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

ASU Lodestar Center

On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent. One in three. The number seems high to some people and low to others. One in four.

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I Want to Be a Grassroots Philanthropist!

Have Fun - Do Good

Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. Somerville recommends that grantmakers spend at least 30% of their work-week in the field looking for, and meeting with people who are working to make the world a better place: "Without good people, great ideas rate merely as words.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57 If you invest that money in fundraising, the rate of return is going to be 10 times what it is in the stock market.

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