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News to Use! What Fundraisers Can Expect from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Expiration

Gail Perry Group

This was followed by an expected dip in 2018's giving growth rate. With potential single-party control of government branches, we might see new tax reform fast-tracked. About $4 billion in donations were "re-timed" to beat the new law's implementation. Looking Ahead to 2025 and Beyond: Now, we're approaching another pivotal moment.

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A trajectory of trends in Advancing Human Rights  

Candid

The latest report, Advancing Human Rights: Annual Review of Global Foundation Grantmaking—2018 Key Findings, provides a new analysis of the human rights funding landscape. In the wake of recent events—a pandemic, worldwide protests, elections—2018 may feel like a world away. Key Findings . We documented $3.7

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). Stay tuned. Finally, please subscribe to my Fund the Change blog, below.

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The IRS and ‘Churches’ That Aren’t Really Churches

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

How the government can stop the IRS from treating advocacy groups with a “biblical worldview” like real churches By Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Uniformed members of Trail Life USA present the colors at the Family Research Council’s 2018 Values Voter Summit.

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Donors and “Marchers”: Build an Equitable Following With Major and Small Donors

Qgiv

She is a member of the governing board of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel, and belongs to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, and AASP, the Association for Advancement Services Professionals. That number dropped to 49.6

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Six things you may not know about the U.S. social sector

Candid

While nonprofits are perhaps most associated with the social sector, organizations within it can overlap with the spheres of business and government. Over the years, we’ve seen the lines between business, government, and the social sector blur. private and community foundations in 2018 and captured in Candid’s databases.

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What Are 7 Common Nonprofit Startup Costs?

GrantNews

“First, though there is no cost associated, you have to fill out the government form to receive an Employee Identification Number. If your fundraising goal is under $50,000, you would likely be eligible to file Form 1023-EZ (short form) at an approximate cost of $275 (as of 2018). This charitable registration fee varies by state.

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