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Non-profit Panera cafe: Take what you need, pay what you can
Imagine walking into a Panera Bread and picking out anything you wanted to eat or drink — then, at the end of the line, instead of handing your money to a cashier, you faced a donation box.Wh...
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'The Art of the Steal’ Raises Tough Questions About Donor Intent
A new documentary details the fight over the stewardship of the Albert C. Barnes art collection.
Foundation executives are forever complaining about the lack of publicity for their stren...
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Congresswoman Undertakes Effort to Give Charities More Support and Attention
Rep. Betty McCollum: "Washington needs to start caring as much about strengthening nonprofit organizations as it does about regulating them."
Betty McCollum - a Democratic cong...
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Funds Sought to Continue Restoration at Ellis Island
Save Ellis Island, a nonprofit charged with restoring that historic immigrant gateway to America, may not be able to save itself.
The group has run out of money.
“We’re not able to keep it going ...
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Volunteering promotes physical, mental health: poll
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Volunteers, whose numbers have grown to 63 million in the United States, help to strengthen communities and to improve health -- their own.
About 84 percent of people questio...
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Dreaming Big
An ambitious national project inspires community colleges to find innovative solutions to old problems. How 'Achieving the Dream' helped a Community College make big gains.
On a recent afternoon, the president of Danville Community College ...
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Fundraiser charged in Mass. Catholic school ruse
BOSTON — For the Venerini Sisters, it seemed like the answer to their prayers: An anonymous donor, lined up by a professional fundraiser, willing to give at least $3 million to finance an expansion of a ...
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Donors Show More Willingness to Give, Poll Finds
Donors are growing more confident in their ability to give to charity as the economy shows signs of stablizing, according to a new poll of more than 500 donors.
Nearly half of the donors questioned said t...
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Young Donors Want More Than 'Tweets’ and Texts From Charities, Survey Finds
They may sleep with cellphones by their beds and share details of their lives online in 140-character “tweets,” but people in their 20s and 30s want more from nonprofit gro...
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Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center Opens Doors to New Facility
After more than 40 years of serving the community, the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center is opening its doors on April 12th with its own facility on Lake Street in Newburgh, ...
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National Public Radio Sells $160 Million in Tax Exempt Bonds
National Public Radio, which depends on corporate donors for almost one-third of its revenue, plans to sell $160 million in tax-exempt bonds today amid the biggest wave of such issuance since J...
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Bloomberg Is Quietly Ending a Charitable Program
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City’s richest man and biggest philanthropist, is quietly pulling the plug on an unusual program that has poured nearly $200 million of his fortune into nonprofit gro...
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Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley hasn't forgotten about college endowments.
And he's not alone.
Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend...
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Hamilton Adopts Need Blind Admission Policy
At a time when parents are beginning to question whether they can afford a college education for their children, Hamilton College has announced that it will make admission decisions without considering an appli...
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Charity’s 'Embedded’ Fund Raisers Work With Local Affiliates to Secure Big Donations
All too vividly, John P. Cerniglia recalls the times he visited wealthy donors as head of the Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity, only to learn that they had recently b...
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In the Arts: Virginia Arts Funds Threatened, Met Raises Ticket Prices
Seeking to plug a $4-billion budget deficit, Virginia legislators are considering cutting funds for and then eliminating the state's Commission for the Arts, says the Richmond Times-Di...
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Last Remaining Catholic General Hospital in NYC Seeking Partner to Prevent ClosingThe financially ailing St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan in Greenwich Village got a month’s reprieve on Wednesday, as Gov. David A. Paterson met with hospital officials, ...
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The Philanthropy 50: A Slow Year for Big Gifts Spurs Creativity by Wealthy DonorsIn purely financial terms, last year was a dismal one for megagifts. The donors on the Philanthropy 50, The Chronicle’s annual list of the most-generous people in America, ...
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Los Angeles spares city arts fundingThe Los Angeles City Council unanimously shot down a proposal that would have eliminated guaranteed city funding for the arts, after listening to often-impassioned pleas during a public hearing on cutting government ser...
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Fund Raisers See Glimmers of Hope and Tough Challenges in 2010The New Jersey Performing Arts Center expects to raise $10.7-million this year, 5-percent more than in 2009. Peter Hansen, the center’s vice president of development, says he is grateful to b...
