PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, July 11, 2000; Page A21
Lots of Web sites offer charity services, from linking you to nonprofits directly, to taking care of your contribution, to giving you extensive information about specific charities. But as many in the Web world have learned, only the strong sites survive. It's no different for charity-based cyberspaces.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, June 27, 2000; Page A21
If you dwell in the grantmaking world, you don't spend many days without hearing of a novel cause, a new foundation or a fabulously wealthy person scattering charitable seeds. And this being the age of consultancy, there's also no lack of individuals and organizations that can offer help on how you can best give your money away.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, June 13, 2000; Page A37
If last week's move in the House to repeal the death tax gains momentum, some in the charity community fear a collision with their causes.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, May 30, 2000; Page A17
Grant matching--in essence doubling the value of a program by giving the same amount as another donor--can lead to success for the organization. On occasion, too much success.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, May 16, 2000; Page A19
Like the hallway carpet of an old home, the National Trust for Historic Preservation found itself being trampled on. Now it's sporting a refurbished look.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, May 2, 2000; Page A21
Foundations must rethink how and how much they spend, the American-born widow of King Hussein of Jordan yesterday told a meeting of foundation representatives.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, April 18, 2000; Page A27
Making money is hard, giving it away even more difficult, or so goes the conventional wisdom in philanthropy circles. Most problematic of all may be measuring the success of the donation. But with so many multimillion-dollar efforts aimed at improving education, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has decided to pull out its yardstick.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, April 4, 2000; Page A27
Not only is foundation-giving up sharply, so is the actual number of grantmaking organizations. Down the road, the latter trend could prove more important in giving rates.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, March 21, 2000; Page A23
The National Endowment for the Humanities, the independent federal agency designed to educate the country about history, literature and philosophy, has been a favorite target of budget-cutters in recent years, particularly since Republicans took over Congress in 1995. Its annual funding by taxpayers has fallen from $180 million to $110 million, with modest increases in recent years.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, March 7, 2000; Page A15
A million dollars isn't what it used to be. But for large charities that lobby, it may be too much.

Under a 1976 federal law, nonprofits can choose to take advantage of what are, for most organizations, generous limits on lobbying. In electing to become so-called 501(h) organizations, those that spend $17 million or more a year can earmark as much as $1 million for expenses related to lobbying elected officials and other government agencies on behalf of their issues.

Philanthropy: Give and Take
Tuesday, January 25, 2000; Page A17
A prominent sector of the computer industry has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in material and training to help teachers and young students. The aim is traditional learning as well as digital-age proficiency. In large measure, the spending is based on a realization of the unstoppable march of technological progress.

What's Not in a Name, and Why
Tuesday, January 11, 2000; Page A15
Time was that a gift of just a few million--or even less--could tie your name to an entire university or hospital. Nearly four centuries ago, all that Massachusetts minister John Harvard had to give away was his books and, voila, the new university rewarded him with its name.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, January 11, 2000; Page A15
Time was that a gift of just a few million--or even less--could tie your name to an entire university or hospital. Nearly four centuries ago, all that Massachusetts minister John Harvard had to give away was his books and, voila, the new university rewarded him with its name.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Monday, January 3, 2000; Page A17
With millionaires in blossom at the millennium, a research group says there's plenty of charity potential in many of the country's largest and wealthiest states as well as the nation's capital.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Friday, December 17, 1999; Page A39
'Tis the giving season, and the well-heeled couple are in the spirit. They've purchased $500-a-plate tickets to benefit one of the city's great museums. Outside the hotel, a Salvation Army bell-ringer jingles for gifts. In a hurry for the gala fund-raiser, the couple whisk by the kettle. No "clank-clank" of coins.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Wednesday, December 1, 1999; Page A41
The philanthropic community could be among the most anguished mourners if, as a few presidential candidates have proposed, the unavoidable twins of death and taxes are decoupled.

PHILANTHROPY: GIVE AND TAKE
Tuesday, November 2, 1999; Page A19
In 1881, John D. Rockefeller gave away $61,000 of his mounting fortune to charity. Three years later, his annual contributions had just about doubled, to $119,000. On a slightly grander scale, Bill Gates has made a similar leap of philanthropic faith, but not all the recently-made-rich have joined him.

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