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Nonprofits See Some Relief In New Federal Budget Deal

A federal budget compromise reached this week will bring some sense of normalcy back to the federal budget process as nonprofit leaders gear up to make their case for federal funding, potentially...

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Year-End Giving Yields Increases for Many Nonprofits

The crucial year-end giving season appears to be producing big increases in donations for many charities. In a spot check of 20 charities, all but one said they were raising more during the last...

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Atlas of Giving Estimates U.S. Charity Jumped 13% in 2013

Preliminary figures show that 2013 may have been the biggest year ever for charitable donations, according to a Dallas-based group that mines economic data to come up with its numbers. More Americans...

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Educational Endowments’ Investment Returns Improved in FY13

The endowments of 835 U.S. colleges and universities returned an average of 11.7 percent, net of fees, in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2013, up significantly from the previous year’s return of...

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Gifts Surge From Rich U.S. Donors

America’s most generous donors are ditching the caution that marked so much of their giving as the economy stalled and are roaring back with a bevy of multimillion-dollar contributions to colleges,...

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Contributions to Colleges Rose Nearly 10% Last Year

Record giving to higher education is back, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education. America’s colleges and universities took in $33.8-billion in charitable...

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25 Years of Declining State Support for Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education has put together an interactive tool that allows users to explore how state and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue at more than 600 four-year...

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Charities Predict Increases in Giving After Strong 2013

Seven out of 10 nonprofits expect donations to increase this year, and 13 percent expect their gains to be substantial—growing by at least 15 percent, according to a survey of 538 charities to be...

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U. of North Texas Offers Fixed-Rate Tuition, With a Twist

Many colleges have fixed-rate tuition plans that lock in a student’s course costs for four years. In Texas that kind of policy is now a requirement for public colleges and universities. But not all...

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Jack Ma’s Establishment of a New Charitable Foundation Offers His Country an...

“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth,” wrote Andrew Carnegie in 1889. More than a century later, the citizens of supposedly Communist China could hardly disagree. Carnegie,...

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Hospital Mergers in the New York Area Bring Cost Fears

Hospital takeovers are surging in the New York region, raising concerns that health costs could climb and care could change. In New York state, at least a dozen hospitals, many of them financially...

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Expect Another Down Year for Tuition Revenue, Moody’s Says

Colleges and universities—well, many of them, at least—are cash-starved beasts, increasingly reliant on tuition and fees to make ends meet. So this report, the credit-rating agency’s fifth annual...

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Study Suggests Recession, Recovery Have Not Left The Rich Richer

The Great Recession exacted a huge toll on people in every income group, and recovering from it has been a long and grueling process. To some economists, the recovery has exacerbated the very real...

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The Kids Are Alright as U.S. Job, Wage Gains Reach Millennials

The kids just might be alright. America’s young adults are finally showing signs of regaining their economic footing after being bogged down for more than five years following the worst recession since...

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Wall Street Has Its Eyes on Millennials’ $30 Trillion Inheritance

There have been any number of pieces written about how the millennial generation is consciously refusing to do things that preceding generations thought were perfectly reasonable, such as playing golf...

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Inside The 2015 Forbes Billionaires List

Despite plunging oil prices and a weakened euro, the ranks of the world’s wealthiest defied global economic turmoil and expanded yet again. For our 29th annual guide to the globe’s richest, we found a...

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U.N. Report: Governments Failing to Harness Volunteer Power

While more than 1 billion people donate their time for causes worldwide, many governments are not tapping the potential of volunteers to boost development efforts and effect change on issues ranging...

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Fidelity Charitable Donations Increase 33 Percent for First Half of 2015

Fidelity Investments’ nonprofit arm reported Wednesday that its grants to charities were up 33 percent for the first half of 2015. Fidelity Charitable made $1.5 billion in contributions through its...

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Food Banks Struggle to Meet Surprising Demand

Food banks across the country are seeing a rising demand for free groceries despite the growing economy, leading some charities to reduce the amount of food they offer each family. U.S. food banks are...

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Donors Can Now Contribute Bitcoin to Fidelity Charitable® to Fund Philanthropy

Donors can now use bitcoin to support charities with Fidelity Charitable®, which expands the existing array of assets donors can contribute to their donor-advised funds to fuel their philanthropy....

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