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NEDRA Industry News Blog

Welcome to NEDRA's Industry News blog, where we feature news articles and other items of interest to the research community, curated by the NEDRA News Editor-In-Chief. We hope these selections will be of interest to you - and encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!

NOTE: Please note that any content or opinions expressed within this page represent the opinions and viewpoint of the original author, and do not necessarily reflect or represent the opinions, endorsement, or viewpoint of NEDRA.


  • How Long Can The Art Market Walk On Water?

    Wed, July 11, 2012 1:36 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The wealth of the super-rich is keeping the miracle going, but mostly for the best works.

    http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/How-long-can-the-art-market-walk-on-water?/26752

  • The Wealth Gap and Upward Mobility

    Wed, July 11, 2012 1:35 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    A controversial new finding nicknamed the Great Gatsby Curve makes the strongest case yet that inequality and mobility are intertwined.

    http://images.businessweek.com/photos/2012-07-05/the-wealth-gap-and-upward-mobility#slide1

  • Where the Money Lives

    Tue, July 10, 2012 6:32 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    For all Mitt Romney’s touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow the very wealthy to skirt tax laws, and investigating just how much of Romney’s fortune (with $30 million in Bain Capital funds in the Cayman Islands alone?) looks pretty strange for a presidential candidate.

    www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts

  • Soliciting the Solicitors

    Tue, July 10, 2012 6:31 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    "It’ll just take a few minutes!” I plead with the young woman in a Human Rights Campaign T-shirt who had been flagging down tourists in Washington’s Dupont Circle. This is supposed to be her line. And it isn’t working.

    http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/07/soliciting-solicitors/2515/

  • Giving Corporate Donors a Menu of Gift Options

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:32 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Even though corporate giving has dropped by more than 5 percent since 2006, according to “Giving USA,” some charities are still doing well by courting business support.

    http://philanthropy.com/article/Giving-Corporate-Donors-a-Menu/132525/

  • T. Boone Pickens’s $165-Million Gift Gives Alma Mater Headaches

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:32 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens’s $165-million gift to Oklahoma State University sports seven years ago, and his subsequent involvement in the athletic department’s financial moves, have created significant problems for his alma mater, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/t-boone-pickenss-165-million-causes-headaches-for-alma-mater/50043

  • What Downturn? Ask India’s Super-Rich

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:30 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The ranks of India’s super-rich – defined by having a minimum average net worth of 250 million rupees ($5.6 million) over the past 10 years – are estimated to have grown by 30% to around 81,000 in 2011-12, according to a new study.

    blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/07/04/downturn-what-downturn-ask-indias-super-rich/

  • Brazil Government Salaries Disclosed

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:30 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    In May President Dilma Rousseff passed the Lei de Acesso à Informação (Access to Information Act) and on Friday, June 29th, the new Transparency Portal was reported to have published the wages of approximately 700,000 civil servants of the executive branch of Brazil’s government.

    riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/front-page/brazil-goverment-salaries-disclosed/

  • Irish Government Backs Plans To Boost Charitable Giving By 60%

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:28 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The Irish government has backed plans presented by the Forum on Philanthropy to increase the level of philanthropic and charitable giving along with developing fundraising capacity and best practice.

    http://www.fundraising.co.uk/ireland/news/2012/07/09/irish-government-backs-plans-boost-charitable-giving-60

  • Powerful Women in Philanthropy

    Tue, July 10, 2012 12:27 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    Philanthropy, literally "a love of humankind," is about giving for the benefit of others. Do women have a unique capacity for philanthropic action? Do they practice philanthropy differently than men?

    http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/bank-of-america/archive/2012/07/powerful-women-in-philanthropy/259311

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