The American Council on Gift Annuities has recently released its report of the 2004 survey.  The full report can be had for a nominal charge at ACGA. 829 CHARITIES COMPLETED THE QUESTIONNAIRES THAT WERE THE BASIS OF THE SURVEY. An interesting trend is that the number of contributions has increased for gift annuities while charitable remainder trusts has decreased. This ...

The Non Profit Times, nptimes, in a recent issue , projected what Foundations and On-line giving will  be like in 5 years. Dorothy Ridings, president of the Council on Foundations, discussed Foundations and Rick Christ, Sr. consultant of upadvisiors.com, discussed On-line giving. For Foundations, Riding says that the current scrutiny will cause the field to become more resilient and robust, ...

Is there a place in the John Templeton Foundation for the American Cancer Society? John Templeton was born in 1912 in Tennessee. He worked his way through Yale, some say by playing poker and winning..  He won on Wall Street too in 1939 by buying 100 shares of 104 companies selling at a $1 or less.  He turned a large ...

Americans grow more comfortable with electronic donations, a study says in the Philanthropy Journal, today.  More than 8.6 million American households donated more than $3 billion on line last year, up  58 percent from 2003. Three in four donors who go on line before donating say on line information helped them to decide whether or not to give, More than ...