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  • Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?

    21 Feb 2012 5:55 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    This chart shows the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs, through Jan. 31. Some corporations are affiliated with individual donors, such as the Contran Corporation, which is owned by Harold Simmons. Some donors, such as Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Yasmin and Oren Lukatz, and Sivan Ochshorn gave individually but are all members of a single family. Hover over each super PAC's name to see the total raised by its top ten donors, and hover over each donor to see how much they gave:

    http://projects.propublica.org/pactrack/contributions/tree
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  • ING Merger Foes Want Bank Philanthropy Standards

    21 Feb 2012 5:53 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    Two days after the Federal Reserve Board approved Capital One Financial Corp.'s $9 billion purchase of Netherlands-based ING Groep NV's U.S. online banking division, an advocacy group is calling for tougher standards for considering a banking organization's charitable donations toward its compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act and with new public interest requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.

    http://www.thedeal.com/content/regulatory/ing-merger-foes-want-bank-philanthropy-standards.php
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  • OP-ED: Better Ways To Give It Away: Philanthropy 2.0

    21 Feb 2012 12:22 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    As the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation recently discovered, mixing mission and politics can cost an organization both credibility and dollars. Susan G. Komen, dedicated to the least controversial cause imaginable, eradicating breast cancer, lost the support of many core donors over its (since reversed) decision to end its relationship with Planned Parenthood, a national organization that provides women’s health care, family planning, and, incidentally, abortion services.


    http://www.fastcompany.com/1817692/better-ways-to-give-it-away-philanthropy-20

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  • How Companies Learn Your Secrets

    21 Feb 2012 9:55 AM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that?"

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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  • BLOG: Metrics in Prospect Research

    20 Feb 2012 11:50 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    When I was a major gifts officer, I was given goals so that my vice president could measure multiple levels of my effectiveness.  One measure of course was dollars raised, but other metrics were number of face-to-face visits with individual prospects, number of proposals submitted, number of prospects moved from one category to another (from cultivation to solicitation).  But I am asked often how long should it take to research and confirm a prospect?

    http://www.prospectresearch.com/prospect-research/metrics-in-prospect-research.htm
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  • BLOG: What is the Current State of Grantseeking? Arts, Culture, & Humanities...

    20 Feb 2012 11:48 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    Despite many challenges, nonprofits retain a sense of optimism about the next six months according to the survey results cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011). And it gets particularly interesting when you start looking at the responses from arts, culture, and humanities groups.

    http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive/2012/01/23/arts-culture-amp-humanities-what-is-the-current-state-of-grantseeking.aspx
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  • Colleges and Universities Raise $30.3 Billion in 2011

    15 Feb 2012 7:36 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    Charitable contributions to colleges and universities in the United States increased 8.2 percent in 2011, reaching $30.30 billion, according to results of the annual Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey. The findings were released today by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).
    Adjusted for inflation, giving increased 4.8 percent.

    http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2012/02/15/colleges.pdf
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  • America's Most Affluent Neighborhoods

    15 Feb 2012 7:34 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    We derived America’s wealthiest locales from the Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey, released in December 2011, which measures median household income as of the end of 2010. The survey breaks down the country into more than 29,000 cities, towns, villages and what the Census Bureau calls CDPs (Census Designated Place – a small area within a larger town or city with no local government of its own but which otherwise resembles a town).

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2012/02/13/americas-most-affluent-neighborhoods/
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  • IRS Makes Finding Charity Status Easier

    15 Feb 2012 12:24 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)

    The Internal Revenue Service has developed an online database of 400,000 nonprofits that have lost their tax-exempt status for failing to file tax returns.Previously, the IRS released information about groups that had lost their tax-exempt status only by state, which made it difficult to find groups by other criteria. The new Exempt Organizations Select Check is updated monthly and is on the same Web page as the agency’s main database of all nonprofits that can accept tax-deductible donations.


    http://philanthropy.com/blogs/government-and-politics/irs-makes-finding-charity-status-easier/30142

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  • OP-ED: Obama’s Continued War on Philanthropy

    15 Feb 2012 12:02 PM | Tara McMullen (Administrator)
    Lost amid the debate about the budget put forward by the White House yesterday was a provision that continues the administration’s war on philanthropy. Obama’s call for dangerous cuts in defense spending he says he will spend on infrastructure at home got most of the headlines. But the budget also called for limiting itemized deductions, a measure that could have a grievous impact on philanthropies that are more desperate for funds than ever in a shrinking economy.

    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/14/obama-war-on-philanthropy-charitable-giving/
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