Philanthropy

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AFP eWire February 25, 2008	Corporate Giving Increases, But Road Ahead Uncertain A recent report shows that charitable giving by major U.S. corporations and corporate foundations to charities increased, but what do the numbers and trends mean for charities in the near future?
AFP eWire February 25, 2008	Volunteering Grows, But Giving Money Still Considered Easier The percentage of Americans who volunteer is growing, but the majority say that giving money is easier.
AFP eWire February 25, 2008	Fidelity Gift Funds Attracts, Grants Record Amounts The Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the fourth largest public charity and the largest donor-advised fund program in the United States, attracted record contributions and granted the largest amount in its history last year.
HRO Today Jan/Feb 2008 Andy Teng	Viewing Corporate Compassion Through a Photographer's Lens In capturing portraits of the homeless, ACS Learning Services' Lynn Blodgett demonstrates that not all CEOs' interests end with a dollar sign.
AFP eWire February 19, 2008	Charity Fraud Less Than One Percent of All 2007 Complaints While public concerns remain high, charity fraud ranked twentieth on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) list of complaints in 2007.
AFP eWire February 19, 2008	Majority of Americans Believe Nonprofit Overhead Unreasonable Sixty-two percent of Americans believe the typical nonprofit organization spends more than what is reasonable on overhead expenses such as administration and fundraising.
AFP eWire February 19, 2008	Responding to the Federal Tax Rebate Just 4 percent of people surveyed in a recent poll said they plan to use their federal tax rebate to support a charitable cause, but fundraisers shouldn't just ignore the upcoming opportunity.
AFP eWire February 19, 2008	Nonprofit Postage Rates to Increase in May Nonprofit mail rates are expected to increase by an average of 0.7 percent starting on May 12.
AFP eWire February 11, 2008	IRS Warns Charities of Email Scam The Internal Revenue Service is warning charities of a new scam involving an email directed towards charitable organizations that informs them they are eligible for a tax refund.
AFP eWire February 11, 2008	California Considering Diversity Disclosure for Foundations The California Assembly has passed legislation that would require foundations with more than $250 million in assets to disclose ethnic, gender and sexual orientation information about their boards of directors and their grant and contract recipients.
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