The Center for
Nonprofit Leadership (CNPL) at Youngstown State University is offering area
non-profit agencies an
opportunity to compete for a fully-funded student intern. Through a
grant from the Raymond
John Wean Foundation, CNPL is implementing an internship
program in the summer
of 2011.
The Nonprofit
Leadership Summer Honors Internship Program is a full-time (40 hours per
week), ten-week (June
7-August 20) internship program designed to provide qualified
students with
career-related work experience in a nonprofit organization. Ten
fully-funded
internships are
available.
The internships will
enable the students to apply the knowledge developed in their chosen
major; learn skills
necessary to a professional level position in a nonprofit organization;
introduce them to
career opportunities available within the nonprofit sector; and enable
area nonprofit
organizations to attract and retain talent by developing the Valley’s future
nonprofit
professionals.
All applications must
be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 11, 2011.
Click here for the Application
Applications can be
sent by mail, fax, email, or hand delivery to:
Laura J. McCaskey,
Director
Center for Nonprofit
Leadership
Youngstown State
University
Williamson College of
Business Administration, #1152
One University
Plaza
Youngstown, OH
44555
Phone:
330-941-1870
FAX:
330-941-1871
Email: LJMcCaskey@ysu.edu
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AFP Introduces Wise
Giving Website to Help Public With Philanthropy
December 7, 2010
The Association of
Fundraising Professionals (AFP) unveiled its new wise giving website,
Change the World With
a Giving--and Wise--Heart (http://www.afpnet.org/GivingHeart) designed
to help donors think
proactively about philanthropy and how they want to improve their communities
through giving and
volunteering. "Many consumers take their time when deciding whether or not
to buy a product, but
they often rush into giving decisions or respond immediately to the most
recent appeal,"
said Paulette V. Maehara, CFRE, CAE, president and CEO of AFP. "Change the
World With a
Giving-and Wise-Heart encourages people to have a greater impact in their
philanthropy by taking
their time, thinking about what they want to accomplish and developing
a giving
plan."
The Change the World
with a Giving-and Wise-Heart website contains a variety of information on
how donors can make
smart choices in their philanthropy, including guidance such as The Five
P's
of Wise
Giving and 25 Ways to Make Your Gifts Go Further. Donors can
learn about different ways
they can support charities,
such as through matching gifts, payroll giving, giving circles, online games
and click-a-day
websites, credit card points and even regifting. Another important focus
of the site is
wise giving and being
able to spot legitimate organizations. Documents such as 25 Ways to Give
Wisely and
the Donor Bill of Rights provides donors with information on how to
ensure they're giving
to worthy charities
and the responsibilities a charity has during the fundraising and giving
process.
The website also tackles
the issue of fundraising costs and how donors should examine costs.
"Donors should
realize that nearly all charities are legitimate, and that fundraising fraud
makes up
less than one percent
of all complaints received annually by the Federal Trade Commission," said
Maehara. "But it
pays to be careful, and Change the World With a Giving-and Wise-Heart
gives
donors the straight
talk on the kinds of things they should be looking for when they contribute,
including fundraising
costs and how to examine them."
The website contains
not only just written documents, but short slide and audio presentations
that summarize many of
the key points. The campaign was inspired by National Philanthropy Day®,
celebrated across
North American in more than 100 communities on Nov. 15, and its theme, Change
the World With a
Giving Heart.
Effective and wise
giving is especially important during the holiday season when, according to
studies
by AFP, charities
typically receive between one-third and one-half of their total annual
contributions.
AFP encourages the
public to use the Change the World With a Giving-and Wise-Heart website before
they make their
holiday charitable gifts, and then throughout the year in all of their
giving decisions.
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Pledge
to Give Away Fortunes Stirs Debate
WITHOUT a doubt, the biggest event in philanthropy
this year was the Giving Pledge*, a commitment
by the wealthiest
Americans to give away at least half of their fortunes.
The goals of the
pledge, which was organized by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren E. Buffett,
were to
stimulate discussion
about philanthropy among the ultrawealthy and unleash a wave of me-tooism among
others that would
bring about “the Second Great Wave of Philanthropy,” in the words of Sean
Stannard-Stockton, a
blogger and philanthropic consultant. Indeed, the Giving Pledge and the attention it
has attracted come at
a time of economic weakness, high unemployment, raging political
debates about
whether to extend tax
cuts or allow them to expire, the seemingly uncontrollable cost of health care
—
and the increasing
income gap between the signatories and a vast majority of Americans.
Pledge founders and
signers and their supporters marvel that anyone would find fault with it. “I
hardly
know what to say,” Mr.
Buffett said by telephone. “Philanthropy is a tradition in America.” Americans
give
away about $300
billion a year, he said, or the equivalent of 2 percent of gross domestic
product. “It
doesn’t seem to have
done any harm in the country so far.”
Mr. Gates said the
pledge and the discussions about it would improve the practice of philanthropy.
