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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

Only a relative few independent foundations in the United States and Canada have made public contributions, such as $500,000 from the Patterson Foundation in Florida; $250,000 from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in Maryland; and $188,000 from the Coram Deo Foundation in Canada. to make the gift. million ($122 million).

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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

Kevin is a member of CTOs for Good and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.S. If they offer gift registries, they could add charitable gift options with our API. They could start a loyalty program where they reward customers with gift cards redeemed on their own website. in Economics.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

That would have been the end of the story, except the University of Maryland Cancer Center that produced the half marathon worked with the owner to tell Dozer’s story and gain priceless publicity for the event. Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013. You can’t pay for that kind of publicity.

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4 Takeaways from #AG2014 Social Media

Connection Cafe

Similarly to posting pictures, this will help donors better understand the impact of their gift. Melissa is a Baltimore, Maryland native and graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Psychology. Instead of simply posting “Donate now!” on your site, reference a current initiative that you are working towards.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » I am Michael Hoffman

See3

This Michael Hoffman was born in Baltimore, Maryland and is the son of Barbara and Donald Hoffman, brother of Alan and Carolyn Hoffman, and husband of Jessica Kaz and father to a bunch of kids. I am not on the anthropology faculty of the University of Arkansas. I hope they appreciate the gift. My kids won’t.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al.,

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