Corporate Giving

How Big Business Can Help Small Nonprofits Survive Tough Times

Drew Madsen | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Nonprofits, Recession, Nonprofit Grants, Corporate Giving, Giving to Charity, Nonprofit Financing, Charity, Impact News
Drew Madsen

Seven-in-eight nonprofits report they face increased demand for services this year, but 57 percent say they only have enough cash at one time to sustain their own operations for three months or less.

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Monday Morning Motivation

Angela Perkey | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Service, Customer Service, Personal Motivation, Giving to Charity, Donating to Charity, Charity, Monday Motivation, Employer Giving, Corporate Giving, Donations, Employee Giving, Motivation at Work, Impact News
Angela Perkey

Have you ever felt less than motivated to go to work? For the vast majority of us, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Causecast Makes It Easy for Companies to Give Back

Auren Kaplan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Causecast, Employee Impact Platform, Corporate Philanthropy, Causecast-Giveaway, Corporate Giving, Causecast Corporations, Impact News
Auren Kaplan

Just as consumers have come to expect brands to support causes, employees now expect their companies to engage them in serious and meaningful ways around the causes they care about.

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Why Companies Aren't Just Writing Checks To Charities Anymore

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Mastercard, Hp, Video, Charity, Patricia Devereux, Corporate Charity, Executive Giving, Corporate Donations, Corporate Giving, Forbes Insight, Impact News

Charitable giving is up, but executives aren't just throwing money at causes anymore. They're focusing on engaging their employees in volunteerism, a ...

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Would You Buy Ordinary Gum Just Because It Supports a Cause?

Joe Waters | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Cause Products, Cause Marketing, Project 7 Cause, Corporate Giving, Ethical Shopping, Project 7 Giving, Project 7 Gum, Charity Shopping, Project 7 Charity, Impact News
Joe Waters

Everyone points to Newman's Own as proof that "cause products" such as Project 7 gum can be a big success. But that's like believing your organization can have its own national telethon because Jerry Lewis had one.

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Increasing Transparency to Galvanize Impact

Akhtar Badshah | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Microsoft, Corporate Philantropy, Business Philathropy, Corporate Giving, Impact News
Akhtar Badshah

We hope you can joins us for this exciting conference in a field that is growing in scale and is building value in companies, communities, and economies.

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Empowering Corporate Leaders to Fix the Economy

Aaron Hurst | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Corporate Giving, Trickle Down Economics, Tax Breaks, Csr, Impact News
Aaron Hurst

We need to reward long-term value and wealth creation and not quarterly earnings.

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Corporate Charitable Giving To Stay Flat In 2011

The Chronicle of Philanthropy | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Corporate Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Corporate Giving, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Corporate Charity, Charity, Impact News

Charitable giving by America's biggest companies will probably be flat in 2011, after a sharp rebound in 2010, according to a Chronicle survey of 180 ...

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Corporation Culture Wars

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Blake Mycoskie Corporate, Corporate Giving, Business, Blake Mycoskie Corporate Giving, Focus on the Family, Corporate-Giving-Ban, Blake Mycoskie, Blake Mycoskie Giving, Religion News

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) When you buy a pair of shoes, a spicy chicken sandwich, or a gym membership, does that mean you en...

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Starbucks, HandsOn Network Host Global Month of Service

Cliff Burrows | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Corporate Giving, Corporate Social Responsibility, Nonprofit Partnership Charity, Csr, Corporate Community Service, Handson Network, Impact News
Cliff Burrows

With service events around the world, our goal is to reach 200,000 hours of service from our partners and customers in 30 days.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Is Good For Businesses

Reena De Asis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Philanthropy, Social Issues, Nonprofits, Cause Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Giving, Csr, Social Economy, Impact News
Reena De Asis

Ideally, innovative corporations would increasingly function beyond the short-term profit motive and pay greater attention to their impact on the social economy.

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Poll: People Are Giving Less To Charities (And Don't Feel Bad About It)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harris Poll, Donations, Charitable Giving, Social Networking, Corporate Giving, Economy, Impact News

The percentage of people who won't be making charitable donations this year has doubled to 12 percent -- up from 6 percent in 2009 -- according a rece...

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Corporate Giving Plunge: 60 Percent Of Businesses Donate Less In 2009

The Chronicle of Philanthropy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donating to Charity, Corporate Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Corporate Giving, Charity, Corporate Charity, Impact News

A majority of big companies cut their giving in 2009, according to a study released Wednesday by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, in ...

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New Leader In Political Giving

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honeywell, Political Giving, Political Donations, Honeywell Donations, Corporate Donations, Corporate Giving, Center for Responsive Politics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, David Cote, Politics News

Amid this year's heated debate over corporate campaign cash, the top donor to House and Senate campaigns is a company that was an also-ran in politica...

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Billions for Charity, But Not One Cent for Taxes!

Kelly Kleiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Gates, Governance, Irs, International, Charity, Nonprofits, Nonprofit, Corporate Giving, Politics, Philanthropy, Not for Profit, Relations With Funders, Advocacy, Global Women's Issues, 501c3, Donors, Billionaire, Philanthrocapitalism, Fundraising, Foundations, Gates Pledge, Politics News
Kelly Kleiman

Even the best-intentioned best-directed private donations are a way for moneyed people to work their will on the public, while the rest of us have nothing but the vote.

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Bookwallah Gives Books to the Orphans of the World

James M. Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Charity, Libraries, Books, Orphans, G. Riley Mills, Corporate Giving, Not for Profits, Nonprofits, Bookwallah, Impact News
James M. Lynch

Bookwallah's sole mission is to collect and distribute children's storybooks, set up libraries, and spread the joy of reading to children of orphanages and children's homes throughout the world.

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Public/Private Partnerships and the President's National AIDS Policy

Nancy Mahon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Dc-Aids-Administration, Hiv, Pepfar, Corporate Giving, Office of National AIDS Policy, Csr, Aids, Barack Obama, Impact News
Nancy Mahon

This May, President Obama's Office of National AIDS Policy held a meeting to discuss how to tackle the U.S. epidemic. What made this meeting different from past iterations was the diverse group of people in attendance.

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A Different Kind of Water Torture

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better World Campaign, Bbc, Charity, Health, Water, The Giving Life, Cambodia, Corporate Giving, International, Foundations, The Fight for Clean Water, Preventable Deaths, Clean Water, Politics News
John Sauer

Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.

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