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Leah Henck from Freedom Firm USA
Leah Henck is the President of Freedom Firm USA. After she completed her MBA from Regent University in 2008, she joined her husband, an attorney, in India in 2009. Together they spent the next 7 years serving with Freedom Firm to end child sex trafficking in India. Upon returning to the U.S., Leah continued to…
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Total 2023 Giving Shows Decline From Previous Year
Explore insights from the latest Giving USA: The Annual Report for Philanthropy. According to the report, total giving in 2023 reached $557.16 billion. While this marked a dollar increase from 2022, it reflects a decline in giving, when adjusted for inflation.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Creating Community
Explore insights from our recent Donor Participation program’s panel on “Creating Community.” The panel shared insights on how expanding charity involvement in communities might help reverse the decline in U.S. households contributing to charity.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Communicating Charity Impact Across Donor Segments
Explore insights from our recent Donor Participation program’s panel on “Communicating Charity Impact.” The panel shared successful strategies for segmenting donors, framing them as mission owners, emphasizing truth and transparency, and harnessing the power of a clear mission.
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Building Trust Video Series. Rick Lofgren, Children’s Organ Transplant Association
In this Building Trust Video series episode, we talk with Rick Lofgren, President and CEO of the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA). Read our full report on this BBB Accredited Charity Seal Holder here, https://bit.ly/3xl3KWr
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Alyson Niemann, Mindful Philanthropy
This week’s guest is Alyson Niemann, the Executive Director of Mindful Philanthropy. Mindful Philanthropy is dedicated to connecting funders and organizations in the mental health and substance abuse spaces, advocating for increased funding, and supporting impactful initiatives.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Keynote Presentation by CEO of GivingTuesday
Read about the keynote presentation by Asha Curan, CEO of GivingTuesday from our recent Donor Participation event. Asha talked about about how their innovative approach has grown GivingTuesday into a global movement that inspires millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. She explained that one of the engines of its success was that…
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Art Taylor, A Fresh Look at Collaboration
In this episode, our host and CEO of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Art Taylor, reviews an article that appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, entitled, “Hacking Nonprofit Collaboration.” Originally written in 2017, Art provides updates and his latest insights on the developments of collaboration in the non-profit sector since then.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Six Questions to Ask About Tornado Relief
Over the Memorial Day weekend, tornadoes and heavy storms hit Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kentucky leaving significant damage. Here are six questions to ask as you prepare to support the tornado and storm relief efforts.
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Dr. Aaron Bass
Art re-visits with Aaron Bass, CEO of EastSide Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware. During his tenure, EastSide has outperformed the state in growth on the state assessment. Aaron is re-thinking K-12 education for underprivileged children by also supporting their families and the larger community. Under his leadership, EastSide Charter School has been able to raise…
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Wise Giving Wednesday: The Need for Broader Support of Charities
Read about the panel from our recent Donor Participation event that talked about the need for a broader base of donors for charities at a time when the number of U.S. households that give to charities is declining.
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NoirUnited International
NoirUnited International co-founders, Macire Airbot and Nassim Ashford, rejoin Art to provide an update on their efforts to assist African college students displaced by the war in Ukraine. They also discuss upcoming Africa Day celebrations (May 25) and their new video docu-series which illustrates the profound challenges these students continue to face.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Is the Donor Participation Crisis an American or a Global Issue?
Read about the opening panel from our recent Donor Participation program that explored whether the declining number of households giving to charity is confined to the United States or whether it is a global phenomenon.
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Valerie Green
This week, our guest is dance artist, teacher, and healer Valerie Green, whose company Valerie Green/Dance Entropy (VG/DE) believes in humanizing movement, and planting creative seeds in communities across the world.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Charity Monitoring Worldwide
Watch a video of a conference about ICFO, an international association of charity monitoring organizations, and learn more about their work to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
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Ezra Vázquez-D’Amico and Jeremy Kirshbaum
In this week’s episode, our very own Ezra Vázquez-D’Amico and Jeremy Kirshbaum, CEO of Handshake, join us for an in-depth conversation about our groundbreaking new project – an AI-powered tool that’s set to alter the way donors make informed giving decisions.
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Highlights of Donor Participation Program
Highlights from our recent Donor Trust and Participation event held at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City.
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Tips on Donating for Oklahoma Tornado Relief
Give.org offers tips for those seeking to support relief efforts to help the victims of the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma.
