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...It’s quite typical in situations of leadership transition in any not-for-profit organization for donors giving major gifts to wait for new leadership to be in place before finalizing and announcing a major commitment,” she said...
...permanent president to assuage donor uneasiness. Campaigns are the University’s most powerful tool for raising large sums of money for capital expenditures at the University. The most recent capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised $2.6 billion. “As at most not-for-profit organizations, the very largest gifts are generally made when there is a senior leader in place,” writes Donella Rapier, the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, in an e-mail. “During periods of transition donors typically don?...
Maghen is one of 27 seniors at her school who take part in the Wise Individualized Senior Experience (WISE) program, a not-for-profit internship initiative in place in nearly 70 public and private high schools in California, New York, Florida and nine other states. Seniors in WISE earn class credit by completing unpaid internships in their areas of interest. "The students begin to see a connection between their academics and their life goals," says Nancy Schneider, who founded Milken's WISE program in 2000. "Their motivation soars, and they become very committed to meeting their responsibilities." This year Schneider...
...Around 1 million New Zealanders - almost another Auckland - are thought to be living overseas. Ross McConnell, chief executive of the not-for-profit Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) is trying to get his fellow citizens to think of New Zealand as a "globally connected nation of 5 million people, rather than as an isolated country of 4 million people." Last week McConnell launched an online global census (www.everyonecounts.co. nz) to find out more about those missing Kiwis. "Knowing more about this community will have practical benefits, and will help us better define ourselves as a nation," he says. Since...
...That's regardless of which child-care path parents choose. While the not-for-profit sector treads water, private care has grown rapidly since it became eligible for government subsidies in 1991. About two-thirds of Australia's long-day-care centers are now privately run - 660 of them by Brisbane-based ABC Learning Centres, the world's largest listed child-care provider. Not everyone welcomes the boom. Gordon Cleveland, a child-care economist at the University of Toronto, says Canadian observers are dismayed by Australia's "dependence on the corporate sector - it really frightens us." He argues that child...