December 15, 2009, The New York Times - A new Web site lets people donate to charity the money they would have spent on, say, that $44.50 Henley sweater from the Gap — or, better yet, the $250,000 his-and-hers ICON aircraft that Neiman Marcus is selling this year.
December 8, 2009, The New York Times - Three months ago, Kushal Chakrabarti likes to say, the organization he co-founded, Vittana.org, amounted to little more than “three guys and a dog.”
December 7, 2009, The New York Times - The number of organizations that can offer their donors a tax break in the name of charity has grown more than 60 percent in the United States, to 1.1 million, in just a decade.
MOSCOW, November 23, 2009, The New York Times — President Dmitri A. Medvedev called Monday for tax incentives and other measures to assist Russia’s beleaguered nonprofit groups, which have come under government pressure in recent years.
November 16, 2009, The New York Times — In a reflection of the challenges many arts companies are facing, including a need to develop new audiences and balance the books, New York City Ballet on Monday announced that it was creating an executive director position to oversee all nonartistic matters and named Katherine E. Brown, chief operating officer of the public radio station WNYC, to the job.
WASHINGTON, November 16, 2009, The New York Times — The number of Americans who lived in households that lacked consistent access to adequate food soared last year, to 49 million, the highest since the government began tracking what it calls “food insecurity” 14 years ago, the Department of Agriculture reported Monday.
November 16, 2009, The New York Times — This week, Lorie A. Slutsky, president of the New York Community Trust, will answer questions on community philanthropy, the value of many different approaches to charitable giving, and their importance in maintaining a strong democracy.
WASHINGTON, November 11, 2009, The New York Times — IT was standing room only in a Detroit hotel ballroom last week as the leaders of hundreds of nonprofits poured in to hear one of President Obama’s top advisers describe a new government fund meant to help innovative, successful nonprofits expand their reach.
November 11, 2009, The New York Times — The latest tax filing for Goldman Sachs’s foundation is as thick as a phone book. The list of trades is more than 200 pages, single spaced. Goldman, it seems, invests like no other, even for its own charity.
November 13, 2009, The New York Times — THE expectation in America is that people who do well give back to society. For the wealthy, it is one way to stave off charges of being greedy. And in the boom times, being seen as philanthropic seemed a social and political obligation.
