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A simple fundraising idea has given millions of people a place to sleep and a hot meal. The Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread Club has raised more than $100-million nationwide in the last 25 years by persuading people to give monthly. The charity asks donors to give at least $10 a month, or $120 for the year. [...]
NPR’s Car Talk and PBS’s Masterpiece Theater could soon become big fundraising boosters for the nation’s charities. The Federal Communications Commission is inviting comments on a proposal to allow public radio and television stations to raise money for any nonprofit. Now stations are solely allowed to raise money for their own programs and operations, in part because [...]
Joan Thompson has been at the helm of the Mayflower Retired & Senior Volunteer Program for more than 35 years, but even she concedes that the charity’s days may be numbered. The Massachusetts nonprofit, which connects older people to volunteer opportunities, saw a 20-percent cut in its grant from the Corporation for National and Community [...]
Charities that provide public services are increasingly reluctant to speak out against social injustice because they fear they will lose their funding, according to a report. The Independence Panel, a commission set up to monitor the voluntary sector as it grapples with huge cuts in public funding, said service provider charities that traditionally have also had an advocacy [...]
Employment in the voluntary sector has fallen by nearly 9% over the past year according to Skills – Third Sector’s analysis of the Labour Force Survey. Data recently released for the third quarter of 2011 shows the UK voluntary sector employs 723,000 people. This equates to a fall of 70,000 (8.7% of the workforce) over [...]
Lance Armstrong’s cancer foundation may lose up to $10 million in donations because of doping accusations against the seven-time Tour de France champion. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are investigating Armstrong’s possible drug involvement, ac…
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…
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has announced a $50 million challenge grant from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation in support of its efforts to reshape drug development for Parkinson’s disease.If the challenge, which will match all ne…
The Give Back Hollywood Foundation has announced the launch of the Hollywood Pledge, a new initiative to encourage celebrities to demonstrate their commitment to philanthropy.Inspired by the Giving Pledge campaign launched by Warren Buffett and Bill an…
EBay Founder Pierre Omidyar is known for the “venture philanthropy” of his Omidyar Network, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support micro-finance, governmental transparency, and social media in developing countries. Now he is also ve…
