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 November/December 2000 Volume 41, Number 6 Final Issue: Volume 47 Number 4 |
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Letter from Anguilla "Jollification," Foundation-style by Allan R. Clyde A visit with leaders involved in the startup of an island-nation's first community foundation reveals how they're working on channeling a strong but informal charitable impulse into a formal giving structure. 
TechnologyDonating Used Computers by Martin B. Schneiderman Most grantmakers donate their used computers to nonprofits, but doing so is more complicated than you might think. That's why this expanded Technology column looks at some of the nitty-gritty details of giving directly to a nonprofit, working with an intermediary organization or letting staff members take them home. 
Way To GiveFame and Fortune by Todd Shapera, freelance writer Marc Pollick saw how powerful celebrity could be for championing a cause. So he created a hybrid that looks like a cross between a talent agency and a community foundation. Hows it going? 
Lessons LearnedThriving in a Fish Bowl by Thomas G. David, vice president, California Wellness Foundation and Gary L. Yates How healthcare conversion foundations might best deal with mission, payout and board composition, among other things, as observed by two long-term residents of a foundation that at times feels like a glass house. They write: Some of the biggest mistakes new health foundations have made resulted either from not communicating or from taking the wrong approach to communicating their messages Slickness is not an asset. 
CommentaryRevenue Foregone, But Not Forgotten by David Roberson, director of communications, The Duke Endowment Whose money is it? Its not the governments, and heres why. 
EthicsSet Up or Support? by Armanda Famiglietti, director of grants management, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Janine Lee, Vice President, Youth Development Division, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Nancy Aronson, Executive Director, Institute of Mental Hygiene and MaryAnn Holohean, Director, Nonprofit Sector Advancement Fund A foundation staff person wonders if his foundation, in the name of promoting organizational capacity, is unfairly leading organizations "down the garden path," raising expectations that can't always be fulfilled. What to do? 
Good IdeaIn Hopes that Theyll Be Newsworthy by Darlene M. Siska A small foundation in Cadillac, Michigan, requires that all of its grantees send out their own news releases about what they will do with the grants theyve received. These press releases tend to be short, sweet and so sincere--some of them are even handwritten--that they often lead to helpful press coverage. In some cases, theyve led to quick replication of good programs. 
From the PresidentBriefing the Next U.S. President by Dorothy S. Ridings Among the talking points: establishing an Office of Nonprofit Liaison in the White House, preserving the independence of the nonprofit sector and urging more dollars for the Internal Revenue Service, so it can maintain effective guidance and oversight functions of the sector. © Copyright 2000-2010 The Council on Foundations. All Rights Reserved. Published bimonthly by the Council on Foundations, Inc., 1828 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 - 202/466-6512. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of the Council on Foundations is prohibited. |
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