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HSC & COMPANY'S REGULAR UPDATE

Issue 31: 23 February 2012

In this issue:

HSC & Company's New Website is Now Live!

LinkedIn's Skill-based Volunteer Marketplace

The Power of Stories in Social Change 

9 Ways Board Members Can Raise Money Without Fundraising

Giving by Family Foundations Recovering Slowly in the US

ATO Continues with Charitable Fundraising Regulation Reform

Playing at Philanthropy Could Grow a Giving Generation

Banks’ Philanthropy Needs Greater Oversight, Says Watchdog


Three UK Party Leaders Pledge to Give 10% of Their Estate to Charity

     
 
 
HSC & Company's New Website is Now Live!

In February HSC & Company, with the help of Inzen, launched its new website and you can now follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

View our new website here


   



 
 
 
LinkedIn’s Skill-based Volunteer Marketplace

It’s not just for landing your next job anymore. In the event of a natural disaster, LinkedIn has a new service--LinkedIn For Good--that will connect people in need with people with the skills to help them. It’s all part of their desire to increase volunteerism, and create social change with human capital.

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The Power of Stories in Social Change

Mark Horvath, founder of InvisiblePeople.tv, discusses how nonprofits with few resources can use video and other tools to spread the word about their work and the people they serve.

View the podcast here

     
 
 
 
9 Ways Board Members Can Raise Money Without Fundraising

Neil Edgington talks about the 9 things a fundraising-shy board members can be asked to do.

Learn more

 
     



 
 
Giving by US Family Foundations Recovering Slowly

According to a new report from the New York City-based Foundation Center, American family foundations contributed more than $20 billion in 2010 to organizations and people working for the public good.


Learn more

     



 
 
ATO Continues with Charitable Fundraising Regulation Reform

The government has released a discussion paper examining proposals for a new, nationally-consistent approach to laws that govern charitable fundraising. Interested parties are invited to comment on the discussion paper by 5 April 2012.

Learn more
 
     
 



  
Playing at Philanthropy Could Grow a Giving Generation

The campaign called Coins for Change encourages young people to think about other children in developing countries. Children from 191 countries took part in the campaign.

Learn more

 
     



 
Banks’ Philanthropy Needs Greater Oversight, Says Watchdog

The US Federal Government should scrutinize claims banks make about their charitable giving before approving their requests to merge, a watchdog group said in a new report today.

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Three UK Party Leaders Pledge to Give 10% of Their Estate to Charity

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have all committed to support Legacy10, a campaign to encourage people to give 10% of their estate to charity.

Learn more
 
     


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