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The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest-Shrinking Nation

Italy’s population of elder Italians is soaring as its birthrate plummets, putting the country at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the “silver tsunami.”

Strategic planning

How do you plan effectively during these unsettling times? Comprehensive Prospect Research (CPR) has helped more than 3,000 clients raise over $300 billion. Some of our friends, like the Maryland Food Bank, use CPR to diversify their funding sources as demand for services surges. Other partners like Make-A-Wish value CPR’s helping them ask higher. We also help institutions like Yale Law School complete large campaigns.

As we learn to live with COVID, the global workforce is being reshaped. A war in Europe rages, financial markets are in tumult, and inflation is at historic highs. The U.S. may currently be in a recession. Economists rarely agree on anything and even if they do, it’s typically 1½ years after a downturn has occurred. While the Federal Reserve keeps aggressively raising interest rates, most aren’t calling a bottom to the market.

Any one of these factors alone presents a great challenge. Taken together, they’re overwhelming. All of this impacts U.S. private philanthropy. But let’s keep things in perspective. During the last recession of 2009, Americans still gave $300 billion. By 2021, that figure had grown to nearly $470 billion. This is the time to make your plans. Will you be left behind or engage CPR strategically?

CPR sets fundraising records by diversifying our clients’ boards, ensuring they know who their board knows and by verifying wealth screenings. Our team of analysts includes attorneys who can unpack complex structures such as DAFs and CRTs. We also help manage risk on reputational matters, via comprehensive background checks. Would you like to reach goal 25% faster than planned, save up 50% annually, and exceed your goals? Your secret weapon awaits.

Blackbaud sued for data breach

Blackbaud has been roundly criticized for perceived delays in its response to the attack. The company says it acted as quickly as it could.

For better results: Diversify!

If your organization needs to diversify than CPR can help. Since 1994, we've helped top institutions set records through diversification. Our 2,000 clients have raise $300 billion +. Contact us today for a free consultation.
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Tim Halpern MCs CITYarts virtual Gala

Tim Halpern will be hosting as MC a fundraiser for a great NYC non-profit, CITYarts, which helps children paint murals in New York-particularly SoHo. Among the prized possessions we’ll be auctioning off, art work by Christo.
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Covid Emergency Response-in kind donation

We at CPR are thinking of you. CPR hopes and prays that you, your family and colleagues remain safe and sound...
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Colleagues Become Confidants in the Age of Coronavirus

With millions of people stressed out and working from home, mental health takes center stage...
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Knowing your research sources are important: How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online

Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets...
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Giving USA 2019 : Americans gave $427.71 billion to charity in 2018 amid complex year for charitable giving

Amid a complex climate for charitable giving, American individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $427.71 billion to U.S. charities in 2018, according to Giving USA 2019: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2018. Total charitable giving rose 0.7% measured in current dollars over the revised total of $424.74 billion contributed in 2017. Adjusted for inflation, total giving declined 1.7%...
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Industry leader celebrates 25 years in business

I founded CPR in 1994 and I’m inspired as we gratefully celebrate our 25th year in business. We hope to see you at Fundraising Day in New York City next Friday, June 14. Whereas most non-profits turn over staff every 18 months, CPR’s typical client engagement lasts decades. CPR strategically leads the field by helping: over 2,000 clients raise in excess of $300 billion, a top hospital raise $1.5 billion, and two top schools close $100+ million campaigns in record time, beating their previously held campaigns, on which CPR had also partnered. We also recruit Fortune 100 CEOs to be honored at galas, at which our clients double the size of their events in just a few years.Our best business practices consistently deliver return on investment. During the dawn of a new era, the pace of change will rapidly increase. CPR will be there with you every step of the way. There’s no greater innovation than caring.

There's a reason why we saved our clients $500 million + and helped them raise more than $100 billion. "Outsourcing" isn't a dirty word. It's great business!

