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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens

NonProfit Quarterly

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. While children are increasingly involved in school-based fundraising, this is often framed as the haves giving to the have-nots.

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Equitable Prospecting Helps Expand Donor Support

The NonProfit Times

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. The requests come by mail. The suggested donation is just $100. Ill tell you half a dozen stories like that, Zumaya said.

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What Donors Do After A Disaster

Lets Talk Nonprofit

Before Harvey hit, many nonprofits were in the midst of planning their year-end fundraising campaigns. Source: Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs and a Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies at the Lilly Family Center for Philanthropy at Indiana University, via CNN ). WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE?