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The Motley Fool June 29, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Donate Organs, Save Money Donating organs is an easier decision than you might think. By donating a body, there's usually no need to buy a casket or cemetery plot, or to pay for cremation.
The Motley Fool October 12, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Donate Organs, Save Money Do the right thing -- for humanity and your heirs' wallets.
BusinessWeek December 26, 2005 Catherine Arnst	Check A Box And Save A Life Several European nations have switched to an opt-out, or presumed consent, system for organ donation. An opt-out system in the U.S. would almost certainly pull donor numbers up significantly, and Congress could save tens of thousands of lives by passing such a law
Nursing Management June 2012 Atwood et al.	Organ Donor Considerations Many nurse managers are familiar with the organ donation protocols used in their medical facility, but most are unaware of the legal framework under which organ donation is conducted and the complex network of government and private agencies that support organ procurement and transplantation.
CRM May 2012 Judith Aquino	Vermont Gets a Boost in Organ Donor Registrants Social Life helps state harness the power of social media.
Reason May 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Free Ride Vermont State Representatives have introduced a controversial bill offering to wave the driver's license renewal fees of residents who become organ donors.
AFP eWire January 24, 2012	Making Online Giving Easier and More Fun While many organizations understand that it is important to have a prominent "donate" button on their website, it's just as important to pay attention to what happens after they click that button.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2014 Mary Stark-Hood	Donation of Stock to Charitable Organizations As the year-end approaches, many individuals are making decisions on final charitable contributions.
Managed Care December 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	The Organ Trail: Matching Supply, Demand You can buy just about anything on the Internet these days -- including lifesaving body parts. Where do we draw the line?
Reason March 2007 Kerry Howley	Who Owns Your Body Parts? In the U.S., demand for human tissue has never been higher, and human remains have never been more valuable. Everyone's making money in the market for body tissue -- except the donors.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2006 Mary Dalrymple	Give It All Away Some alternative ways to bestow your riches on a deserving charity.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2014 Mary Stark-Hood	Real Estate: A Valuable Charitable Gift Donating real estate to a charity can benefit the donor by lowering transfer expenses, reducing capital gains taxes, and providing charitable deductions at the federal and sometimes the state level, depending on state law.
American Journal of Nursing May 2011 Beach et al.	Organ Donation After Circulatory Death: Vital Partnerships The case of a woman in her mid-50's who sustained extensive brain injury in an accident but wasn't declared brain dead.
Reason June 2008 Kerry Howley	Kidneys for Sale The Iranians have managed to do something American policy makers have long thought impossible: They've found kidneys for every single citizen in need.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Side of Valves, Hold the Bacon Someday, organs from pigs may save human lives. But solving the genetic engineering problems is turning out to be tricky.
AFP eWire June 21, 2004	House Passes Jobs Bill with New Vehicle Donation Rules The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a provision that would require donors to obtain an independent appraisal of their vehicle before donating it to charity.
Salon.com December 8, 2000 Jenna Glatzer	A genetic death sentence Doctors routinely deny heart transplants to the mentally retarded...
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2013 Mary Stark Hood	Real Estate Gifting Realized: Business Opportunities for Real Estate Professionals Commercial real estate professionals and their clients should consider all options when discussing the charitable donation of real property.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Wired March 2003 Jennifer Kahn	Stripped for Parts Organ transplants are a brutal business. Just ask the donors. Our reporter spends a dark night with the living dead.
AFP eWire July 20, 2010	Selling Cars and Selling Your Cause Many nonprofits today are still asking for donations as if they were selling a Model T, even as donors have grown far more discerning in the face of a barrage of appeals.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2014 Mary Stark Hood	Real Estate Gifting Realized: Donors, Charitable Organizations, Education, and Chapter Involvement Commercial real estate professionals and their clients should consider all options when discussing the charitable donation of real property.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	5 Questions How America's under-performance in higher education can be linked to a lack of accountability in educational philanthropy, and how the financial services industry can do to help.
AFP eWire April 15, 2014	How To Get Big Donations -- Through Your iPhone! Philip King of Cornerstone Group of Companies talks to us about big mobile donations and how integrating fundraising channels is a key step in getting more donations!
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Creating the Body's Microenvironment to Grow Artificial Organs Scientists are using micro-electromechanical systems to grow artificial organs.
