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The charitable deduction vanished for the 30 million taxpayers who stopped itemizing in 2018, the year the tax changes took effect.
Generating financial returns, noble and important as that goal is, is no longer enough, 3 scholars of marketing argue.
Giving cruddy clothing, furniture and other useless stuff to a charity does it no favors, since it costs money to get rid of damaged goods. The power of peer pressure could help alleviate this problem.
Because smartphones can make people focus more on their personal needs, it can be harder to persuade their users to donate on them than it is when someone sees an appeal on their PC.
Most people are left refreshing the page and coming up empty-handed.
Grants from foundations are gradually growing as a share of all the donations Americans make.
By relying heavily on privately run organizations to deliver social services, the government employs fewer people, reducing the size of its bureaucracy. But these partnerships can flounder.
Paying the caregivers of people with disabilities more would improve care while increasing economic growth, a research team found.
Boasting about centering your transformative systems change paradigm means you’re doing it wrong. But fixes are available.
During the month-long period of fasting, the obligation of zakat takes on heightened significance.
Researchers who analyzed a decade of data detected a reduction in giving after millions of Americans stopped getting a tax break tied to charitable giving.
Mexican groups are the most common, but immigrants from Turkey, Bolivia and many more countries have formed their own.
Middle-class consumers and shoppers of color give the most this way.
Donors and grantmakers often pressure nonprofits to spend as little as possible on fundraising and overhead.
Two economists calculated that the Paycheck Protection Program saved more than 450,000 nonprofit jobs in the first six months after the pandemic was declared.
A nationally representative survey found that the share of nonprofits aware of their right to support or oppose legislation has fallen by more than half in the past 20 years.
Emphasizing self-sufficiency in fundraising pitches can increase charitable donations, a marketing scholar has found.
Donors’ sentiments expressed on Twitter became more cheerful before they made a gift to support Wikipedia, researchers found.
Giving receded as many Americans saw their purchasing power decline, straining household budgets.
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Associated Director of Data Partnerships at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Director of Research, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Managing Editor, Giving USA, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
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Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Director of Research, Women's Philanthropy Institute, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
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Research Associate of Philanthropy, Women's Philanthropy Institute; Doctoral student of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor & Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Economics, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Researcher of Experimental Economics, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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