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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.

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Research Friday: Government contracting part II: Adapting in an era of less

ASU Lodestar Center

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In

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Guest Post Vincent Stehle: Disinfecting Dirty Elections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. We’d like to thank Ellen and the Sunlight Foundation for giving copies of the book to nonprofit and foundation leaders at last week’s Independent Sector Conference.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Only a very small amount of data is needed to produce quite a lot of information about each and every one of us and the law is so far behind the times that according to Facebook’s Deputy General Counselor, Mark Howitson , the social networking website aggressively invites litigation because they need new case law to set precedent.