, announcing on Thursday a $25-million gif...
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Accusers Plan to Sue Sandusky's Foundation
One of the young men who has accused the former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse sought an injunction Wednesday to stop the Second Mile charity from transferring or divesting its assets. In ...
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A Family’s Billions, Artfully Sheltered
As he stood in the opulent marble foyer of a Fifth Avenue mansion late last month, greeting the coterie of prominent guests arriving at his private art gallery, Ronald S. Lauder was doing more than just being a g...
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To Advance Their Cause, Foundations Buy Stocks
Earlier this year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested $10 million to acquire a stake in Liquidia Technologies, a biotechnology company working on new ways to deliver vaccines.
The foundation b...
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For 92nd Street Y, a Break From Wall Street Worry
The 92nd Street Y, a premier Upper East Side cultural institution, has some unusual insurance against the market’s vagaries. Clients of John A. Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, have had...
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YMCA Adopting Health Policies for Youth WASHINGTON — The Y.M.C.A., one of the nation’s largest child-care providers, intends to announce Wednesday that it is adopting new “healthy living standards,” including offering fruits, vegetables and w...
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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder explains how to do well by doing good
A scoop of Ben & Jerry’s may taste like heaven, and for company co-founder Jerry Greenfield, the business of making ice cream has a spiritual side as well. “There is a spir...
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New NPR Chief Faces Tough Landscape
The last 14 months have been bruising for NPR, but Gary Knell, the former chief executive at Sesame Workshop, is hoping to restore order and revitalize the public radio network.
Listeners asked him to increase program...
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Wilderness Society cuts staff, citing weak economyThe weak economy has taken a big bite out of the Wilderness Society, which last week laid off 17% of its staff.Headquartered in Washington, the organization is one of the nation's most venerable land prese...
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States and Localities Squeeze Nonprofits
Are governments looking for revenue in the wrong place?
In the search for revenue, some states and localities are getting awfully aggressive with nonprofits. For example, a few California counties are threatening...
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Adrienne Arsht has returned to Washington and is giving away millionsBarring the unforeseen, Adrienne Arsht — one of Washington’s most eclectically connected philanthropists — will ascend to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms on the eighth floor of the ...
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Duke Foundation To Aid Artists The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation will award $50 million over 10 years to more than 200 performing artists, dance companies, theaters and presenters, the foundation is to announce on Thursday. Rather than allotting f...
Innovative Resources Group served as campaign counsel to Utica College’s successful ACHIEVE: A New Dream, A New Era campaign. The campaign goal was $25 million and to date over $34.1 million has been secured.