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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

The United States’ workforce has seen momentous changes over the last four decades. Instead, they rely on the same kinds of funding streams as traditional community-based nonprofits: individual donations, volunteers, and support from institutional philanthropy. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. million to $35.6

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. 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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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. It is a basic feature of the charitable sector in the United States. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. On October 3, to raise money for the war, the U.S. So, Happy Birthday to the Charitable Deduction! think tank. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. The Giving Code examines the health of our region’s nonprofit and philanthropy sectors—their size and shape, how they operate, and where they do or do not intersect.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. We watched and cheered at the top of our lungs as Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. I wasn’t the only one.

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Philanthropy 2.0 Study Results Published on Mashable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. Interest in exploring these models has been rising in the United States, but they are much more common in Europe.

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