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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts after completing a study in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, a New York City charity that buys and cancels medical debt. The remaining 80% of accounts had already been farmed out to independent collectors.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

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do not feel their education was worth the cost, colleges and universities have to work harder and smarter to recruit, enroll, and retain students. With fewer young individuals entering the age cohort traditionally associated with college attendance, institutions face the risk of lower enrollment rates.

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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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In September of 1915, he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) before establishing the second week of February as Negro History Week in 1925. Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History designates a theme for Black History Month.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. For the past year, I have been studying how volunteer managers (in nonprofits and government) have approached various technologies during the pandemic. federal government agency. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Mark A.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Mark Hager Associate Professor ASU School of Community Resources and Development. To provide some relief for these steep rates, the federal government provided ways for households to reduce their taxable income. The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. On October 3, to raise money for the war, the U.S.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. Results from my most recent Volunteer Management Capacity Study are now posted at the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) Honestly, the new study reveals that a lot of things have NOT changed much since 2003.