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The impact of state budget cuts on homeless programs is evident on the calendar pages inside Larry Beasely’s personal planner. Last year, full hours were blocked off and highlighted for one-on-one assessments that Beasely, a case manager, conducted with people staying at the Salvation Army’s emergency shelter in Fort Worth. This year, each line is [...]
The news this week that October’s IRS Discount Rate will drop to 1.4%, the lowest rate ever, puts downward pressure on our ability to market gift annuities and charitable remainder annuity trust gifts because of the slide in the charitable deduction available.The good news, however, is that this historic combination of the lowest discount rate [...]
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leaders restarted budget talks Tuesday for the first time since Minnesota’s government shut down five days earlier, but with no progress to speak of the focus shifted from the Capitol to a courtroom where reci…
Federal employees will soon be allowed to serve in their official capacities in nonprofit organizations.Tuesday marked the end of a comment period on a proposed rule from the Office of Government Ethics that would lift a 15-year prohibition on federal …
African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to engage with and learn about social issues and causes through social media than their white counterparts, a new study from Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication and Ogilvy Publi…
Philanthropy as we know it has been uniquely American and has deep societal roots that allow people to support others in ways that market forces and other mechanisms sometimes miss. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized almost two centuries ago that Americans seemed uniquely supportive of each other, despite our frontier spirit. And, the rest of the [...]
A new survey shows community foundations are continuing to recover from the economic downturn. Assets rose last year, as did the amount community foundations gave away to local causes and the sums they raised from donors.The survey of more than 250 com…
Giving by Britain’s 100 biggest donors dropped by 33 percent last year.The country’s top 100 philanthropists gave away about $2.73-billion in the 2009-10 fiscal year, compared with almost $4.1-billion in 2008-09.However, the top 30 donors gave away…
Data from the new 2011 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, published by the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity (CGP), confirm that for the first full year of the global recession private giving to the developing world has remaine…
As cities and towns attempt to patch budget holes caused by shrinking state support and tax revenues, several municipalities have started a new round of campaigns targeting property-tax-exempt colleges and other nonprofits, demanding that these institu…
