Tag: donors
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Pink makes women donate less to breast-cancer causes: study
The Globe and Mail: Pink makes women donate less to breast-cancer causes: study When professor Stefano Puntoni set out to study the marketing power of pink, he and his fellow researchers expected to prove the rosy colour makes campaigns against women’s diseases, such as breast and ovarian cancer, more effective. After all, pink is often…
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Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010 (Campaign Contributors)
Source: Open Secrets I'm showing only the top 26 … those who gave more than $20 million. Look at all the pretty blue donkeys! 🙂 Of the top 100, only Amway, at #87, has three elephants beside it. (BTW: Anyone remember that 1992 movie "Sneakers" with Robert Redford? "Open Secrets" reminded me of CTEC Astronomy……
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The Challenges of Criticizing Aid
Social Edge: The Challenges of Criticizing Aid … As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the aid industry (and, yes, I definitely view it as an “industry”) is one of the few fields that tends to be immune to criticism. There are two groups of people who are particularly sensitive to hearing about the failures of…