The ''Philanthropy Journal'' is an online

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that delivers news, resources and opinion on matters relating to

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s. The journal offers a free website and email newsletters, nonprofit job postings, professional-development

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s, and resource listings. In addition to regular news coverage, it publishes information on trends, research, and resources relevant to nonprofits.

History

The ''Philanthropy Journal'' was started in 2010. It has been a program of the Institute for Nonprofits at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats, seat of Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County in the United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, second-most ...

since 2012. The program coordinator for the journal is Sandra Cyr. Until 30 June 2012 the journal was edited by Todd Cohen, a former

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and business editor for ''

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'', who in 1991 began writing a weekly

philanthropy Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

column for that

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. The ''Philanthropy Journal'' is published on a weekly basis.

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