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Matching Gift Automation: What 11 Nonprofits Have to Say

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Industry-Leading Matching Gift Provider, Double the Donation According to our analysis of the aforementioned criteria, along with its overwhelmingly positive user testimonials, we’ve determined that the industry-leading matching gift software provider is a company called Double the Donation.

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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. Sources: [1] Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA 2012, pg.

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Charitable Giving Grew to $373.25 Billion in the U.S. in 2015

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Giving USA is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. compared to a growth rate of 27.8% The two year cumulative change in giving, across both 2014 and 2015, shows that arts, culture, and humanities organizations have grown the most with a 20% growth rate.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

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7 The report suggests three significant factors of importance: unemployment rate, changes in federal and state budgets, and the state economy. This study "underscores the need for many nonprofit organizations to assess their financial monitoring mechanisms in light of the environment of analysis and accountability."

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6 Key Insights from the Inaugural donorCentrics Athletics Benchmarking Group

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Do keep in mind that this analysis will share aggregate data trends only. That was particularly useful for this setting because we could overlay information such as win-rate and schedule to discuss the impact those variables had on the fundraising trends overall. Schedule or Win Rate? Are big rivals coming to town this year?

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

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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. Right now, Charity Navigator is in the midst of beta testing CN2.0 , which is the first step beyond simple ratio analysis.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the questions vary between the version for private foundations or small nonprofits, the 990 collects details on the financial, governance and organizational structure of America’s universities, hospitals, foundations, and charities to the end of ensuring that they are deserving of tax exempt status. When the U.S.

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