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Is The Generosity Decline Real? What To Do!

Bloomerang

Philanthropy has been shrinking Here are the facts: There is still money coming in, but many fewer people are giving it. households now donate to charitable causes, a sharp decline from 65% in 2008. GoFundMe) or political contributions, rather than through established nonprofits. And the news is not good. Work together!

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

The report’s editor was Benjamin Soskis, senior research associate at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Aspen Institute. The rate of volunteerism, as measured by the Current Population Survey of the U.S. The report is targeted at a wide swath of America. “ Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

I think sometimes, when we talk about nonprofits and philanthropy, we get caught up in financial structures. I think that one of the unique aspects of this, we just brought an additional element, philanthropy. Are we saying philanthropy is separate from nonprofits? GoFundMe campaigns and the like.

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15 Fun Facts from the Giving USA 2016 Report

Lets Talk Nonprofit

The report was researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and it's published by. FUN FACT #1: Charitable contributions reached a new all-time high in 2015. FUN FACT #12: It's expected that the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund will soon take over the top spot as the largest U.S.