The list of the world’s largest employers was once dominated by household names like Ford Motor Co., J.C. Penney Co., and General Electric Co., companies that made and sold things. A new analysis conducted for The Wall Street Journal shows those names are nowhere to be found on that list today. In their place are large outsourcing companies like Compass Group PLC, Accenture PLC and other businesses that essentially lease workers to clients...
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Charity Officials Are Increasingly Receiving Million-Dollar Paydays

About 2,700 people had seven-figure pay packages at the nonprofits in 2014, a number that was up a third in three years, newly searchable IRS data show...
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CEO Gives Back

For Giving Tuesday 2016, Eagle Scout Tim Halpern led his son’s Cub Scout Troup in a volunteer food drive effort...
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Video: CEO Tim Halpern leading a major gifts panel on June 17th 2016

CEO Tim Halpern to lead a major gifts panel on June 17th 2016

Why do we feel we’re always building our major gifts portfolio? Because we are! Construction never ends. A prospect list is never final. It must evolve. Whether you’re just starting a prospect list or replenishing one, there are proven strategies to help ensure your pipeline overflows with top prospects...
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Legal Fees Cross New Mark: $1,500 an Hour

The day of the $1,500-an-hour lawyer has arrived. Partners at some of the nation’s top law firms are approaching—and, in a few cases, surpassing—that watershed billing rate, making the $1,000-an-hour legal fees that once seemed so steep look quaint by comparison...
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Why This Market Meltdown Isn’t a Repeat of 2008

The end isn’t nigh. Yes, there are losses, and big ones, as financial markets on Friday extended a brutal selloff that has ricocheted around the world since the year’s start. The carnage has become so pronounced it has engendered fears of a replay of the 2008 global financial crisis...
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New York City Property Values Surge

New York has become a trillion-dollar city, according to city tax assessors.

New preliminary tax rolls released Friday show that with rising values for both residential and commercial properties, the total market value of taxable property rose to $1.072 trillion for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a 10.6% increase from the $969.4 billion reported this year...

IRS Reverses Course on Controversial Donor-Data Proposal

The Internal Revenue Service today withdrew a controversial proposed regulation that would have given nonprofits the option to report donors’ private information to the agency.

Charitable Giving in U.S. Continues to Rise

Mirroring growth in the domestic economy, charitable giving by Americans rose to a record $358.38 billion last year, surpassing a previous high of $355.17 billion in 2007, according to a closely watched annual report...
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The Surprising Relationship Between Taxes and Charitable Giving

When it comes to charitable giving, it’s well known that taxes matter. The promise of a big deduction is a great way to get people to open their checkbooks.

Charities Ended 2011 on High Note

Several major charities ended 2011 on a high, with some nonprofits conducting record-breaking holiday-season campaigns. Fund-raisers said the early numbers could signal a continued bounce-back for charitable giving this year after falling in 2008 and 2009 from its prerecession peak...
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Metropolitan Opera Donations Hit $182 Million

In the warren of Met administrative offices, the people who run one of the world’s busiest opera houses had something to applaud: a record amount of contributions for the fiscal year that ended in July. According to preliminary figures released for the first time, the Met hauled in $182 million, an astonishing amount in a tough economic climate and 50 percent more than it raised just the year before...

U.S. charitable giving shows modest uptick in 2010 following two years of declines

CHICAGO (June 20, 2011) – Giving USA Foundation™ and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, today announced that total charitable contributions from American individuals, corporations and foundations were an estimated $290.89 billion in 2010, up from a revised estimate of $280.30 billion for 2009. The 2010 estimate represents growth of 3.8 percent in current dollars and 2.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars...
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U.S. charitable giving falls 3.6 percent in 2009 to $303.75 billion

CHICAGO—Charitable giving fell by 3.6 percent last year as Americans continued to struggle with the recession, though some philanthropic experts feared the decrease could have been much worse given the economic downturn, according to an authoritative annual survey released Wednesday...
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U.S. charitable giving estimated at $307.65 billion in 2008

Charitable giving in the United States exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row in 2008, according to Giving USA 2009. Donations to charitable causes in the United States reached an estimated $307.65 billion in 2008, a 2 percent drop in current dollars over 2007.

Family Charities Get Focused

When Charlie Brink sold his stock in Mona Vie, a beverage company that he co-founded in 2005, he wanted to use $5 million from his windfall to fund his family's charity work. But when the family launched the Brink Family Foundation, "everyone in the family had their ideas," of where to direct the funds, but there is "only so much our dollars can do in these economic conditions," he says. So the family decided to focus their giving with a formal mission statement directed toward two areas: access to education and their hometown of Tampa, Fla.

When Rosenwald Asks, The Wealthy Can't Say No

He swears that in the half-century since his mother pressed a single, tiny mustard seed into his hand, not a day has gone by that he has not touched that ancient symbol of faith and good fortune.