“We
will never be able to
measure how much the group gets people to do more giving or do it in a better
way,” he wrote via
e-mail. “However, I think the impact is likely to be quite positive.” In
fact, Mr. Gates
said, the pledge is a
tool for addressing income disparity because it is a mechanism for the
redistribution
of wealth.
Mr. Stannard-Stockton
said he was baffled by the criticism of the pledge. “Even if only one
additional
person took it up, at the levels of net worth we’re talking about, that could be $450
million more that
would be out there
doing something good,” he said.
“There’s something in
the American DNA that is suspicious of enormous concentrations of wealth, even
when directed toward
the public good,” said William A. Schambra, director of the Bradley Center for
Philanthropy and Civic
Renewal at the Hudson Institute. “True, we are proud of our charitable impulse
in the broadest sense,
but we think of that in terms of writing a check to the local Red Cross or Boys
and Girls Club, not
billionaires doling out millions and perhaps influencing the political agenda.”
Bernard Marcus, the
co-founder of Home Depot and a pledge signatory, said he saw no grounds for
the current criticism.
“All this money is going for charity to help people — what kind of numbskull
would
find something wrong
with that?” he asked in a telephone interview. “Would they rather we bought
yachts and built
mansions?” Mr. Marcus and his wife, Billi, are making gifts to help Atlanta,
their
hometown, develop as a
medical center that will rival Houston and New York. The Marcuses have
donated heavily to
bring biotechnology, particularly nanotechnology, to Atlanta, and their gifts have
helped generate jobs
and innovative research. “I’m very politically active,” he added, “but
that has
nothing to do with my
charity.”
Alfred E. Mann, the
founder of the MannKind Corporation and a pledge signer, said he thought
concerns about philanthropists
having undue influence on policy were overblown. Mr. Mann said he
had worried about
whether the pledge would draw attention to income disparity, observing: “The
differential between
the wealthy and the poor is too great. I think the country has gotten too
materialistic, and
compensation in areas like entertainment and athletics and in corporations have
been outrageous.”
Marc Benioff, the
billionaire founder of SalesForce.com, was not asked to sign the pledge. He has
made a $100 million
gift to the Children's Hospital at the University of California, San
Francisco, the
capstone of 20 years
of gifts to support wide-ranging causes. The pledge, he said, was a good idea
“very poorly
executed.” He added, “Philanthropy should be about impact. I noticed a lot of
the
pledges were to
multigenerational trusts and not to immediate philanthropic work. That’s not
going
to help anyone.”
Despite those
comments, Mr. Benioff disagreed with other criticism of the pledge. “What we
should
be talking about here
is a generation of entrepreneurs who built businesses that created jobs,
sparked economic
growth and created solutions for complex problems,” he said. “Now they’re
giving away their
wealth — why are we being critical of that?”
|
* |
As stated on www.givingpledge.org, “The Giving Pledge is an effort to invite the
wealthiest
individuals and
families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to
philanthropy.”
As of January 19,
2010, the following people have signed on: |
|
Paul G. Allen |
Joe & Rika Mansueto |
|
Laura & John Arnold |
Bernie & Billi Marcus |
|
Nicolas Berggruen |
Michael & Lori Milken |
|
Michael R. Bloomberg |
George P. Mitchell |
|
Eli & Edythe Broad |
Thomas S. Monaghan |
|
Warren Buffett |
Tashia & John Morgridge |
|
Jean & Steve Case |
Dustin Moskovitz |
|
Michele Chan & Patrick Soon-Shiong |
Pierre & Pam Omidyar |
|
Lee & Toby Cooperman |
Bernard & Barbro Osher |
|
Barry Diller & Diane von
Furstenberg |
Ronald O. Perelman |
|
Ann & John Doerr |
Peter G. Peterson |
|
Larry Ellison |
T. Boone Pickens |
|
Ted Forstmann |
Julian H. Robertson, Jr. |
|
Bill & Melinda Gates |
David Rockefeller |
|
David and Barbara Green |
David M. Rubenstein |
|
Jeff Greene |
Herb & Marion Sandler |
|
Lyda Hill |
Denny Sanford |
|
Barron Hilton |
Vicki & ROger Sant |
|
Jon & Karen Huntsman |
Walter Scott, Jr. |
|
Carl Icahn |
Tom & Cindy Secunda |
|
Joan & Irwin Jacobs |
Jim & Marilyn Simons |
|
George B. Kaiser |
Jeff Skoll |
|
Sidney Kimmel |
Tom Steyer & Kat Taylor |
|
Elaine & Ken Langone |
Jim & Virginia Stowers |
|
Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest |
Ted Turner |
|
Lorry I. Lokey |
Sanford & Joan Weill |
|
George Lucas |
Shelby White |
|
Duncan & Nancy MacMillan |
Charles Zegar & Merryl Snow Zegar |
|
Alfred E. Mann |
Mark Zuckerberg |
