Archives: 06/2011


June 28, 2011 | AUTHOR: Andrea Rush

In a down economy, individual donors keep innovative research alive

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Several years before she passed away, Marian S. Ware and her family set up a $6 million program at the University of Pennsylvania to help fund cutting-edge clinical research on drug discovery and patient care related to Alzheimer’s Disease. This program continued with a second large gift recommended by the Ware family to NPT.  And its impact is described in a recent Penn Gazette article titled “Untangling Alzheimer’s.”

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June 27, 2011 | AUTHOR:

What do the new Giving USA statistics mean for donor-advised funds?

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Last week, when Giving USA released its annual statistical report on charitable giving, it was hard to ignore the impact of donor-advised funds. One of the most significant numbers in the report is the 6.2% increase in public-society benefit organizations. Giving USA attributed this increase to “the growth in giving of appreciated assets to donor-advised funds, especially from high-net-worth donors who see advantages of giving to these funds over giving to private foundations.”

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