The team from Charity Navigator, the nation's largest independent charity evaluator and leading donor advocate, shares their thoughts on emerging nonprofit-sector issues and offers tips to better inform your intelligent giving decisions.
Support Our Troops If you are passionate about helping veterans, injured military personnel and their families, then consult our list of military-related charities before you write a check.
Black Friday. Cyber Monday. #GivingTuesday! #GivingTuesday is a simple idea. All you need to do is find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to join in acts of giving. Then tell everyone you can about what you are doing and why it matters. As a 501 (c) (3) organization itself, Charity Navigator depends on public support to help donors make informed choices. Please consider investing in the future of Charity Navigator by making a donation today. Donate now >>
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Charity Navigator!
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Thanksgiving to New Year's is the biggest time of year for charitable giving. If you are among the millions of Americans who plan to give this holiday season, then be sure to follow our 5 steps to ensure you make the most of your year-end giving.
Top 5 Tips For Maximizing Year-End Donations
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For
many of us, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year. From decorating,
to shopping, to visiting friends and family, our “to-do” lists runneth over. It
is also the time of year we feel most altruistic and motivated to give back. So
how are you supposed to find the time to find a worthy cause to support?
Never
fear, Charity Navigator is here with a new, updated app designed to take the hassle
out of holiday donating.
Make the most of your time while on the road
to grandma’s house or while waiting on line at the store and use our app to quickly identify
highly-rated charities that match your philanthropic interest. Now you really
have no excuse not to do your research to ensure the charities you support this
year-end are on the ‘nice’ and not the ‘naughty’ list.
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Of all the festivities associated with the winter holidays, the one thing many people look forward to most is the big holiday meal. Whether it’s turkey on Thanksgiving, a Christmas ham, or a pot roast at a Hanukah dinner, food is indelibly intertwined with our holiday celebrations. Before you donate to a charity promising to provide holiday meals, check out our three tips to ensure that most of your donation is covering the cost of a meal programs and not the expensive advertisements used to promote these programs. As a 501 (c) (3) organization itself, Charity Navigator depends on public support to help donors make informed choices. Please consider investing in the future of Charity Navigator by making a donation today. Donate now >>
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Year-end giving will be in full swing in just a few weeks. And a recent article in The Des Moines Register did a good job explaining the benefits of donating appreciated assets. The article sums it up with the following example:
Let's say Scott is in the 25 percent federal tax bracket and has $5,000 in appreciated stock he wants to donate. If he sells the stock and donates the proceeds from the sale, he will only end up donating $4,250. The other $750 is used to pay long-term capital-gains taxes at the 15 percent rate. Plus, even though Scott sold $5,000 worth of stock, he can only deduct $4,250.
Instead, if Scott donates the shares directly to the charity, there are no capital-gains taxes, and he can deduct the full $5,000. Even better, the charity will not have to pay any capital-gains taxes when it sells the donated stock.
Visit our site for more information about the Tax Benefits of Giving. As a 501 (c) (3) organization itself, Charity Navigator depends on public support to help donors make informed choices. Please consider investing in the future of Charity Navigator by making a donation today. Donate now >>
Fox 4 in Kansas City recently ran this segment about a 'charity,' called Carshelpingvets.org, that spends the vast majority of what it takes in on running its operations... not on veterans in need. Sadly, just as the leader of this organization points out in the segment, it isn't unusual for a car donation charity to be woefully inefficient. So, before you donate your car, check out our tips to ensure your gift enriches a charity and not the middleman.
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