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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

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The year is 2008. Put out a mailing to past donors, create a marketing campaign and yet another fundraiser. (A Our nonprofit 50l(c)(3) child advocacy agency survived the Great Recession of 2008-2013. Defenders of Children headquartered in Phoenix has served statewide some 6,000 at-risk children and kinship during that time.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs We welcome your comments and feedback. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Lost Your Tax-Exemption? What Next ?

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In 2008 the IRS instituted the 990-N that requires those with $25,000 or less income to annually file; this is a postcard form. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report. Central Ave.

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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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The Tech That Will Change 2016

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For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Remember Samantha, the smartphone OS in the movie Her that Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with? This past year, U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

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Numbers from more recent studies, like the 2008 Report on Charitable Confidence by the Brookings Institution, show that public confidence in the sector has risen somewhat since then, but is still disturbingly low—and projected to stay that way. Thats a pretty disturbing statistic! Central Ave.