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The Current System is Broken: Bringing Hunger Relief Home for the Summer
By Kevin Hagan It’s summertime, and with summer break comes the laughter of carefree children in many neighborhoods… But not all of them. When the…
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What’s Black, White and Endangered?
With roughly 1,600 panda bears left in the wild and fewer than 400 in captivity, these animals need help to survive. Morris Animal Foundation has…
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20 Years of AmeriCorps – Why Young People Serve
AmeriCorps turns 20 in September,and who better to talk about its beginnings than its co-founder, President Bill Clinton? Even though some of us at the…
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It’s Mission, Programs, Services For Employee Giving
Workplace giving funnels about $4 billion into nonprofit coffers each year. But as evidenced by the nearly one-fifth decline in the federal employee Combined Federal…
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Snapshot 2014: How Are Nonprofits Responding to Rising Expectations of Corporate and Individual Donors?
By Lynne D. Filderman and Steve Greenhalgh (This post was originally featured in CSRwire’sCSRwire Talkbackblog series.) Having just released the latest research on employee engagement…
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The World Cup Helps Wish Kids Open New Chapters in Their Lives
The sport goes by many names. In some countries, it’s soccer. In others, it’s some variation on “football.” In Italy, they call it il calcio…
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The Drone Memo Cometh
By Jameel Jaffer In response to consolidated lawsuits filed by the ACLU andTheNew York Times, the Second Circuit recently ordered the Obama administration to disclose…
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Inspiration from 17-year-old Special Olympics Athlete With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Whitney and her family live in Lebanon, Tennessee. Because of TSC, Whitney has non-cancerous tumors in her brain, kidneys and eye, and developmental delays. No…
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Why Mid-Sized Businesses Should Prioritize Corporate Philanthropy
By Ryan Scott Mid-sized businesses – often defined as organizations with 100 to 5000 employees – comprise 26% of U.S. businesses, according to the Midmarket…
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SPLC Helps Student Get Second Chance at Education
By Jennifer Coco, SPLC Staff Attorney This past May, I received a phone call that left me fighting back tears of joy. On the other…
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Thank You for Supporting the D.C. Metro Community Through Do More 24
Update: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Do More 24 day of giving event. Thanks to you, just over $1 million was raised…
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How Do we Scale Social Change?
By Nell Edgington This week I attended the5th annual Social Impact Exchange Conferencein New York City. It was an interesting gathering of funders, change makersand…
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