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National Insights & Trends  
National Insights & Trends
Help on Foreclosures

While the current sub-prime crisis is making credit hard for most everyone to find, low-income ...


Proven Children's Charities Expand Their Reach

Look out Boy Scouts of America and 4-H -- there's a new breed of highly-successful youth ...


Market Volatility Calls for Long-Term Approach to Donating Securities

Donors waiting for just the right time to contribute their stocks to charity will be waiting a long ...


Microfinance's Appeal for Entrepreneurs

If you achieved affluence by building your own successful company, microfinance may provide you with ...


Issues That Matter
Theatre for Everybody?

At 8 A.M. yesterday morning, I found myself bleary-eyed in Central Park as I lined up to wait for ...


Google.org Invests in Innovation and Alternative Energy

In 2004, when Google.org hit the philanthopy stage, I believed that evenutally it would take over ...


Fundraising is War!

“Fundraising is war!” These words chilled the board members of a local nonprofit, as ...


Shameless Exploitation for the Common Good

So goes the company motto of Newman's Own. Most of us are aware that Newman's Own donates all ...


When Celebrities Give the Clothes Off Their Backs

A recent New York Times article sparked some interest in this young Hollywood cynic. It showcases ...


A laugh is worth a thousand words.

There are many aspects to gaining legitimacy online that seem to vary from the way things ...


Generation's Loss is Uhuru''s Gain

Those of us who have been following Jed Emerson's "blended value" work for the past several years ...


Global Youth Organizations Fight AIDS

Last week saw the 27th International Youth Conference in Mexico City. The Mexican Youth Force and ...


Peer Giving's Slow Climb to Sustainability

The latest edition of the Chronicle of Philanthropy provides an update on the philanthropic ...


Entrepreneurs Embrace Philanthropy: Just Do It!

Hail the entrepreneurial spirit! Not only in the outré world of the Silicon Valley do great minds ...


Are all Internets Good Internets?

A few weeks ago, I succumbed to a television spot and signed up for Al Gore's "We Can Solve It" ...


America's Dropout Crisis

America's Promise Alliance, warns that, "Before today ends, another 3,000 students will drop out ...


Climate Change Debate Irrelevant?

For me, a professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, the climate change debate is ...


40% of Bill Gates = More Brains, Clout and $

Now that Bill Gates has resigned from Microsoft, many wonder just how much time is he going to ...


Audiocast : Donor Strategies for the Environment

We made this audiocast in 2007, but it is even more relevant today. Now that market forces ...


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