Joseph Smith encouraged early Latter-day Saints to pool their resources. Two centuries later, one of the results is an investment portfolio estimated at $100 billion.
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The National Rifle Association is spending heavily on legal fees and slashing programs for its members.
Communal meals to break fast can mean lots of single-use plastics. A switch to environmentally friendly principles is in line with Islamic principles through the ages.
Emphasizing threats to children is a well-worn refrain among those worried about the decline of American culture and values.
This particularly physical kind of philanthropy caught on in the mid-20th century.
A study of more than 200 social services and arts groups points to the severity of structural barriers.
The drugmaker’s move responded to the growing competition that has shaken up the insulin market in recent years.
About 1.5 million refugees are still there, with some putting down roots.
A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Food, shelter and medical supplies are important but not the only things that help people get back on their feet.
A scholar of the laws governing tax-exempt groups explains why trustees showed James O'Keefe the door and what the consequences might be if their concerns prove to be accurate.
More than 41 million people rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to buy their groceries. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the program ramped up.
As giving receded to pre-pandemic levels, most of these gifts were designated for foundations, higher education, hospitals and medical research.
Indian American donors will have an opportunity to collectively fund improvements in education, health care and gender equality in India on March 2, 2023.
After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.
The term, coined in 2011, refers to people who seek to use their money and time to make as much progress as possible toward solving the world’s most pressing problems.
A longtime critic of Atlanta’s BeltLine explains how the popular network of parks has increased inequality in the city and driven out lower-income residents.
A little more than 1 in 10 Americans can’t get enough to eat – around the same share of the country that was experiencing food insecurity before the COVID-19 pandemic.
When a fake charity is uncovered, headlines abound with details of the fraud, while donors are eager to make sure they weren’t one of the victims of the scheme.
The hefty sums many billionaires give away place them in an age-old debate about wealth and charity – and whether it’s appropriate for donors to have a say over their wealth from the grave.
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Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Glenn Family Chair Emeritus of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
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Associated Director of Data Partnerships at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership, Seattle University
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Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor & Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, Indiana 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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Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago
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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management, Indiana University
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Associate Director of Research, Indiana University 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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Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, University of Florida
