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Tweet By Lucy Bernholz “It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place,” observed one of the great philanthropists of the 20th century, Andrew Carnegie. Today, with almost two million nonprofits in the U.S., the challenge of knowing which to support and which to avoid is more…

The Travelers Championship, Connecticut’s only PGA TOUR event, has announced that the 2013 tournament generated $1,253,000 for 180 charities throughout the region. This is the largest annual amount the tournament has given since Travelers became title sponsor in 2007, helped in part by 2013 winner Ken Duke who made a personal donation of $25,000 during closing ceremonies in…

Tweet Tax-exempt status has helped create the more general philanthropic or “non-profit” sector. This includes those above, legally designated 501(c)3 organizations, as well as civic groups or advocacy organizations (501(c)4), labor organizations (501(c)6) and 26 – 26! – other varieties of tax-exempt organizations. Yet the idea of a coherent nonprofit sector is more recent still:…

TMCF provides scholarships and connects students with jobs. OFC helps launch entrepreneurs By Christine HeinrichsSenior Contributing Editor The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has been providing scholarships and job placement help to students at public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) for almost thirty years. Now TMCF has extended its programs to help innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs. In…

In more than half of the states in this country, there is no state law preventing someone from being fired just for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. And with leaders in the House refusing to act on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, urgency is rising to help LGBT people facing everyday job discrimination. We can’t…

Junior Achievement (JA) has released their 2012-2013 Annual Report.  Below is a message from JA President and CEO, Jack Kosakowski, along with a link to discover the impact JA has had this year thanks to donor support: “In the past year, Junior Achievement inspired more than 4.4 million youth across our nation with a message of…

By Alex Daniels The more important religion is to a person, the more likely that person is to give to a charity of any kind, according to new research released by Connected to Give. Among Americans who claim a religious affiliation, the study said, 65 percent give to charity. Among those who do not identify…

If the surprise of this year’s Black Friday was a sag in sales, the surprise of #GivingTuesday was the jump in engagement around philanthropy. We didn’t quite see lines of people camping outside nonprofits the night before, waiting to give (though one very funny parody video claimed we did), but we did see some positive…

In the 1970s, the life expectancy for someone with Marfan syndrome was in the 40s. Less than thirty years later, due to early diagnosis, new medications, and advances in surgery, the life expectancy for people with Marfan syndrome was in the 70s, nearing the life expectancy of the general population. In the past decade, research…

A new study in the scientific journal Tobacco Control provides powerful new evidence that graphic warning labels on cigarette packs are effective in reducing smoking rates. The study also finds that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vastly underestimated the impact that proposed graphic warnings would have in reducing smoking in the United States.…

The housing crisis sounded all kinds of alarms for policymakers and the public about what happens when families can’t afford their homes, or when they lose the stability that a secure home provides. We’ve heard about the effects of foreclosures on neighborhoods, the weight of housing stress on human health, the impact of lost equity on…

Recently PerformWell and Leap of Reason hosted “After the Leap”, a two-day conference dedicated to outcomes measurement, performance management and organizational change. Experts in performance management shared their hard-won successes with leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors to help advance the field. See all of the Showcase Organizations that were a key to the…