Although far fewer Americans took the charitable deduction on their tax returns, giving stayed fairly steady, according to the annual Giving USA report.
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Young children should be given a bigger role in deciding which charities their schools and families support.
Melbourne and Sydney are members of 100 Resilient CIties, which the Rockefeller Foundation has said it will no longer fund. So what has the global network achieved? And what can we learn from this?
As the debate over what ails philanthropy heats up, the questions are going beyond whether massive charitable donations help or hurt society.
Some, like Melinda Gates and Priscilla Chan, became affluent through marriage. Others, like Oprah Winfrey, earned fortunes on their own.
Those who don’t give often face less media scrutiny.
Congress can fix this by updating the tax code.
It’s not necessarily because of Islamophobia.
Australia is about to witness the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in our history, but giving through bequests in wills is currently low.
The White House proposed these cuts for three years in a row. That clashes with longstanding bipartisan leadership regarding rights for all people with disabilities.
Charity law is quite strict when it comes to giving back donations that have already been made.
There are limits to what charities can do now about past donors who are accused of morally reprehensible behavior.
New systems with stricter rules would make it easier to hold colleges and universities accountable on behalf of the taxpayers who support them.
There is no system in place to detect charitable fraud on the scale allegedly committed by a counseling company and its sham nonprofit.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to get schools to adopt a “high-quality” curriculum. But the effort will constrain teachers and stifle creativity, an education scholar argues.
Memberships, subscriptions and small donations are reducing reliance on big grants, but mainly for the outlets that were already flourishing.
When the only fixes getting funded are designed to leave the status quo intact, the results of philanthropy inevitably fall short.
A New York judge will decide whether Trump owes more than $2.8 million in restitution.
Around this time of the year, the Salvation Army’s red kettles become visible as part of holiday giving. How this British evangelical organization came to the US is interesting history.
Donor premiums are a common fundraising tactic. But recent research suggests that they are not cost-effective.
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Glenn Family Chair Emeritus of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
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Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University
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Adjunct Associate Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and UNESCO Chairholder in AI Ethics & Governance, IE University
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Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
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Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent
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Professor of Management, University of St Andrews
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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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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University