The history of volunteering in the U.S. is a long and generous one from helping out neighbors in barn raising two centuries ago to Habitat for Humanity and similar charities building homes today. And, o
Last month, a previous Wise Giving Wednesday blog addressed the issue of deducting donations at tax time and expressed charity concern that changes in the U.S. Tax Code in 2018 could impact giving this
On March 26th, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a press release announcing that it had shut down a telemarketing firm (Menacola Marketing) that was soliciting on behalf of the Na
As one of the founders of the annual GivingTuesday charity contribution campaign, Henry Timms is viewed as one of the nonprofit sector’s big thinkers. He has teamed up with Jeremy Heimans to write
There is an old Scottish proverb that says “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” Life is busy. Things to do. And many of us make our charity contributions during the last q
42 percent of nationally-soliciting charities that did not meet one or more of the BBB Standards for Charity Accountability in the past year either did not produce an annual report or had a report that