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Meet the #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium Panelists: Tom Watson, President & Founder of CauseWired
Tweet #GivingUnderTheInfluence Register Now! Click here. On April 24th, America’s Charities is hosting #GivingUnderTheInfluence, a symposium focused on key trends, solutions, and strategies shaping the…
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How a Pair of Used Jeans Helped a Single Mom Find a Job
Tweet #charityrocks Rachal Underwood, a single mother of a two-year-old, found herself unable to gain employment a few years ago. Not…
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Register for the April 24th #GivingUnderTheInfluence Symposium in D.C.
How Digital Culture is Driving the Next Generation of Employee Engagement What inspires employees to give and engage with charitable causes? How can companies balance…
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Why Can’t We Sell Charity Like We Sell Perfume?
It’s time to change how society thinks about charity and social reform. The donating public is obsessed with restrictions—nonprofits shouldn’t pay executives too much, or…
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Is Goodwill the Most Important Social Enterprise in 2013?
Source: Giovanni Rodriguez, Forbes.com As the email signature of many Goodwill Industries staffers says, “Every 38 seconds of every business day, a person served by…
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What’s Changed About Workplace Giving? Not What You’d Expect
By Steve Greenhalgh For several months, I have been conducting research for a new study commissioned by America’s Charities called, Snapshot: Trends and Strategies to…
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How Could Congress Save More Than $1 Billion Per Year?
On March 1, 2013, an automatic spending cut called “sequestration” went into effect, requiring mandatory across-the-board budget cuts to many government programs. While it’s still…
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Credit Unions for Kids Raises Record $10.1 Million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Credit Unions for Kids, a collaborative effort in the credit union community that raises funds for children’s hospitals, recently announced that it raised a record…
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Do Nonprofits Need to Master “Medium Data” Before Tackling Big Data?
Tweet Every day humanity adds approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data to our collective store of knowledge. Looking over this treasure trove, scientists, financiers, and…
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City of Orlando Employees Raise More Than $450,000 for Central Florida Charities through Workplace Giving Campaign
Orlando, FL (March 7, 2013) – Thanks to the generosity of City of Orlando employees, Mayor Buddy Dyer and City Commissioners made check presentations at…
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The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for…
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