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News Briefing: Pepsi Charity Contest Trips Over Its Own Submission Rules
Pepsi Refresh, the most ambitious so far among a number of similar contests using social networks on the Internet to riase money, stumbles over its own rules. [New York Times] The Department of...
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News Briefing: States Move to Revoke Charities’ Tax Exemptions
Michael Hintze, founder of hedge-fund manager CQS, is one of the public faces of philanthropy in the U.K. [Wall Street Journal] Scoring charitable work is evolving from an art into a science. [Wall...
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News Briefing: Same-Sex Marriage Leads Catholic Charities to Adjust Benefits
Employees at Catholic Charities are told that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex parters of its workers. [Washington Post] Museums...
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News Briefing: Flying Nun Leads Fund-Raising Drives for Haiti
Sister Jane Meyer, principal at St. Agnes Academy in Houston and a Dominican sister for more than 50 years, pledged to take a 14,000-foot leap out of an airplane if her students raised $25,000 for...
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News Briefing: Older Workers Bring New Purpose to Volunteer Work
Volunteerism is on the rise, and it is the older population that is behind it. [New York Times] The Department of Education announces the 16 first-round finalists in the federal grant competition...
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News Briefing: Donations from Americans for Haiti top $1 Billion
The former chief operating officer of Catholic Charities has called on the organization to reverse its recent decision to change health benefits for employees’ spouses. [Washington Post] According to...
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News Briefing: Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress
The Shapiro Foundation, which lost $145 million in the collapse of Madoff’s scheme, has issued a series of bulletins offering to help former grant recipients find new funders, link with other groups...
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News Briefing: Charities Spend Millions On Census Outreach
The local chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation replaces its president after an investigation by its national headquarters into staff complaints. [Washington Post] A reculsive Malaysian billionaire’s...
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News Briefing: Obama Names Charities Receiving His Nobel Prize Money
President Obama releases the names of the charities that will receive his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money. [New York Times] A group of Republican senators questions high salaries and...
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News Briefing: Salvation Army is a Residential Real Estate Powerhouse
Catholic Charities of Washington has begun requiring new employees to promise they will not violate the principles or tenets of the church. [Washington Post] The Salvation Army owns houses in Los...
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