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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

And this is becoming a growing movement: According to the Johnson Center, participation rates in giving circles have more than doubled every five years since 2001. Women have a unique opportunity to use their position to advance philanthropy and impact to tackle the pressing problems affecting human and planetary health. What is our purpose?

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The Advantages of Asymmetric Information

ProposalPRO

Or an advantage to experienced proposers. What is it? Asymmetric information refers to the information one organization may have that gives it an advantage over another. America’s free-market economy works when everyone has access to the same set of relevant information about market conditions , i.e., symmetrical information.

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Football, Fumbled Estate Planning, and a $45 Million Tax Bill

Planned Giving

A Bad Defensive Line Section 2001 of the United States Tax Code mandates that estates with assets in excess of $2 million must pay federal taxes on that excess, at rates that can reach up to 46 percent! Our story starts in Florida with Joseph Robbie, an attorney, successful businessman, and huge sports fan.

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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

Available online at www.givingusa.org [2] ibid [3] “Nonprofit History’s New Numbers (and the Need for More)”, Sage Publications, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2001 [4] Independent Sector ([link] [5] The Burk Donor Survey…Where Philanthropy Is Headed in 2021, Penelope Burk, Cygnus Applied Research, Inc., million [4].

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Compensation in the new age: findings from Candid’s 2022 Nonprofit Compensation Report

Candid

Published since 2001, this report continues to be the only large-scale analysis of its kind based entirely on IRS data, not surveys. A key aspect of recruiting talent is being transparent and doing your due diligence to solidify compensation for specific roles. Conclusion .

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

2001, Abdoul et al. Among the issues raised with the current review system is that there aren’t enough reviewers empaneled to provide statistical precision (Kaplan, et al., 2008), and that there is too much variability in how reviewers score the same information (Mayo et al., 2006, Graves et al., What other options are there?

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. Since 2001, OvidiuRo's team has grown from 8 people to 20 staff members and 404 volunteers in local teams. How It All Began: Helping Poor Kids Attend School.