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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009.

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2013 NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Lauren-Glenn Davitian

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She is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A. We thought it only fitting that we share a video to document her impact over the years: Past Lifetime Achievement Winners: 2012: Rob Stuart , Evolve Strategies. 2010: Ed Happ , International Red Cross. 2008: Vince Stehle. in Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982).

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Sixty-two percent of respondents felt that the board was ‘well informed” or “very well informed” of its responsibilities” as compared to 58% in 2010. Nonprofit Governance Index 2012: CEO Survey of BoardSource Members.

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Research Friday: How Important is Gift Acknowledgement to Donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

to my alma mater in honor of my graduation year, and have received a thank you email, letter, alumni car decal, and a second thank you letter personally written from a current student at the university. 2010, May 15). For example, I gave $20.08 They call them “worthless,” “not an incentive to give,” and, “a waste of money.”

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Research Friday: Who grants the most? Who gets the most?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2008, the Valley of the Sun made $50.1 The ASU and University of Arizona Foundations are educational foundations that raise money to support their respective institutions. This information can be found in the Center's 2010 Arizona Nonprofits: Scope of the Sector report. We'll be updating this report in 2012.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al.,

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