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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

University of Georgia. To celebrate my very first blog post, I decided to be brave: I will introduce an emgerging concept: “Attention Philanthropy” (AP). To celebrate my very first blog post, I decided to be brave: I will introduce an emgerging concept: “Attention Philanthropy” (AP). Chao Guo, Ph.D. Associate Professor.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

Kudos to Georgia Congressman John Lewis for advancing a concurrent resolution back in March to recognize the centenary of the charitable deduction. I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. think tank.

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Top 10 Threats to Higher Ed Computer Systems

Robert Weiner

In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled “ Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students ,&# Jeffrey Young says. They want to nab the identities of students and professors to go on shopping sprees with forged credit cards. You can (and should) read the whole article at [link].

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

Lauren Hasey Maher, Program Manager, National Center for Family Philanthropy. Jeremy Foreman, Executive Director, Georgia Serves. Jennifer Price, Philanthropy Services, RML Specialty Hospital. John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robert Weiner, Owner, Robert L.

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

NTEN

The game creators systematically distributed physical coded bonds in halves to residents in both affluent and lower income neighborhoods in the Macon, Georgia area. The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. Everyone wins!

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Funder collaboratives are key to a vibrant, just, and inclusive democracy 

Candid

Second, as a constituency-led collaborative fund, we act as champions for our communities within philanthropy—driving resources directly and effectively to grassroots organizations on the frontlines of change. In other words, we’ve been practicing trust-based philanthropy long before the phrase was coined.