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Today’s Giving Magazine

Today’s Giving aims “to provide insight, inspiration, and knowledgeable guidance that will help maximize time and contributions from individuals, businesses, and agencies in order to meet giving goals.” Today’s Giving features content that will hold a mirror to the pressing issues facing our communities and offer transforming options through the stories of how others took action for real change. It will connect issues with constructive ideas for solving them through the giving resources available.

Our Readers

The readers of Today’s Giving magazine consist of a wide array of audiences based on the region’s population demographics, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. It will feature stories that focus on information sharing, innovation, types of philanthropy and general areas of giving from the following sectors:

Education, both K-12 and post secondary
Human Services
Health
Elderly Care
Culture and Diversity
Science, Research and Innovation
Religion and Faith
Arts, Humanities
Athlectics

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Every quarter, 17,500 copies of our magazine are distributed to communities throughout North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and Northeastern South Dakota.

Other News

Research & Reports
Q&A with Howard Dahl

Howard Dahl has a long heritage and broad experience in business leadership and community service. A native of Gwinner, N.D., he is currently president and CEO of Amity Technology, LLC, in Fargo and CEO of joint venture AGCO-Amity JV, LLC. He grew up in a family of visionaries as a grandson of E. G. Melroe, the founder of the Melroe Company, which developed the Bobcat Loader. After selling Concord, Inc.—the U.S. leader in Air Seeding equipment—to the Case IH corporation [...]
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Fund Raising Giving Research & Reports
Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA)

In April 2009, North Dakota adopted the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) to provide guidance and authority to charitable organizations on the management and investment of funds, as well as to impose additional duties on those who manage and invest charitable funds. These duties provide additional protection for charities and help ensure that contributions are used wisely. To help readers better understand the Act, this article outlines three main parts of the act: investment, spending, and modification [...]
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Giving Research & Reports
North Dakota Promotes Philanthropy Through Legislation

North Dakotans can take advantage of state income tax credits that few others in the United States can. Since 2005, state residents have been able to participate in income tax credits for planned gifts. In 2007 the state’s business donors were given the opportunity to qualify for tax credits based upon gifts to qualified endowment funds. Both opportunities are believed to exist in only a handful of other states including Montana, Iowa, and Kentucky, and are the result of legislation [...]
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Business & Community Research & Reports
5 Questions with Sen. Tim Flakoll

District 44 senator discusses public higher education in ND By Shannon Schweigert, Today’s Giving What are the primary sources of revenue funding North Dakota’s University System (NDUS)? Tuition and state appropriations have and will continue to be the top sources of funding for higher education. One area that is often overlooked in the overall funding for higher education is the more than $200 million per year that comes to North Dakota in the form of research and grant funds. [...]
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Causes Research & Reports
Higher Education: Keeping ND at the Top of the Class

State university system grades are high on national curve for return on funding Over the past decade, the decreasing power of the U.S. dollar and the increasing costs of a college education has left parents and students worried about how they’ll bare the financial burden of postsecondary education. In the meantime, complex legislation at both the state and national level presents an annual struggle with the challenges of appropriating funding across all sectors of the economy. But those on the [...]
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Causes Research & Reports
Funding Our Future: Challenges and Opportunities for K-12 Education

by Kate Henne, Today’s Giving Society. Economy. Technology. Diversity. Across the multitude of factors that affect primary and secondary school needs across the nation, the only constant is change itself. While the economic downturn of recent years has strained funding for kids in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12), it’s by no means the only budget challenge, and both public and private schools are increasingly trying to meet growing demands with shrinking resources. A study of U.S. students ages 16-18 between [...]
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