The Dallas, Texas, school district laid off hundreds of teachers Thursday to avoid a projected $84 million deficit.
Peter Mukasa needs $250 to buy some hooch. Care to help a guy who's down on his luck if he promises to pay it back? Oops, too late. Mukasa, the owner of a closet-sized liquor store in the Ugandan village of Makindye, posted his funding request on Kiva.org one afternoon in mid-November. Within hours, ten lenders ponied up $25 each to help the man stock his shelves. Case open, case closed.
Fortune: The corporate bakerupdated: Fri Feb 23 2007 11:41:00
In the early 1990s, as an account manager for A.C. Nielsen, Vandegrift used to give presentations to consumer goods companies on how their products were selling. On a whim, she hired a baker friend...
This essay is adapted from a speech that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered recently at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. Gates received that museum's James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
Nowhere has thinking about strategic partnerships been turned on its head more dramatically than in the area of corporate citizenship.
Recently I had coffee with a friend who was venting. This was normal - what are friends and grande skim lattes for?
Charities are anxious this holiday season. After an extraordinary year that began with a catastrophic tsunami followed by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and ended with an earthquake in South Asia that killed thousands, charities worry that donors may not have much left to give.
Three years after jousting over a celebrity telethon that raised millions for 9/11 victims, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and actor George Clooney are at it again, this time over what will happen to funds pledged in a telethon for tsunami victims.
Last week you turned in your pledge card for your company's United Way campaign, promising to donate 1 percent of your salary to the organization.
For Michael and Martha Hogan, giving to charity is not just a tradition -- it's a passion. The St. Louis couple, both 51, donate regularly to some two dozen nonprofits, ranging from major groups like the United Way and the National Kidney Foundation to the lesser-known Small World Adoption Foundation, which helped them adopt the youngest of their four children.
Charities looking to fill their stockings this year over the Internet are encountering a new generation of donors promising to change the face of philanthropy.
Used to be, when fall rolled 'round, you were expected to give to just one charity at work—United Way. But these days you're probably bombarded with appeals from colleagues in charitable walkathons...
Ah, summertime, when daydreams turn to leaving the corporate world behind, and maybe joining a nonprofit and trying to save the world, or at least some small corner of it. "We're seeing an enormous...
Charities have had a rough few months. A late September survey from GuideStar.org indicates that 58% of organizations expected contributions to decrease in 2001. Some charities lost support to grou...
It was one of the few heartening events of the past several weeks--even before the smoke cleared from the Sept. 11 attacks, charitable donations began pouring in. And the money keeps coming. As of ...
Fortune: Philanthropyupdated: Mon Oct 15 2001 00:01:00
The United Way and the Red Cross have received more donations since Sept. 11 than at any other time in their histories. The list of contributors reads like film credits: Julia Roberts pledged $2 mi...
It might be hard to remember, but there actually was news before the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11. For this edition of the Hype Index, we've torn ourselves away from the disaster coverage...
The Hyatt Regency Hotel at Chicago's O'Hare airport seems an unlikely place for a revolt. But when a few hundred leaders of United Way chapters gathered in a large meeting room there this past Marc...
Don Spieler, 64, had a good run. After 33 years at Kodak, where he had become president of the company's Mexico operations, it was time to retire and return to his hometown of Rochester, N.Y. Spiel...
What could be easier than taking care of your charitable obligations through a workplace giving program? Having your employer pull a few dollars from every paycheck is a pretty painless way to avoi...
Faced with such tragedies as poverty in America, Hurricanes Bertha (below) and Fran, the TWA and ValuJet crashes, the Olympic bombing and the war in Bosnia, many Americans share the same impulse: T...
Money Magazine: AMERICA'S SAFEST PLACESupdated: Mon Jul 01 1996 00:01:00
Protecting yourself and your family from crime is your highest priority, according to MONEY's 1996 reader poll ranking 41 different quality-of-life factors. (For more on what matters most when choo...
IRONICALLY, THE LATEST CHARITY SCANDAL, involving an alleged Ponzi scheme at the Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, could benefit donors to all charities. The case could put pressure on charity b...
While past scandals at organizations like the United Way forced existing nonprofits to become more accountable, they also fueled a new movement among altruistic business types. Call this crew the s...
This is the time of year most Americans think seriously about contributing to one or more charitable organizations. The holidays are a reminder that others could use a hand. December is also the la...
Like spouses in a healthy marriage, corporations and nonprofit organizations are redefining their relationships to suit a new environment. Once upon a time, corporate largess consisted of one-shot,...
Money Magazine: CONSERVATION updated: Tue Dec 01 1992 00:01:00
Few charities have gone mainstream faster than those that seek to protect the environment. In 1987, environmental groups raised $1.6 billion. Last year, they took in $2.5 billion. Another sign of g...
Painful tragedies unfold almost every evening on your TV screen: emaciated children in Somalia; families left homeless by hurricanes in Florida and Hawaii or earthquakes in Cairo and Colombia; inno...
Fans of big government got a lift when United Way's president resigned in disgrace over his alleged high living. While William Aramony's excesses were unusual, wrote columnist Michael Kinsley in Ti...
Once you might have reasonably assumed that money you gave to a highly respected charity would be well spent. No longer. In February, the United Way of America, whose 2,100 chapters raised $3.1 bil...
America's big charities seem to be spending your money more wisely. Roughly three-quarters of the 100 largest groups, listed at right and on page 136, spent more than 70% of the money they raised i...
When you give to a charity, you want to make sure that your hard-earned dollars will be used to help the causes that concern you -- the homeless, saving the whales or finding a cure for cancer -- r...
When the baby-boomers share their good fortune with charities, who will be on the receiving end? Mainstream outfits shouldn't bank on their largess. Young donors are showing themselves to be as per...
''The single greatest problem of the U.S. economy in the late 1980s is its extremely low level of national saving,'' assert the authors of Overconsumption: The Challenge to U.S. Economic Policy. Fa...
Money Magazine: PLAIN PHILOSOPHY updated: Wed Mar 01 1989 00:01:00
I am always amazed at the suggested budgets proposed by your experts for your case-study couples. Charitable contributions are always so miserly! I was brought up to consider the first 10 cents on ...
Fortune: SIGNALS FOR 1989 updated: Mon Jan 16 1989 00:01:00
Give me a Caddy that looks like a Caddy, demanded Cadillac fans. GM obliged. The 1989 Sedan de Ville is nine inches longer than 1988's model; the Coupe, six. Both have long, narrow taillights, 1960...
While nearly everyone looks forward to retirement as a time of doing exactly as one pleases, there are as many ways to pursue your pleasures as there are people. That's an important retirement plan...
Hard to believe, but when Owen B. Butler, 64, retired as chairman of Procter & Gamble two years ago, he did not start an LBO fund. Instead he launched a crusade. Over the past six months Butler has...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THISupdated: Mon Nov 11 1985 00:01:00
''It's all very profound. We want to know how the Lord made the world.'' -LEON M. LEDERMAN, 63, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, on the opening of the world's mos...
An Internal Revenue Service official in Philadelphia said yesterday that the Community Action Movement (CAM), an arm of the radical group MOVE, is ''no longer tax-exempt.'' The statement came in th...
The more women and minorities make their way into the managerial ranks, the more they seem to want to talk about things formerly judged to be best left unsaid. The newcomers also tend to see office...
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