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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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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. Suicide is a serious public health problem. In October 1998, the first National Suicide Prevention Conference was held in Reno, Nevada.

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

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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. For the nonprofit sector, the GFC wreaked havoc on donations and budgets. Many nonprofits were caught off guard by the GFC’s impact on charitable giving. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. percent in 2009.

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2013 NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Lauren-Glenn Davitian

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Each year, we honor an individual who has been instrumental in shaping the field of nonprofit technology, and paved the way for the rest of us. She is a well-known spokeswoman on behalf of public telecommunications and first amendment issues both locally and in the state capital. 2008: Vince Stehle. 2011: Judy Hallman , RTPNet.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online.

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Results Of The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2013 Survey on Corporate Giving

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For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. percent increase in 2012 to $5.3

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

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Here goes … My experience in the nonprofit sector started a little differently than most. In the early part of 2000, I was working for a large engineering company, SAIC , when I was approached by two coworkers about setting up a technology nonprofit. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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

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For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. percent increase in 2012 to $5.3