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The Best Charities for You

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Savvy Donors Do Good Well

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Savvy Donor Resources

We’ve rounded up a bunch of our favorite resources for you to use. Click for the resource list . . .

What's a Strong Charity?

It’s a charity the meets each of the nine prerequisites spelled out in our new Savvy Donors guide. Read more . . .

End-of-Life Care

We all deserve peace at the end of life. But that’s not the end-of-life experience for many in our communities. Many die in hospitals and skilled nursing homes — medical facilities where peace can be hard to find. Learn how to do better for yourself or a person you love . . .

Care Planning for Peace

Will someone keep you alive against your wishes? I hope not. We all deserve peace at the end of life. Care planning can help assure that we find that peace. Learn more about planning you can do now . . .

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What’s a Strong Charity?

The Best Charities for You – guide now available

Fight the flood of charity mail and email

Do one or more of these express how you feel about the charity mail or email you receive? (more…)

Mileage rates for 2024

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2024 optional standard mileage rates. They're used to calculate the deductible costs of...

The 99 Highest Revenue Nonprofits

Here’s our list of the 99 nonprofits with the highest revenues as they’ve reported to the IRS (United States Internal...

The 99 Wealthiest Nonprofits

Here's our list of the 99 wealthiest nonprofits based on the book value of total assets they report to the...

IRS warns of scammers using fake charities to exploit taxpayers

Fake charities a year-round plagueWhether tying themselves to a prominent cause or preying on compassion related to a natural disaster,...

Mileage rates for 2023

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2023 optional standard mileage rates. They're used to calculate the deductible costs of...

Protect your year-end donation deductions — a Q&A

Question #1: You use your credit card to donate to a qualified charity on December 31 this year. You don't...

Tax-free IRA donations are Smart!

Give and Grin. If you are age 70½ (70.5) or older you can donate from your IRA directly to the...

Together we can UP charity services by $36 billion a year

Individuals (that's you, me, our friends, our neighbors) donate more than $366 billion to charities a year (direct giving (including...

IRS warns that some crowdfunding money may be taxable to the recipient

From the IRS: Crowdfunding is a popular way to raise money online. People often use crowdfunding to fundraise for a...

IRS reminds us all to donate carefully after disasters to avoid scams

From the IRS: After an emergency or disaster, people rally to help victims by donating money. Unfortunately, this can give...

We’re on our own checking charities – one scammer creates 76 IRS-approved fakes

As I remind you in The Best Charities for You, it's up to donors to evaluate charities. Although most charities...