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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1]

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We included them in the study because that was the most recent return we had for them. The largest one, reporting $2.3

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

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Numbers from more recent studies, like the 2008 Report on Charitable Confidence by the Brookings Institution, show that public confidence in the sector has risen somewhat since then, but is still disturbingly low—and projected to stay that way. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Thats a pretty disturbing statistic!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Myths about Women as.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. According to the study, ". in 2008, which accounts for 40% of privately held U.S. businesses. "Men