Byline: Anne Swardson
In the next month or so, Americans can expect to find their mailboxes stuffed with solicitations from universities, museums, religious groups, arts organizations and charities. All will carry the same message: Give now while the giving is good.
Charitable institutions are telling millions of contributors, some in not- so-subtle terms, that provisions of the tax-overhaul bill signed into law by President Reagan Wednesday will make donations more costly on an after-tax basis, effective next year.
"TAX ALERT," blares the headline of a flyer from Wellesley College, replete with a six-column table indicating that the after-tax cost of giving could rise …
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