The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ackerman is the studys primary author. associate dean for Research and International Programs and Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies. Ackerman said that additional research is needed to understand why job loss was associated with declining donor rates for single women but not for other groups.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock When Amy Neugebauers third-grader son came home from school one day, he ran upstairs to raid his piggy bank for an American Heart Association fundraiser. My intention was never to start a nonprofit. Neugebauer wondered why he was so excited. The response was telling: You get the free T-shirt.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Hes very brown, very Mexican-looking, and owns a funny-sounding company, said Armando Enrique Zumaya, founder of Somos El Poder, an Alameda, California-based consultancy that advises Latino nonprofits on fundraising. Were under 2 percent [on nonprofit boards] in the country, and overwhelmingly those folks are tokens.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Before Harvey hit, many nonprofits were in the midst of planning their year-end fundraising campaigns. Are you one of those nonprofits? In studies on giving in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, to the tsunami in Southeast Asia [in 2004] and to Hurricane Katrina [in 2005], the average gift was between $125 and $135.

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