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3 takeaways from Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott teaming up...

Tessa Skidmore, IUPUI and Jacqueline Ackerman, IUPUI Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, two of the biggest U.S. donors,...

What is unrestricted funding? Two philanthropy experts explain

Genevieve Shaker, IUPUI and Pamala Wiepking, IUPUI Unrestricted funds are grants or donations nonprofits get to spend any way...

What’s the charitable deduction? An economist explains

Patrick Rooney, IUPUI The charitable deduction is a dollar-for-dollar reduction in taxable income that lowers what someone owes the...

Giving food pantry clients choices – and gently nudging them toward...

Caitlin Caspi, University of Connecticut and Marlene B. Schwartz, University of Connecticut Food banks and pantries across the U.S....

How New York’s 19th-century Jews turned Purim into an American party

Zev Eleff, Touro College Purim, which falls this year on Feb. 26, ranks among Judaism’s most joyous holidays.

5 ways MacKenzie Scott’s $5.8 billion commitment to social and economic...

Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on Dec. 15 that she had given almost US$4.2 billion to hundreds of...

How a flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872...

Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a...

Opportunities to practice real-life philanthropy bring academic benefits

Kajsa Larson, Northern Kentucky University and Mark A. Neikirk, Northern Kentucky University A crisis shelter for battered women. A nonprofit that provides wigs and makeup...

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