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Wise Giving Wednesday: Matching Gifts Should Match

If a child, who already has a bicycle, asks his/her parents for a new flashy model, they might prompt the child to help make that happen: “If you save enough for a third of the cost of the new bike, we’
Apr 26, 2017
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Wise Giving Wednesday: If You Don’t Want Charities to Call

Many charities raise funds using telemarketing and do so responsibly, but there are others that some donors find annoying for a variety of reasons including the timing and frequency of the phone appeals
Apr 20, 2017
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Charity Under the Big Top – Circus Fundraising Events

Earlier this year, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus announced their closing after 146 years and are now in their final performances ending sometime in May. Falling ticket sales, criticism fro
Apr 12, 2017
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Change for Charities – Rounding Up Your Register Bill

On a daily basis, most of us receive charitable appeals of some kind but an increasingly popular one is the request to round up your bill at the supermarket or other store register and agree to donate y
Apr 05, 2017
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Charitable Weddings

With the start of spring and warmer weather also comes thoughts of weddings and other planned happy events. As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on March 17, 2017, however, one 24-year old you
Mar 29, 2017
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Fighting Future Fundraising Fraud

Yesterday in Washington, DC, the Federal Trade Commission held its first charity conference: Give & Take: Consumers, Contributions and Charity. Both Bennett Weiner (BBB WGA’s Chief Operating O
Mar 23, 2017