AFP eWire	Ipsos Reid fact sheets on "What Canadian donors want" available for download Seven in ten Canadians say they have made a financial donation to charity or a non-profit organization in the past twelve months.
AFP eWire February 18, 2015 Jamie Lehman	Top 5 Big Data Fundraising Myths Today, your competition wants to understand your donors better than you do. So, if you look at it this way, Big Data is how you're both going to get there.
AFP eWire May 19, 2008	Market Volatility Calls for Long-Term Approach to Donating Securities Donors waiting for just the right time to donate their stocks to charity will be waiting a long time and instead should focus on a longer-term "investor" approach to giving.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Do Charitable Fundraising Right Finding donors is essential for the success of your charity. Once you've done the hard work of finding them, make sure you treat them well by giving them everything they need to obtain the tax benefits they deserve.
Salon.com August 25, 2000 Jay Dixit	Designer eggs This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2013 Mary Stark Hood	Real Estate Gifting Realized: Outright Donations and Bequests This second article in a series on real estate gifting issues covers outright donations, various requirements for a donation to be tax deductible, and bequests.
HBS Working Knowledge September 12, 2012 Carmen Nobel	The Weird Link Between Cadavers and Careers A person's career choice can be an indicator of how they will respond to other major life choices. A study seeking to identify couples that are more likely to donate their bodies to science, so donors could be recruited more efficiently, found that career choice is a significant predictor.
Managed Care May 2002 Marlene Piturro	Wearing Black Hats ... Again Simplistic, for sure. But a movie pitting a man with modest income against the big bad managed care plan has drawn attention to the enormous cost of transplants and the difficulty of matching organs and recipients
AFP eWire September 7, 2010	Focus on Impact, Not Transactions, for Better Donation Pages A well-crafted page will help seal the deal; one that focuses solely on the transaction will be transparent and uninspiring.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006	Giving Stock to Charity In addition to doing good, your donation can also nab you some tax benefits.
Science News September 1, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Kidney Matchmaking A new method of matching patients and donors could make transplants possible for thousands more.
AFP eWire July 24, 2006	IRS Releases Data on Noncash Charitable Contributions For the first time, the IRS has gathered information about noncash charitable contributions, including type of gifts, donor demographics and which organizations were most likely to receive noncash contributions.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2013 Mary Stark Hood	Real Estate Gifting Realized: Retained Life Estates A retained life interest, or retained life estate as it is commonly called, allows a donor to claim a charitable deduction at the present time for the gift of the remainder value of real property donated to charity.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2012 Mary Stark Hood	Real Estate Gifting Realized Real Estate Gifting Realized, the new program launched by the Education Foundation of the CCIM Institute, facilitates the donation of real estate to charitable organizations.
AFP eWire June 29, 2010	Wise Giving? Most Donors Spend Little Time Researching Charities Only about one third of donors surveyed recently said that they did any research before donating to a charity, and those that did looked at overhead ratios above all else.
Scientific American February 2007 Marguerite Holloway	Graft and Host, Together Forever Thomas E. Starzl pioneered organ transplantation with antirejection drugs, an approach he hopes to end through a phenomenon called microchimerism
The Motley Fool December 15, 2004	Give Stock, Not Cash Tax advantages can make donating stock instead of cash to charity very worthwhile. Here's how it works, if you're thinking of donating some stock.
AFP eWire January 28, 2015	Technology: Fundraisers and Donors Not Yet on the Same Page Give Central, a web-based donation platform, reports on the disconnect between the increasing ability and eagerness of nonprofits to take advantage of rapidly evolving technology -- and the reluctance of donors to take advantage of the same
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2014 Mary Stark Hood	Charitable Donations of Life Insurance Life insurance is often overlooked as a gifting option when individuals are considering gifts to charities, but it can be an effective way to provide a charity with funds for future work.
HBS Working Knowledge November 28, 2011 Dennis Fisher	Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives.
HBS Working Knowledge January 30, 2006 Manda Salls	Looking Behind Bad Decisions Harvard professor Max Bazerman explores how psychological science helps explain how leaders' decision making is influenced by such forces as parochialism, nationalism, and dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2005 Roy Lewis	Share the Wealth Donating money to worthy causes is wonderful, but you'll get even more tax advantages if you donate appreciated stock instead. Here's how it works.
HBS Working Knowledge November 5, 2009 Michel Anteby	A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name? Addressing the shortage of cadavers for medical education and training, Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby discusses issues around establishing a market for cadavers.
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