About 1 in 20 taxpayers may fill out this part of their returns beginning with the 2018 tax year.
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The lost incentives to give are likely to make a bigger difference than the small uptick in economic growth expected from the new law.
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Wealth managers are playing an increasing role in determining what social causes are funded and how.
Some telemarketers retain nearly all of the charitable dollars they solicit.
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For-profit fundraisers often keep more of the money they collect on behalf of nonprofits than they should but Ohio’s attorney general is accusing a charity of serving as an accomplice to a crime.
What really is the art of gratitude?
Joanne Morton
Why you might be getting gratitude all wrong.
To mark its 30th anniversary in business, the national PetSmart chain is donating enough food to serve animals in need an estimated 60 million meals.
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Ever wondered which fundraising appeals work best or what kind of charitable donations are ideal after disasters strike?
Changes to the tax code may strike a blow to the charitable world.
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Giving could decline by $21 billion or more per year.
A toy truck left at a tombstone in a Montreal cemetery.
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The ritual might seem strange, but a sociologist spent eight years studying it – and found that there really is a therapeutic benefit.
Sometimes a gift that might seem reasonable is no nicer than a stocking full of coal.
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Sadly, people sometimes deliberately give bad presents.
Whether charitable giving functions like a market is part of a broader and complex debate within the sector.
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Donors play a critical role supporting Australian charities, but we should not attribute them with more knowledge than they actually have.
President Barack Obama, right, meeting with leaders of large Jewish organizations in 2011.
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Theology and history help explain why US Jews give more to charity than people who observe other religions or are not religious at all.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, leads a round of applause after his colleagues took a step toward changing the tax code.
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More than US$20 billion per year in giving is potentially at stake.
Academic research and coursework on giving and volunteering are growing more popular.
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After taking a class in which they give money away, students get more interested in donating to and volunteering at local nonprofits.
Charitable donors may share some common traits.
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Donors who support charitable causes have a ‘taste’ for giving, researchers found.
That looks like a good match.
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Nonprofit fundraisers have long relied on matching funds to encourage giving without knowing if they work. Research suggests one way to make the most out of challenge gifts from big donors.
Show me the money.
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Beauty makes us give generously.
When rain from Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston and surrounding areas, some people were more eager to volunteer than others.
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Caring about someone you have never met, this new brain research suggests, may have a lot in common with caring about the people you love.
Wasteful and fake charities are usually harder to spot than this.
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Digital innovations are making it easier to give to charity and for donors to become informed before they support nonprofits.
Federal workers based in and near Washington, D.C. raised a total of US$46,639,949.63 in 2015 through the Combined Federal Campaign of National Capital Area.
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By some measures, Americans are giving less to charity through their jobs than they used to. But many companies say that increasing this kind of charity is a priority for them.
Taxing inherited wealth builds in an incentive for the rich to give more and splurge less.
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Taxing inherited wealth doesn’t just generate revenue for the government. It encourages philanthropy.
The Girard, Kansas Carnegie library.
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One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation and abroad is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.