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The Obama Administration's proposals to reduce the charitable tax deduction for wealthy households and to increase the marginal income tax rates they pay would, by themselves, have a modest negative effect on itemized charitable giving, according to a new study conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and sponsored by Campbell and Company.

A new, one-of-a-kind searchable database will help high net worth individuals and their financial advisors decide where, when and why to give philanthropic gifts of $1 million or more. The Million Dollar List (www.milliondollarlist.org) is the largest free record of publicly reported gifts of this size made since 2000.

As the fourth quarter of 2011 begins—typically the most important time of year for fundraising—fewer than half of surveyed nonprofits reported fundraising increases during the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010.

Human services nonprofits� ability to meet their clients� needs will be strengthened by new research to be conducted by emerging scholars nationwide. The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University has awarded grants of $25,000 to 10 young scholars at universities around the U.S. who are studying human services philanthropy and nonprofit organizations.

Buoyed by gains in the health services and education sectors, employment and wages paid by Indiana nonprofit organizations increased steadily in recent years, according to a new report by Indiana University researchers.

CHICAGO, Ill. (June 20, 2011) – Giving USA Foundationâ„¢ and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, today announced that total charitable contributions from American individuals, corporations and foundations were an estimated $290.89 billion in 2010, up from a revised estimate of $280.30 billion for 2009. The 2010 estimate represents growth of 3.8 percent in current dollars and 2.1 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Robert L. Payton, an early leader in the movement to develop research about philanthropy and establish philanthropy as an academic field worthy of serious intellectual study, is being remembered for his pioneering leadership in the philanthropic sector.