This article reflects the experiences of two national nonprofits that help their member agencies evaluate and select software. YMCA of the USA is the national resource office for America's 2,671 neighborhood YMCAs. JCC Association. based in New York, is the umbrella organization for 350 independent Jewish Community Centers (“JCCs”), YM/WHAs, and their camps, in the U.S. and Canada. Although Y-USA and JCC Association collaborate informally on the initiatives described in this article, Y-USA and JCC Association are independent organizations with no formal relationship.

Buffett's boffo moment nearly equals the total donations recorded in the Slate 60 for the previous six years combined—$44.9 billion.

And so the second decade of the Slate 60 gets off to a roaring start. (Read a history of the list's first 10 years.) Gifts on the 2006 list total a record $50.5 billion, with $43.6 billion in pledges and just under $7 billion in paid gifts. To appear on the list, donors had to pony up at least $30 million to their favorite cause or causes, the highest cutoff since we started keeping track.

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