Employee Engagement and Workplace Giving: Trends and Opportunities

“Align your workplace giving programs with your employee engagement programs,” says Scott Black, America’s Charities Director of Field Operation – Northern US. This statement was the overall theme and the thread that brought the 2011 Membership Assembly at Georgetown University to a close on Tuesday, May 10. Black lead a discussion with Kristy Hensel, Director,…

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Charting Impact: Common Impact Reporting

This is a guest post by Bob Ottenhoff, CEO of Guidestar, which has partnered with BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Independent Sector to launchCharting Impact. There has been a long-standing debate among nonprofits and those that benefit from nonprofits’ goods and services about how to measure nonprofit effectiveness. It seems every organization has a different…

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Drug Companies Drive 2010 Corporate Giving

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK — Drug companies helped drive an almost 18 percent increase in corporate philanthropy last year as they gave away medicine to poor Americans still struggling in a rough economy, a survey found on Thursday. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy poll of 110 companies found they gave $13 billion in cash…

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