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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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$16M Raised. 2M Dips.

DipJar

We’re excited to announce that nonprofit organizations have collectively raised $16 million using DipJar! The idea for the first DipJar came from founder Ryder Kessler in 2008 as a way to tip coffee shop baristas. And man, how it has grown since then! What’s Next?

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Diversity in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

But very few blacks, Hispanics, and others were working directly with donors, the researchers noted.”. Yuha Jung writes of this saying, “According to the most recent United States Census (2011), at least one-third of the American population is comprised of racial minorities. in History from San Jose State University in 2017.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy. It is a basic feature of the charitable sector in the United States. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008.

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How the Alabama Eye Bank Runs Its Entire Organization on FileMaker

Tech Soup

Most organizations nowadays, TechSoup included, rely on their databases to do their work. Whether it be donor and grantmaker tracking, client tracking, e-commerce, or inventory, we probably couldn’t survive very long if our databases didn’t do their jobs. The organization has just two IT people to keep its systems running.

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Research on Gender Pay Gap in Nonprofit Sector

Top Nonprofits

Consider this: The average pay of a white woman in the United States is 78 cents on the dollar, compared to her counterpart… and much lower for women of color (see chart, below). Since 2008, extensive research and conversations have revealed the state of women in nonprofit careers. About Author. Amy DeVita.

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why aren’t more local philanthropists directing their dollars toward these organizations? Our findings have relevance not just for Silicon Valley, but for nonprofits and philanthropists around the country seeking to address widening disconnects between donors and grantees, and gaps between the rich and poor. billion to $4.8

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