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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Shneidman, PhD started the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. It was updated in 2012, and the Office of the U.S. Donate to support their mission here.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

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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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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

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In 2008, Will was named a John D. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. and Katherine T.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Most of the grantmakers in Arizona are private foundations. Even though they're nonprofits, private foundations are a little bit different, legally, than other nonprofits. Arizona is home to over 1,000 private foundations, and, as most people answered correctly in the quiz, the largest is the Virginia G.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Every Memory Matters is expected to go live in January, 2012, when Granito is broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Social Impact Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

Recent trends in philanthropic giving indicate that the new generation of donors has a high interest in ensuring that their donations generate outcomes (Flandez, 2012). Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study. 2012, June 21). Sources: Ategeka, C. Flandez, R.

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