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Nonprofits provide a valuable communications and information sharing infrastructure alternative to commercial broadcast media through varied network of national, regional, and local community media outlets-- including public access cable, public broadcast television and radio, and increasingly through webcasting channels.

One hundred nonprofits and foundations joined forces in a friend of the court brief filed in federal District Court in support of four legal service programs in New York City, a private charity and pro bono attorney that are challenging advocacy restrictions on private dollars of legal service programs. The case, Dobbins v.

Some $212 billion in charitable giving was generated in 2001, a 0.5% rate of growth significantly lower than the 6% rate of growth in 2000, according to the 2002 edition of Giving USA, a publication of the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy, researched and written by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, released June 20. Arguably the most surprising news is that charitable giving centered around September 11th activities constituted less than 1% of all giving for the year.