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Stuck in America’s struggling small towns

by Gracy Olmstead / Forum

Stuck in America’s struggling small towns

BY Gracy Olmstead

When it comes to being poor in America, geography is still destiny.

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Should your major donors receive direct mail?

BY Spencer Kashmanian

Three simple ways to make direct mail suitable for high net worth individuals.

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How the new estate tax rules could reduce charitable giving by billions

BY Patrick Rooney

Philanthropists give for many different reasons, but bequests could decline by about $7 billion a year.

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The dark side of big-scale aid

BY Martin Morse Wooster

What happens when giant nonprofits, headed by highly compensated experts, helicopter in to developing nations…

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College costs too much? Then stop demanding more regulations.

BY Jeff Polet

Regulations apply tremendous pressure on colleges and other nonprofits, increasing their costs while altering their missions. Students and parents are the ones who pay for it.

4 factors that can make affordable housing not so affordable

BY Kea Wilson

“Affordability” is about far more than just the price of rent.

Some new nonprofits take off, others flop, and nobody knows why

BY Freidrik O. Andersson

It’s easier to appear destined for greatness on the drawing board than in real life.

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Rebuilding trust in the media from the bottom up

BY Michael Gordon

A new report looks at the ways social entrepreneurs are transforming journalism by creating media organizations that gain trust by being local and transparent.

Trouble ahead for charities depending on clothes donations

BY Martin Morse Wooster

A centuries-old income stream for social enterprises has dried up.

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from around the web

Mark Zuckerberg says his company has a social mission. Here’s one way to prove it… read more

Can localism restore sanity to U.S. politics?… read more

Zuckerberg to create commission to study social media’s impact on democracy, funded by several major foundations of diverse political leanings, from the Hewlett Foundation to the Charles Koch Foundation… read more

Andrew Carnegie built 1,700 public libraries, but at least 47 towns refused the steel baron’s money. Mainly because they didn’t want to accept the terms of the gift: committing tax money to upkeep… read more

An interview with Martin Morse Wooster on his latest book on donor intent, How Great Philanthropists Failed and You Can Succeed at Protecting Your Legacy… read more

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