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September 8, 2010 From New York Times
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners.
She implored the runners to join a social networking...
September 8, 2010 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
Fundraisers expect to see more and more donors making contributions prompted by tax considerations in coming months. As a result, they expect a surge in large gifts this year and next. Federal lawmakers are considering at least half a dozen tax changes, and most would have the
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September 8, 2010 From SGV Tribune
BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett plan to sell the art of giving to China's super rich in a visit later this month that's already sparked some soul searching among the world's second-largest number of billionaires. Reactions to Gates and Buffett's trip have been...
September 8, 2010 From Charities Aid Foundation
The World Giving Index, the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour across the globe, which ranked the UK the eighth most charitable nation in the world, has found that happier people are more likely to give money to charity than those who are wealthy. The World Giving Index...
September 7, 2010 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
Nonprofit groups added jobs during the recession, according to an analysis of government data from 21 states by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies.
Nonprofit employment in those states grew by an average of 2.5 percent a year from the second quarter of 2007 to the...
September 7, 2010 From Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin has an estimated 6,000 small, tax-exempt organizations that could put their tax-free status at risk if they don't fill out and file Form 990-N e-Postcard, said Christopher Miller, an IRS spokesman.
In Milwaukee alone, just under 1,000 organizations that take in $25,000 or less a year are...
September 7, 2010 From Getting Attention
Voting is now open for the 2010 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards.
Vote now for the winners of the 2010 Taggies — the 3rd Annual Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards.
Seventy tagline finalists have been carefully culled from the more than 2,700 taglines
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September 7, 2010 From Government Executive
The federal government's annual charity drive has started, and organizers in the National Capital Area are hoping to set new records for participation this year despite tough economic times. On Sept. 1, the Combined Federal Campaign launched its 2010 season of giving, and federal employees nationwide will have until Dec....
September 6, 2010 From New York Times
Representative Joe Baca has achieved near celebrity status in his suburban Los Angeles district, as much for his record of giveaways Thanksgiving turkeys, college scholarships, spare boots for firefighters as for anything he has done in Congress. That generosity is made possible by the Joe Baca Foundation, a charity his...
September 4, 2010 From PR-USA.net
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® and Chili's® Grill & Bar are tapping into the power of the digital world, making it easier than ever for guests to donate to St. Jude during the seventh annual Create-A-Pepper to Fight Childhood Cancer campaign. September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness month and now...
September 3, 2010 From Philanthropy Journal
The outpouring of charitable giving in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti reinforced the fact that people who give for emergency relief differ from everyday donors, a new study says.
Thirty-eight percent of Americans gave to help Haiti, including 52 percent of donors who regularly give to
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September 3, 2010 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
American charities say they haven’t raised nearly what they need to help Pakistan’s flood victims.
Aid workers report that they are being forced to decide which assistance programs are most urgent, scale back plans to serve more people, and close clinics ahead of schedule because they lack sufficient
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September 3, 2010 From Council on Foundations
In recognition for its innovative support for American troops, veterans, and their families affected by war, the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund (IADIF) of the California Community Foundation earned the Council on Foundations’ 2010 Critical Impact Award. Three IADIF partners – the Dallas, Permian Basin Area,...
September 3, 2010 From Philanthropy News Digest
Microsoft has announced the expansion of Elevate America, a community initiative that aims to provide twenty-first century technology skills to people in need of employment.
Through the initiative, the software giant will provide $4 million in
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September 2, 2010 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
Battles between charities and the watchdog groups that help donors decide where to give escalated last week when a major trade association released drafts of two reports by scholars who say the watchdogs may do more harm than good.
The studies, paid for and released by the Direct
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