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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 12, Issue 19)Liberal non-profit groups in California are hampered by a lack of foundation support for their public-policy work, says a new report. The report, published by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 23, Issue 16)Byline: Marisa LA[sup.3]pez-Rivera The Chronicle of Philanthropyas survey on charitable giving by Americaas largest companies gathers data from companies that appear at the top of Fortune magazineas list of the 500...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 16, Issue 02)Byline: Brad Wolverton For the first time in a dozen years, contributions to the nation's largest charities declined in 2002, the result of continuing economic uncertainty among donors and heightened competition for...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 15, Issue 24)Byline: Marni D. Larose The Chronicle's 12th annual salary survey examines what the nation's largest nonprofit organizations pay their top officials. This year's survey gathered data from 329 charities and...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 25, Issue 13)Byline: Caroline Bermudez John Wood, founder of Room to Read, a charity that builds schools and libraries and promotes literacy, left his job as a Microsoft executive in 1999 to start a charity that would help 10...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 25, Issue 17)Byline: Jane Wales When you picture Africa, what do you see? A malnourished child, with a bloated belly and bewildered by hunger? A rebel fighter, clinging to his weapon, fatigues, and tribe as his sole sources...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 26, Issue 05)Byline: Doug Donovan As chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco, Susan Desmond-Hellmann has come to know quite well the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's largess. The foundation has awarded...
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From:American Educational History Journal (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDuring the early 1920s, the question of who should control the schooling of African American children caused controversy in several Southern states, including Georgia. White educationists and bureaucrats were divided...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 27, Issue 01)Byline: Jennifer C. Berkshire Carol Wheeler thinks of the charities she supports as relationships-and she likes to go slowly. "My feeling is that we need to get to know each other. It takes time to develop people...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 27, Issue 04)Byline: Megan O'Neil A majority of adults would take some sort of action-such as 'liking,' reposting, or commenting-after seeing a friend's social-media post about a charitable donation, according to a new study...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 24, Issue 02)Byline: Caroline Preston Houston -- John D. and Laura Arnold, philanthropists in their late 30s who have poured about $670-million into their foundation here, question why more wealthy people don't give away their...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 23, Issue 01)Byline: Heather Joslyn The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with its $34-billion in assets, may be the a800-pound gorillaa of the philanthropy world, Dayo Olopade writes in The American Prospect (October), but some...
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From:The Chronicle of PhilanthropyByline: Ian Wilhelm This month about two dozen philanthropists will trek to the West African nation of Liberia to witness firsthand the deep scars left by 14 years of civil war and learn how they can play a role...
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From:Statistics of Income. SOI Bulletin (Vol. 30, Issue 1)On page 274 of the fall 2008 issue, and on page 254 of the fall 2009 issue Figure E ("Selected Items for Nonprofit Charitable Organizations, Classified by NTEE Category") from the articles "Charities, Labor and...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 23, Issue 03)Byline: Caroline Preston Ned Breslin has spent most of the past two decades working in Africa, and he is tired of well-intentioned philanthropy bringing water to the developing world, only to see people suffer when...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 18, Issue 15)IN some of India's poorest villages, videos examining subjects that are often taboo--child brides, HIV, hunger, land rights, or the status of the country's dalit, or "untouchable" caste--are drawing big crowds. The...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 29, Issue 4)For many of us, the term "quantum" --if recognized at all--evokes a hazy recollection of something or other in a long-ago physics class. But quantum is now primed to reassert itself in our collective consciousness, and...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 29, Issue 9)Renee parsons got her first taste of big philanthropy in 2010 when she was leading the communications and giving arms of GoDaddy, a web-hosting provider and domain-name registrar. Her husband, Bob Parsons, who...
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From:Ophthalmology Times (Vol. 42, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedGlaucoma 360 has brought the concept of innovation in glaucoma to the forefront. The 2017 Glaucoma 360 meeting, sponsored the Glaucoma Research Foundation, surpassed its own "Horizons" by adding a few more "degrees" to...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 29, Issue 12)Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the founding chief executive of Resolve, a new global health effort. Backed by $225 million in support from Bloomberg...