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.
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.
It’s easier to appear destined for greatness on the drawing board than in real life.
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To learn why some new nonprofits prosper when others do not requires dealing with the fact that everyone has trouble remembering things the way they happened.
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.
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.
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.
If a House provision gets enacted, churches will be able to endorse – not just pray for – political candidates.
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A provision in the House’s pending tax bill would let religious and secular nonprofits engage in political speech without facing a penalty.
Being one of a series of disasters made relief in Puerto Rico harder to come by after Hurricane Maria.
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Charitable giving and government aid can shortchange disasters that follow other disasters.
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.
The Ballarat Road project in Maidstone and Footscray, Melbourne, will transform vacant land into housing for people at risk of homelessness.
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An innovative collaboration between government, a non-profit group and philanthropists has found a way to provide urgently needed housing on land that would otherwise be left vacant for years.
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.
Members of the tea party movement seen rallying outside the Capitol in 2013.
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The tax agency singled out both conservative and liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny.
Filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, shown attending a concert to raise money for the Robin Hood Foundation in 2013.
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Offering money as a form of atonement is easier for the movie mogul than finding someone who will accept it.
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.
Actress Jennifer Garner, a Save the Children trustee and ambassador, helped distribute supplies after Hurricane Harvey.
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After a hurricane strikes or an earthquake makes shockwaves, support nonprofits that are clear about what they do and how they will spend your money.