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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

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. 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 Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Results Of The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2013 Survey on Corporate Giving

Tech Soup

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2013 Survey on Corporate Giving and Akhtar Badshah of Microsoft on How To Get Corporate Grants

Tech Soup

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook.

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Why I Left My Job to Go to Work for the Nonprofit Sector

Tech Soup

This happened over and over until, in November 2012, I was finally "done," and I left the San Diego Futures Foundation ( SDFF ). When I left, SDFF had a staff of 36 and a budget of $4.5 The value of the resources we provided to the community was estimated to exceed $25 million.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

The United Way is a public charity — not a grantmaking foundation — but, as 58% of quiz takers recognized, it is the number one grantmaker in Arizona. In 2008, the Valley of the Sun made $50.1 We'll be updating this report in 2012. It turns out not to be the Piper Trust — or any other private foundation, for that matter!

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Listening through data doesn’t give you omniscient insight into how to win advocacy campaigns (and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you something!). Digital listening just gives you a new set of tools and processes to help confront hard strategic questions. The Media Theory of Movement Power.

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How to Get Beyond B-Minus: The State of Nonprofit Boards Today

BoardAssist

If you were to assign a grade to the board on which you serve, what grade would you give it? While there is lots of good news to share, the bottom line is that nonprofit leaders give nonprofit boards a “B minus” grade in overall performance. Earlier this year BoardSource asked nonprofit CEOs to rate their boards.