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CCP Board of Director's Meeting
"Giving Done Right" Book Group Discussion
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Multiple Funding Opportunities from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Local Nonprofit Columbus House Named 2018 Bank of America Neighborhood Builder®
Connecticut Will Kick-off 2020 U.S. Census on Dec. 11
$67,000 Awarded for Northwest Corner Critical Needs
CT Philanthropy Digest - December 2018
People's United Community Foundation Awards $318K in Grants to CT Nonprofits
Comcast Foundation Awards Grants to Connecticut Organizations
Liberty Bank Foundation Approves $241,500 in Grants
Liberty Bank, Rotary Clubs Raise Record $426,607 to Help Fill Thanksgiving Food Baskets
Liberty Bank Honors Jennifer Height for Volunteerism
The Broad View Fund Awards Grant to Innovative Collaboration
American Savings Foundation Announces New Community Grants Program
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Announces New 2019 Board Chair, Officers & Members
Give Everyone the Same Tax Incentive to Donate — Not Just the Rich
WASHINGTON, DC -- The consumer orgies of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday have a rapidly growing nonprofit rival: Giving Tuesday, which celebrates its seventh year today. Begun by a coalition hoping to reinvigorate giving in the United States during the holiday season, Giving Tuesday has turned into a philanthropic juggernaut: Last year, the day moved at least $300 million to nonprofits by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people, many of them infrequent donors, to give to charities of their choosing. Giving Tuesday champions the welcome spirit of ordinary donors and the amazing diversity of American charity. But when it comes to philanthropic giving in the United States, it proves the exception to a stubborn rule.
The Problem With Charitable Giving
NEW YORK, NY -- Starting this fall, and well into the future, medical students at New York University will get free tuition. In a few years, shiny new facilities will welcome cancer patients in Atlanta and brain researchers at Stanford. The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the bill: American taxpayers. Like most charitable giving, health care philanthropy is tax-deductible. When wealthy people give away millions of dollars, their tax bills go down. But that leaves the rest of us either to pick up the slack or go without the investments that our government could have made with those funds.