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Corporate Giving Declined in 2008

Robert Weiner

overall in 2008. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 million in 2007). Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7%

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GivingUSA Reports a Drop in 2008 Giving

Robert Weiner

philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 This was a two percent drop in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation) compared to 2007’s $314.07 percent compared with 2007 estimates (-6.3 Taking inflation into account, U.S.

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Top 10 blog posts of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! This blog entry from 2007 is about being open about one’s mistakes. It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.).

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13 of the Best Nonprofit Videos from the Last 13 Years

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s Time | Marriage Equality. The Things They Said… Survival International. World Hunger: A Billion for a Billion. World Food Programme. Hollywood Declares Themselves. The world has changed. You can too. World Wildlife Fund Canada. Global Night Commute: I Got Soul. Invisible Children. Hey Detroit. Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. According to Candid data, funding from large foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits more than doubled between 2007 and 2019, from $14.5 Top 10 foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits, 2007-2019. million to $35.6 Next in line were the W.K.

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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Corporate Giving Declined in 2008

Tech Soup

overall in 2008. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 million in 2007). Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7%

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