Charity Dynamics clients raise over $5 million

Ford Foundation launching five-year, $85 million initiative to make rural and indigenous people a stronger part of global response to climate change, saying that engaging these populations is essential to reducing poverty and building long-term climate solutions.

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Corporation for National and Community Service awarded $1.4 million to help local organizations in 14 states engage over 4,200 new retired senior volunteers to increase student achievement, promote energy efficiency, and support independent living for seniors, people with disabilities, and veterans.

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Joyce Foundation, Chicago, awarding total of $15 million to 68 organizations in summer 2010 grant making cycle.

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McCormick Foundation making over $6.3 million over two years in grants to 21 organizations committed to improving early care and education for at-risk children in Illinois.

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Nearly all 750 delegates at Hadassah's 95th convention contributed over $10.6 million to support Hadassah Medical Organization's ongoing innovation and care.

Nancy Murphy, former consultant and former senior vice president, Case Foundation, named vice president of special initiatives, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

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Pace University in New York completed its biggest campaign ever, raising $101 million and exceeding its goal by $1 million.

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David Golden, partner and executive vice president, Revolution LLC, and Sarah Nash, retired vice chairman, JP Morgan, joined board of directors, Blackbaud.

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Blackbaud released new book, Cultivating Lifelong Donors: Stewardship and the Fundraising Pyramid, on best practices for building long-term giving programs.

Paulette Maehara to step down in March 2011 as president and CEO, Association of Fundraising Professionals, after nearly 13 years leading the organization.

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The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, by Beth Kanter and Allison H. Fine, published by Jossey-Bass.

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GuideStar published report, Automatic Revocation of Nonprofits' Tax-Exempt Status: What Nonprofits, Grantmakers, and Donors Need to Know.

Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, launched prospectresearch.com, designed for prospect researchers and fundraising professionals and focusing on fostering new ideas for research practices and promoting benefits of prospect research in fundraising.

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Vignetta Charles, former national health educator, Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies, named vice president of programs and evaluation, National AIDS Fund.

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Tim Schultz, president and executive director, Boettcher Foundation, elected board chair, Colorado Association of Funders.

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Marsha Basloe, executive director, Durham's Partnership for Children, Durham, N.C., named executive director New York State Early Care & Learning Council, Albany, N.Y.

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Over 1,000 Boys & Girls Clubs adopting nFocus Software's TraxSolutions Outcome Measurement Toolkit to track student participation and improve the effectiveness of "Power Hour" program.

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Legal Services Corporation selected search consultants Ellen Brown and Dale Jones of Heidrick & Struggles to handle recruitment of a president.

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Suzanne Beranek, independent consultant and owner of Beranek Communications, named director of communications for policy and philanthropy, Colorado Health Foundation.

Schwab Charitable reported contributions from donors grew 92 percent to over $925 million in fiscal year ended June 30, while its grants to charities grew 21 percent to just under $435 million, and assets under management grew 30 percent to $2.4 billion.

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Miles Wilson, former executive vice president, People's Emergency Center, Philadelphia, named program director for Philadelphia, Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Tammy Larson, formerly with Dedicated Micros and Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, named vice president of customer support, Avectra, provider of web-based association management software.

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Scott Campbell, former national vice president of research programs, American Diabetes Association, named executive director and CEO, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

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Marie Groark, senior program officer for education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, named executive director, The Get Schooled Foundation, New York.

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The American Way to Change: How National Service & Volunteers Are Tranforming America, by Shirley Sagawa, published by Jossey-Bass. 

Salvation Army this week will complete construction of 600 housing shelters in Jacmel, Haiti, to assist in relocating earthquake-displaced Haitians back to their home communities; rebuilding process has employed over 400 Haitians as carpenters and construction crew-members.

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Bank of America partnering with 90 nonprofits and putting 230 civic-minded high schoolers to work this summer as part of its Student Leaders program.

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Mitch-Stuart, provider of travel packages for charitable fundraising, has generated estimated $1 billion for charities since 1994.

 

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Legal Services Corporation will implement recommendations of Government Accountability Office to improve internal controls over grant awards.

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Joseph Lyou, former founder and executive director, California Environmental Rights Alliance, named president and CEO, Coalition for Clean Air, effective in September.

Patricia Russo, former director of merchandising, Borders Group, Ann Arbor, Mich., named development and communications director, Artrain, Ann Arbor.

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Commonfund making additions and changes to leadership team to meet needs of clients moving to outsourced investment management and to support entry into markets for corporate and public-pension plans and other institutional investors; and arranging client service and investment resources to align with investor demand within hedge-fund and private-capital areas.

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National Philanthropic Trust, Jenkintown, Pa., partnering with Hollencrest Capital Management to offer independent charitable gift fund.

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Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania, released investment guide, Haiti: How Can I Help? Models for Donors Seeking Long-Term Impact.

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WealthEngine, provider of wealth-identification and prospect-research tools and analytics, added over 175 million households based on new source data from Acxiom, and last month added data from Hoover, including over 42,000 company profiles with biographical information on over 500,000 executives at public and privately held companies.

David Veneziano, chief financial officer, Women's Initiative, named chief financial and operating officer, ZeroDivide.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance released list of standards national charities most commonly fail to meet when being evaluated by the Alliance against its 20 Standards for Charity Accountability. 

Amy Franze, former executive vice president of development, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, named chief philanthropy officer, Feeding America. 

Convio launched new version of its online marketing, fundraising and advocacy suite.

"Blondes vs. Brunettes' flag football games have raised over $1 million for Alzheimer's Association since its inception in 2005. 

Dilys Tosteson Garcia, former head of headed Garcia & Associates, named executive director, CASA of Los Angeles.

Charity Dynamics says nonprofits have raised over $30 million using its Boundless Fundraising application since the online application was launched 18 months ago, roughly half of it this spring.

Alma Jane Shepard, former senior vice president for institutional advancement, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, named senior vice president for development, American Rivers, Washington, D.C.