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Welcome to NEDRA's Industry News blog, where we feature news articles and other items of interest to the research community, curated by the NEDRA News Editor-In-Chief. We hope these selections will be of interest to you - and encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!

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  • College Endowments Lag in Socially Responsible Investing, Report Says

    Tue, July 24, 2012 12:57 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Colleges and universities, once pioneers in using their endowments to promote socially responsible investing, are no longer innovators when it comes to investing based on environmental, social, and corporate-governance goals, says a report published on Monday.

    http://chronicle.com/article/College-Endowments-Lag-in/133105/

  • Saving a Nest Egg for a Favorite Charity

    Tue, July 24, 2012 12:56 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The growing number of wealthy Asian families looking to combine estate planning with philanthropic giving has spurred private banks to look for more ways to enable their clients to fulfill their goals.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/business/global/saving-a-nest-egg-for-a-favorite-charity.html?_r=3

  • Home Prices Reach A Bottom: Zillow

    Tue, July 24, 2012 12:55 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    “After four months with rising home values and increasingly positive forecast data, it seems clear that the country has hit a bottom in home values,” Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries said in a news release. “The housing recovery is holding together despite lower-than-expected job growth, indicating that it has some organic strength of its own.”

    www.marketwatch.com/story/home-prices-reach-a-bottom-zillow-2012-07-24?

  • What Will Be The Impact Of 'Impact Investing'?

    Tue, July 24, 2012 12:54 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The philanthropic organizations and foundations that make up Washington’s massive nonprofit sector are borrowing lessons from the business plans of their for-profit counterparts as they look to fulfill social missions and achieve financial sustainability.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/for-the-nonprofit-sector-a-blending-of-mission-and-financial-sustainability/2012/07/13/gJQAQVAumW_story.html

  • Minority Report: Philanthropy's Diversity Deficit

    Tue, July 24, 2012 12:53 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    A quiet revolution is gathering pace across the British philanthropy landscape. Women and men from Black and minority ethnic communities (BME) are making strides to connect to causes and exercise their status in society; to give effectively and have a voice; to be decision-makers in a sector that historically has been dominated by White, middle-aged men.

    http://www.philanthropyuk.org/quarterly/articles/minority-report-philanthropys-diversity-deficit

  • Bucking Current Trends: A Large Grantmaker Makes a Surprising Decision

    Mon, July 23, 2012 11:04 AM | Tara McMullen-King
    The Annie E. Casey Foundation announced late last month that it intends to cease running its own service programs and instead give out $20 million more per year in grants to high-performing nonprofits.

    http://blog.ncrp.org/2012/07/bucking-current-trends-large-grantmaker.html

  • A Match Made in Digital Philanthropy

    Mon, July 23, 2012 11:03 AM | Tara McMullen-King
    Almost as quickly as Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 viral video hit 70 million views worldwide, criticism for the campaign’s shaky foundations as well as the charity’s controversial practices spread into popular media - even the New York Times ran an opinion feature debunking the issues of the campaign.

    http://www.techvibes.com/blog/a-match-made-in-digital-philanthropy-2012-07-20

  • University Funding: Philanthropy Steps In As The State Retreats

    Mon, July 23, 2012 11:01 AM | Tara McMullen-King

    Everyone knows that there are good debts and bad ones. We worry about running up hefty credit card bills but are sanguine about taking on immense debt to buy a flat. A student loan has to be the best kind of debt; the repayment is a small fraction of your income and in the unlikely event that you never earn more than £21,000, you won't have to pay back a penny. 


    www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/13/philanthropy-university-funding-michael-moritz-oxford

  • Alexander Soros Spills On What Its Like To Have A Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Father

    Mon, July 23, 2012 10:59 AM | Tara McMullen-King
    n the event that you've always wanted to know about the life of the son of one of the world's most legendary investors, turn your attention to the profile of Alexander Soros published by the New York Times this morning.

    www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-son-is-a-philanthropist-like-dad-2012-7

  • Are You a Knowledge Philanthropist? If Not, Why Not?

    Mon, July 23, 2012 10:58 AM | Tara McMullen-King
    “Knowledge philanthropist.” This is how Jack Herrick characterizes people who contribute to Wikipedia. The title is apt.

    http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/07/18/are-you-a-knowledge-philanthropist-if-not-why-not/

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