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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Let’s start with the basics. Why does that matter?

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Research on Gender Pay Gap in Nonprofit Sector

Top Nonprofits

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been listening to those working in the nonprofit sector for years. Since 2008, extensive research and conversations have revealed the state of women in nonprofit careers. Find out more about the research and how to work toward closing the gender pay gap.

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Diversity in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

The ‘Daring to Lead’ study found that 82 percent of executive directors were white, that recently hired executives were just as likely to be white as their longer-serving colleagues and that executive directors under 40 were only slightly less likely to be white.”. in History from Arizona State University in 2008 and earned an M.A.

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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

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 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. from University of Chicago in Anthropology & Latin American Studies and a B.A.

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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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Cn U Raise $ Via Txt?

Robert Weiner

, and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I’m posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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