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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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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations. 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.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Some of the other large private foundations in Arizona include the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy and the Flinn Foundation. In 2008, the Valley of the Sun made $50.1 The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) tops the list; in 2009, the MDA received $175.4 We'll be updating this report in 2012. Like this article?

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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. The Heart Association matches their commercial enterprise with the maker of Lean Cuisine® to align closely to their mission. This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices. What should bother us is the possibility of lower educational value being associated with the flood of cheap CE “products” into the market. Slope of Enlightenment.

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The Story in the Numbers

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. As an example, in 2008, we accounted for $1,772,761 in capitalization of a major website upgrade for our Bookshare library. This form of revenue is typically booked at the same time as the associated expenses. and Catherine T.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

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So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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