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Giving USA 2008 study highlights
If giving makes you happy, why don’t people give more? I recently encountered an interesting answer to this question, thanks to Stanford University’s Center for Social Innovation. Last fall, Stanford marketing professor Jennifer Aaker published a podcast and related journal article about people’s mindsets toward giving. Her team’s research and experiments showed that asking people [...]
The University of Pennsylvania's Center for High Impact Philanthropy launched a three-month project to help donors find high-impact giving opportunities during the downturn. The first article provides the following ideas: Support and expand community health centers Get the word out on legitimate foreclosure prevention programs Support organizations and collaboratives that break down silos between different government-supported [...]
Tony Macklin 