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Client Spotlight: Joseph Maley Foundation

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According to the World Health Organization , International Day of People with Disabilities is a “United Nations Day celebrated on December 3 rd every year. Joseph Maley Foundation , established in 2008, is cultivating a more accepting, respectful, and inclusive community through education and service programs for youth. Who they are.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

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Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

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Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2011 Report

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The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009.

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

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Although it's legally housed in Indiana, it maintains an Arizona office and does roughly half its grantmaking in Arizona. In 2008, the Valley of the Sun made $50.1 As 52% of our quiz takers recognized, this is not a local affiliate of the MDA, but is the national headquarters, located in Tucson, Arizona.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

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The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

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According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4 Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A To get your invitation visit [link].).

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