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No single day has ever asked so much of America's nonprofits as did September 11, 2001. Groups more accustomed to dealing with floods and hurricanes were called upon to feed, [...]

VENTURA, CA: Halsted Communications has been retained by the Agricultural Worker Charitable Trust (AWCT), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving housing, education, and healthcare access for agricultural workers. The firm [...]

OAKLAND, CA: Transfair USA enjoyed a major awareness boost last week following the introduction of a controversial ballot measure in Berkeley that would make it illegal to serve coffee that [...]

Many of the past century's great innovators say the Internet will hasten innovation during the next 20 years. They should know-they're Nobel laureates. To mark the 100th anniversary of the […]

Q. What is Heart of Florida United Way (HFUW)? A. Heart of Florida United Way is Central Florida's premier charity raising more than $20.6 million from companies and individuals from [...]

* Days of Caring is an annual event in which hi-county area businesses volunteer at Heart of Florida United Way member agencies. Volunteers perform various community service projects, such as [...]

Loaned Executive recruitment time is here again!!!! WHAT IS A LOANED EXECUTIVE? A Loaned Executive is an individual who is carefully selected from his or her business or labor union [...]

* Brand Characteristics WHY HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY? Community-based: We have over 60 years of experience coordinating volunteers and resources to raise funds supporting local health and human service [...]

Fundraising videos, Part II In the last column (NPT, August, 2001), why it makes financial sense to produce your own promotional video, distributing it on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM discs was [...]

Elementary and high school students nationwide will have a new opportunity to learn about the importance of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy, thanks to a partnership effort among several national [...]

It's $1 million less than last year, but the United Way Board of Directors approved $4.8 million in grants for 112 Snohomish County health and human service programs. The United [...]

"Slow food means learning how to manage our time, savoring food with pleasure and awareness. It is not so much the quantity of time we spend at the table that [...]

Delaware association gets the word out Nonprofits expect to be on the front page when controversy hits. If a nonprofit executive is embezzling funds or a major donor cuts all [...]

Organizations and exhibitors that want to maximize their trade show exposure need to realize that the Internet has become a tool for participants and non- participants alike, says Allen Konopacki, [...]

The real challenge for an institution is to overcome the silent, invisible and insidious effects of indifference toward the cause. The fund raiser's assignment is to get their agency in [...]

The first of 10 public forums designed to help a Colorado nonprofit spend more than $158 million will be held in Las Animas next week. Caring for Colorado, the foundation [...]

Shukri Abu Baker, president of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, is upset with American Airlines. Fort Worth-based American, it seems, halted sales of frequent-flier miles to Baker's [...]

A decidedly anti-slacker contingent of Gen-Xers is building bridges from the nonprofit world to the World Wide Web. Your typical hotshot Internet entrepreneur isn't always deadset on becoming a pillar [...]

CHICAGO -- America's Second Harvest here said it hopes to put the consolidation of food retailing to work in its hunger relief effort. Second Harvest is currently devising a plan [...]

A Media Relations Manual for Non-Profit Organization by John Longhurst (Windflowers Communications, 1996, available from Chapters at $6.99). Reviewed by Bill Blain. The media -- friend or foe? Purveyor of [...]

Nonprofit and community organization leaders are invited to attend the Colorado Association of Parliamentarians' workshop on Feb. 12. Group leaders will learn skills for conducting effective meetings. The workshop will [...]

Approaches that nonprofits FundScience, SciFlies, and Eureka Fund plan to take in financing small-scale research, with the help of the general public, are described. Prospective research projects will be subjected by these organizations in a review process. The researchers would then be required to report on their progress in a manner understood by donors without a scientific background.

El Paso Corp. is one of seven companies that support Center for Political Accountability's (CPA) call for disclosure standards for political contributions. The CPA wants publicly traded companies to disclose contributions to trade associations and tax-exempt organizations for political purposes.

The author examines efforts by local Sacramento, California nonprofits to force the United Way to address public concerns over their financial management, use of donations, and business practices all of which are now hurting all nonprofits.

Volunteers are often relied upon by nonprofit organizations to interact with possible donors and clients; however, volunteers' motivation and training are usually nonexistent. A volunteer, who poorly represents an organization, can be detrimental to an organization?s branding, and the selection, training, and motivation of a volunteer should be considered just as if the volunteer were an employee.

There's the former radio and TV announcer who, because of severe kidney disease, had both legs amputated and, unable to work, is raising a teenage daughter alone. Or the single [...]

The November 2002 elections left Democrats gasping for air when Republicans increased their hold on the U.S. House of Representatives and gained an advantage in the U.S. Senate. In light [...]

Tourism Cares is the sponsor of the original 1971 World Trade Center presentation model, now on display in the National Sept. II Memorial and Museum, which opened to the public [...]

Morgan Stanley is a year away from moving the first of 1,475 employees into the former Texaco headquarters in White Plains (Harrison), but nonprofits and institutions are already building relationships [...]

Maverick nonprofit leader says sector still has a long way to go Biting the hand that feeds you is not a particularly popular activity in the nonprofit sector--or in any [...]

Groups make advance preparations to capitalize on abortion decision WASHINGTON - Advance preparations by pro-choice and pro-life groups for the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion highlight the increasingly [...]