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Justin Ware is the Director of Social Media for Bentz Whaley Flessner. Justin provides our clients with his proven experience in new media technologies, specifically with diagnostic assessments of their social media strategies; content production guidance, counsel and training in social graph development and video communication, and coaching for nonprofit leadership in press and media interaction. Justin brings nearly a decade of video communica…
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the highest-paid private-college leader in this year’s survey, joins 22 other private-college presidents with compensation above $1-million, according to an annual survey of the compensation packages of private-college chiefs (a companion survey of public-college presidents will be released in January). A total of 110 presidents of the 419 private colleges included in t…
Traditionally, when it comes to philanthropy, there has been private philanthropy, and there has been government philanthropy, and rarely did the two meet. But that division is now changing, as a growing number of philanthropists are looking at new opportunities in so-called public-private partnerships. Full text article by Shelly Banjo is available via the Wall Street Journal, 11/9/09. …
Demand is dipping at New York’s elite private elementary schools as the weak economy hits parents’ ability to pay tuitions exceeding $30,000 a year. The number of children taking entrance exams for private schools this year dropped 4.4 percent to 4,259, continuing a slide that began in 2009, according to the organization that administers the tests. Public-school enrollment in New York City rose for the first time since 2002. Full te…
A private high school outside Philadelphia has received $30-million from the estate of a 1950 graduate. Barbara Dodd Anderson, who died in November at age 78, had previously donated $128.5-million to the George School, a Quaker institution in Newtown, Pa. Full article text is available via The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2/2/2011. …
The California Endowment has announced the creation of a $200 million public-private loan fund that will support efforts to increase access to healthy and affordable food in underserved communities, spur economic development, and inspire innovation in healthy food retailing. Announced at a special White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, the California FreshWorks Fund will build on the success of the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Fina…
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced a partnership with financial institutions and the federal government to help preserve federally subsidized rental housing in underserved markets. Through its $150 million rental housing preservation initiative, “Window of Opportunity,” the Chicago-based foundation will provide a $20 million guaranty for the program with the aim of attracting $100 million for nonprofit de…
Colleges around the country are banking more heavily on increased support from the federal government to help students weather the financial aid storm; a recent survey by the research firm Student Lending Analytics found that 10.7% of colleges in the subsidized program are switching to direct federal lending for the 2009-10 academic year. Full-text article is available via theday.com, 5.4.09. …
Colleges and universities have traditionally placed a much higher premium on generating both annual and planned gifts than the majority of hospitals. Rather than expounding on the many legitimate reasons why this is the case, let’s focus on steps the Board, the Executive Suite, and the Chief Development Officer (CDO) can take. Full-text post by Jim Mahon is available via Better Hospitals – http://www.better-hospitals.com/ …
Ken Nopar, who advises others about philanthropy, will face his own decision on charitable giving when his parents die. Should he and his brother keep their parents’ private foundation going or transfer the assets into a donor-advised fund, where they have less control over how the money is invested and given away? This is a question many philanthropically inclined people are asking themselves in the aftermath of the financial crisis and increas…
