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The beautiful game still needs to perform on bigger social issues.
Charitable giving hit record levels in 2017.
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Total gifts from individual donors are rising, at least for now.
Can you choose not to?
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Your beliefs about free will can have a powerful effect on how you behave.
Great minds don’t always think alike.
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Thinking about philanthropy in a more complex way may help donors do more good.
Turns out some CEOs are genuinely out to make a difference.
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It’s easy to be cynical about charity drives like the Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Are they just PR stunts or can they make a difference beyond fundraising? Our study shows they can, and they do.
Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka and Donald Trump.
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The Donald J. Trump Foundation allegedly violated charitable norms and laws.
When Garth Brooks felt that a charity had done him wrong he got his money back.
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When conflicts over whether nonprofits have kept their word about how they said they’d use big gifts crop up, donors rarely get everything they demand as reimbursement.
Collecting donations.
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We should be more concerned about how school children are doing fundraising work.
Ed Sheeran in the Liberian capital Monrovia for Red Nose day 2017.
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Comic Relief is leading a major rethink in how charities portray poverty in Africa.
UK aid: a big spender.
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After a scandal involving Oxfam in Haiti, the UK government has threatened to withdraw aid money from the charity.
The more you like someone, the more optimistic you are for them.
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Study challenges our understanding of optimism as being a self-centered phenomenon.
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.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vows he will fight to protect his state from fallout from the new tax law.
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New York, California and other high-tax states are angling to use the charitable deduction and state payroll taxes as workarounds to shield both their residents and their revenue.
Getting aid to those who need it in Kenya.
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Even as incomes are squeezed, the British public continues to give more money to international NGOs than anyone else.
It seems loneliness among older people is expected – by everyone except the elderly themselves.
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Older people are less lonely than we think, but more importantly loneliness is something they face all year round – not just at Christmas.
The government has been criticised for its appointment of Gary Johns to head up Australia’s independent charities regulator.
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Australians have reason to be apprehensive that some civil voices are not being heard in our liberal democracy.
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.
Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance The Rapper, is donating millions of dollars through his SocialWorks charity to shore up Chicago’s public schools.
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Before you reach for that checkbook or give to a charity online, pause to think about what makes a cause good in the first place.
Charitable donors may share some common traits.
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Donors who support charitable causes have a ‘taste’ for giving, researchers found.