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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. If you’re in the Washington DC area, stop by for one of our happy hours. Founded by a group of early cryptocurrency users, BlockShop DC is a nonprofit serving as a blockchain incubator and event space in Washington DC.

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How Millennials are Transforming Politics and the Public Sector

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Millennials turned out to vote in record numbers in 2008. A 2016 Washington Post expose. and its premier media partner The Washington Post will present a two-hour bipartisan forum that will address the main issues facing Millennial voters. is heard by attending the MCON Political Town Hall presented by The Washington Post.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Before moving to Phoenix, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. think tank.

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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2011 Report

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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. Kaufman to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. I’ve pulled out five interesting facts that might get overlooked in all the fuss about the high level findings.

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16 Million 2-1-1 Calls in 2009

VisionLink

This is an increase of 13% in call volume over 2008. VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.