The NonProfit Times - March 1, 2009 - (Page 18) BUSINESS BRIEFS had less than 600 parts per million total lead content and less than 0.1 percent specific phthalates, an element that effects plasticity. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) clarified that under the new safety law,“sellers of used children’s products, such as thrift stores and consignment stores, are not required to certify that those products meet the new lead limits, phthalates standard or new toy standard.” The bill, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Aug. 14, did not make a distinction between domestic manufacturers and resellers, such as nonprofit thrift stores. Before the clarification, nonprofits like Rockville, Md.-based Goodwill Industries International and The Salvation Army, based in Alexandria, Va., were waiting to see how the law would affect their large thrift store operations. While nonprofit thrift stores will not be required to test all materials, resellers can face civil and/or criminal penalties if they sell products that violate the new limits under the law. The CPSC recommended that nonprofit thrift stores should be especially discriminating towards products that may contain lead, including jewelry, painted toys and products with small parts, such as buttons, that a child could swallow. – Michele Donohue HOSPITAL CUTBACKS FORESEEN IN CAPITAL, EQUIPMENT Only 8 percent of hospital fundraising executives who expect to raise less money this year than in 2008 said their institutions would have to reduce community services, according to a survey by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP). Budgets are more likely to be trimmed in the areas of expanding or renovating health care facilities (36 percent) or purchasing new equipment (35 percent), according to the first major recession survey of 2009 compiled by AHP. More than three-quarters of fundraisers for nonprofit hospitals and health care systems say the current recession is negatively affecting their programs, with almost half are reducing their giving forecasts for this year. Those reducing their 2009 revenues foresee average declines in giving of about 17 percent. About 40 percent of respondents expect cuts to their operating budgets, with an average reduction of about 12 percent, according to the survey. Three-quarters of those surveyed expect no changes in staff size, but 14 percent anticipate a decrease against 10 percent that foresee an increase. Barely one in five members expect to eliminate or significantly reduce their involvement in fundraising programs. If members do plan to reduce programs, almost two-thirds (63 percent) of those will scale back on special fundraising events such as canceling high-end galas or delaying capital campaigns (28 percent) but just as many (65 percent) will increase their development efforts, namely in the areas of planned giving (53 percent), major gifts (47 percent) and donor relations (44 percent). About three out of four AHP members report the recession is affecting their programs “somewhat negatively,” but 13 percent report no effect and one in 10 said it’s “very negative.” “Despite the deepening recession, hospitals and health care systems will continue to exercise skill, planning and patience in order to raise scarcer donations which are designed to serve both the insured and uninsured," said William McGinly, president and CEO of the Falls Church,Va.-based association whose members direct philanthropic programs in 2,200 North American health care institutions. -- Mark Hrywna THRIFT SHOPS EXEMPTED FROM LEAD RULES Nonprofit thrift stores dodged a bullet as a change to new consumer testing requirements clarified a law that threatened to paralyze children’s clothing sales by February and would have hit consumers relying on thrift stores for child clothing and toys in the tough economy. 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