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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2012 Report

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The Giving USA 2012 report is out and it gives us a look at philanthropic trends from 2011. Giving by individuals, bequest, and family foundations amounted to 88% of total giving in 2011. This figure is one percentage point higher than in 2010. To get the full report go to the Giving USA 2012 website.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

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I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. GiveMN 2012 by the Numbers by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist.

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A New Year: A New Learning Journey Begins

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

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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. ASU Lodestar Center's Arizona Giving and Volunteering 2010 report, pg.

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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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Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? 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 in 2009. percent in 2009. Of course you do.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

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In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

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MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. In 2008, Will was named a John D. and Katherine T.

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