Topic: Stacy Palmer

Thank you to our golfers and guests for supporting the first Member Guest Golf Tournament on October 6th, 2011. It was a great day of golf...

Some givers giving up

0 . There are some grim faces behind the merry tinkle of holiday bell ringers this Christmas. Donations are down - not a huge surprise in this...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has taken another baby step toward increased transparency, acknowledging in its annual report that the world's largest charitable foundation is too secretive and hard to work with.. CEO Jeff Raikes draws attention in the report to ...
Report: As Americans struggle with recession, charitable giving falls 3.6 percent in 2009Charitable giving fell by 3.6 percent last year as Americans continued to struggle with the recession, though some philanthropic experts feared the decrease could have been much worse ...

CORRECTION

A story in MondayÕs Sun about fatigue among philanthropists quoted a person named Palmer without fully identifying her. She is Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a Washington, D.C., journal that tracks nonprofitable groups and charitable giving ...
At Whitney Elementary School, where most of the students qualify as homeless, Friday was a particularly good day.Every child got to choose a new book to keep, thanks to a donation from Kids In Distressed Situations (KIDS) Inc., a New York-based ...

U.S. charities hit by recession's impact on spending

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of small U.S. charities are likely to close this year as cautious donors and governments tighten spending and some states consider removing nonprofit tax breaks, experts said on Wednesday.</p><p>The nonprofit sector is ...
Charitable giving in US dropped in 2008 for first time in 2 decadesCharitable giving by Americans fell by 2 percent in 2008 as the recession took root, only the second year-to-year decline in more than a half-century, according to an authoritative annual ...