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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Mark Hager Associate Professor ASU School of Community Resources and Development. The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. On October 3, to raise money for the war, the U.S. think tank.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Social Media Study Finds Most Nonprofits Have Presence on Facebook But Raising Little Money - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

May 7, 2009 | Kimberley Le Sueur I run the OpenTravel Allliance (www.opentravel.org),and as a not-for-profit trade association serving the travel industry, it doesnt make sense for us to be on Facebook. May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo.

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Guest Post: Shaking up the Ecological Landscape

Museum 2.0

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). Dr. McGonigal’s CFM lecture on “Gaming the Future of Museums” (given at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan.

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Research Friday: Is traditional civic engagement dead?

ASU Lodestar Center

This thought is not original; it is outlined in a recent policy paper by Peter Levine of the Jonathan M. It reports on a 2008 study of the American public by the National Conference on Citizenship that found that almost one third of the respondents did not know what the term "civic engagement" meant. and James L.

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

Bloomerang

So we’ve got a small efficient staff located everywhere from Montana down to Arizona and over to Washington DC. 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.

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