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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

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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 the University of Arizona in Anthropology & Latin American History.

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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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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. 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.

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Social Media and College Admissions

Robert Weiner

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has just published Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study by Eric Mattson and Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

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Her work on nonprofit studies has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Nonprofit Management & Leadership , Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , and Public Management Review. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. For how long have you worked at ASU?

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

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Hager is Associate Professor in the School of Community Resources & Development , where he is co-director of graduate studies in nonprofit leadership and management. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. in organizational sociology at the University of Minnesota with a study of the causes of nonprofit organization closure.

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5 Good Nonprofit Infographics

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Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study A visual version of the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN.